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Asko|Schönberg in the NTR Saturday matinee - Around Unsuk Chin

Wereldpremière van de jonge componist Thomas van Dun geschreven in opdracht van Asko|Schönberg, meesterpianist Pierre-Laurent Aimard in het Pianoconcert van György Ligeti en Unsuk Chin vindt haar inspiratie op straat. In 2008 en 2009 bezocht de Koreaanse componiste Unsuk Chin Hongkong en Guangzhou. De sfeer van de oude woonwijken met hun smalle, kronkelende steegjes, marktplaatsen en voedselverkopers deed haar denken… 

Aan de Leidse Universiteit gloort het einde van het patriarchaat. 

Dit weekend was er enige ophef op Twitter. Iets met een Nazi-vergelijking die niet helemaal lekker uitpakte. Nu is er best wel vaak ophef op Twitter vanwege een nazi-vergelijking die niet helemaal lekker uitpakt, maar dit keer betrof het toch één van onze culturele boegbeelden. Kees Vlaardingerbroek, artistiek leider van de NTR Zaterdagmatinee en voormalig hoofd programmering van het Rotterdamse… 

Met een hecht team win je de wereldcup. Hoe het Holland Festival dit jaar alle cynici de mond snoerde.

Het Holland Festival van 2019 was het beste in decennia. In ieder geval in de 25 jaar die ik er bewust van mee heb gekregen kan ik mij geen nationaal festival herinneren dat zoveel impact koppelde aan zoveel prestige. Of bezoekerstargets al of niet gehaald zijn, zal me daarbij een zorg zijn. Het is, zoals Volkskrant-collega Hein Janssen ooit opmerkte,… 

Naked men and black bronzing under philosophical veneer. Is Angelica Liddell overshooting the mark with The Scarlet Letter? (Why the Holland Festival can expect a riot)

That you cannot shamelessly treat a black man as a rutting primal beast and a faceless object for your unlimited lust fantasy as a white woman? Seems logical to me, but for Angélica Liddell, world-renowned performance artist, it is typical of the new puritanism that threatens free art. She now brings The Scarlet Letter to the Netherlands, a theatrical performance that is rather... 

Music publicist Maarten Brandt: 'For one note from Mahler's Ninth, I would give the gift of Shostakovich's entire oeuvre'

Sounding Alchemy, is the name of the chunky volume recently published by music publicist Maarten Brandt (1953). It has 715 pages, including illustrations and an extensive index. In 98 articles, Brandt unfolds his views on music and music programming. He dedicated the beautifully designed book to Marius Flothuis, whom he admired and who was programmer of the Concertgebouw Orchestra for many years. His heirs received a first copy during... 

Programmer to talk: Astrid in 't Veld's dream season

When you go to a concert, you think about the music, the ensemble, the soloist and/or the conductor. Maybe you look up something about the composer but you never think about the programmer who made the concert possible. Astrid in 't Veld is someone who thinks about the range of concerts on offer years in advance in order to help you with... 

Depraved souls in dark times - baroque opera in Saturday Matinee

Baroque specialist and conductor Andrea Marcon, together with his La Cetra Barockorchester, manages to weave a fine lace work in Vivaldi's opera seria Catone in Utica (1678 - 1741), on which, among others, German soprano Anett Fritsch, Swedish mezzo-soprano Ann Hallenberg and striking Italian mezzo-soprano Francesca Ascioti shine like precious jewels. The international cast of Catone in Utica... 

Welcome back to Amsterdam Huang Ruo!

Zaterdag 13 december presenteert de NTR Zaterdagmatinee de wereldpremière van Unscrolled voor piano en orkest van de Chinees-Amerikaanse componist Huang Ruo (Hainan, 1976), met de pianist Emanuele Arciuli en het Residentie Orkest onder leiding van Emilio Pomàrico. Hiermee start zijn drie maanden durende verblijf als composer in residence van het Amsterdamse Concertgebouw. Ruo is de eerste die deze eer te… 

Composer Henryk Górecki: art or kitsch?

This Saturday, 14 February 2015, Reinbert de Leeuw will conduct the Radio Philharmonic Orchestra in Polish composer Henryk Górecki's (1933-2010) Fourth Symphony at the NTR Saturday matinee. Górecki established his name overnight in 1992, when the CD of his Third Symphony shot to the top of the classical charts like a flare. The recording of this Symphony... 

Reinbert de Leeuw defies limits of orchestra in Saturday Matinee

Reinbert de Leeuw turned seventy-five last September, but already in May the VPRO honoured him with three full-length broadcasts on Radio 4. Together with Aad van Nieuwkerk, I made a selection from his finest recordings of Kagel, Ustvolskaya and Louis Andriessen, among others, about which I also let him speak. This was followed in September by a real Reinbert festival and his own magazine. The magazine not only highlighted him... 

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