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Marjolijn Vencken new chair of supervisory board Culture+Enterprise

Marjolijn Vencken wordt per 1 juli de nieuwe voorzitter van de raad van toezicht van Cultuur+Ondernemen, het kennisplatform voor ondernemerschap in de culturele sector. Ze volgt Steven de Waal op, die na de volle termijn van acht jaar afscheid neemt van zijn voorzitterschap. Marjolijn Vencken is al sinds 2015 lid van de raad van toezicht. Als ervaren Public Affairs adviseur… 

Museum directors: is their role as figureheads and media artists becoming more important than as art history experts?

Dutch museums, partly due to the recent digital Museum Week, have been able to retain a large part of their audience. There is - reports the Museum Association on its website - a slight turnover though. And the hitherto loyal public will not find their way to museums automatically and to the same extent. But the picture is that the... 

Mattijs van der Woerd hopes to sing again one day, but is especially happy that Splendor is making music again

Muzikantenvereniging Splendor heeft de coronacrisis tot nu toe overleefd, ondanks het feit dat de twee zalen niet gebruikt konden worden, repetitieruimtes vervielen en de bar niet open kon. Mattijs van der Woerd, bariton, vertelt erover in onze podcast/video. Hoe dat kan, zo’n klein concertgebouw dat zo sterk staat? Het geheim, dat ook Cultuurpers overeind houdt, en dat deze maand ook… 

New leaders in arts and culture: fourth generation of LinC graduates.

A new generation of leaders in culture rose at the Utrecht Academy Building on Thursday 9 November. The 39 leaders come from the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam to Schunck in Heerlen and from the VPRO in Hilversum to the Utrecht festival Le Guess Who. In a year and a half, they discovered new working methods and formulated new vistas for the arts. That could ... 

Holland Festival blames itself with Orphanage of Music #HF17

The Orphanage of Dutch Music presents monthly 'forgotten Dutch masterpieces' at Amsterdam's Splendor stage. 'To discover the finer points', these are performed twice, interrupted by 'a short commentary or interview with special table guests'. On paper, a golden formula. Rightly so, the Holland Festival adopted three episodes. With the music, during the opening concert on Thursday, it was all in... 

Order, peace and disorder in the Orphanage #HF17

Roaring programmers announce new compositions: "World premiere!" jubilate the posters. Superb, but in contemporary music practice, that primal performance is often immediately the last. The score goes into an archive folder. The notes fall silent; the roar falls silent. The Orphanage takes care of those forgotten works. Context David Dramm snatches such pieces from oblivion and presents them with context at the Orphanage 

Why we're losing more and more music thanks to 'digital' #HF17

For new music, the primal performance is often also immediately the last time a piece is played. The scores await the archive or dusty drawer; recordings are nowhere to be found. David Dramm searches for these gems of stilted notes. He presents them in the Holland Festival's Orphanage: three evenings of forgotten compositions from the rich... 

Splendor Amsterdam presents the Splendor Parade 2017

On Saturday 14 January 2017 at 16.30, Splendor will present Splendor Parade 2017 at CASCO Amsterdam. During this afternoon, Splendor members and non-members will be able to marvel at the diverse group of Splendor musicians and their musical friends, who will show and perform in the most diverse ways. Splendor is taking it even bigger this year with its own SplendOpeRa: prepared... 

Cello Biënnale vol hoogtepunten: ‘Cellisten zijn nu eenmaal aardige mensen’

Het ronkt, zoemt, zingt, zaagt en gonst niet langer in het het Muziekgebouw aan ‘t IJ. De cellokaravaan is vertrokken. De zesde editie van de Cello Biënnale Amsterdam zit erop en laat bij de duizenden cello- en muziekfans een gevoel van leegte achter. Nergens anders speelt zich in tien dagen tijd zo’n geweldig cellofeest af, waar het publiek zich van… 

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What goes around comes around: Maarten Ornstein wrote a song for us! #ackler

'Write about that!' How many times have I heard or read that as a cultural journalist. From very good and interesting people, of course. People who make beautiful things, too. But also people who assume that I, as a writer on a website, will therefore immediately hop on a train to a remote corner of the country... 

Het effect van Marciniak en Omega Impact

Grzegorz Marciniak, een muziekmaker die het volgen waard is. En dat doe ik sinds 2006. Toen zag en hoorde ik zijn werk voor het eerst in Den Haag uitgevoerd door het toenmalige Woof-collectief.  Ik maakte contact, het klikte. In 2007 ging Picca in première. Een werk dat Marciniak voor ondergetekende schreef (blokfluit-solo). En ook bij mijn meest recente ervaring, februari… 

Eline van Ark makes dance not to watch especially

Those who go to a dance performance want to enjoy beautiful movements, expression, movement composition and a fine stage setting, wrapped in music or a soundscape. But there is something, which is always overlooked: the sound of dance itself. Dancer and choreographer Eline van Ark discovered that this forgotten aspect holds great richness and subtle expressiveness. The sound... 

Amsterdam Prize 2015, local celebration of artists with international allure

In het Amsterdamse Compagnietheater werd gisteravond de Amsterdamprijs van het Amsterdamse Fonds voor de Kunst uitgereikt. Een 020 feestje dus, waar ‘tout kunst en cultuur’ feestelijk opgedoft aantrad om de eigen culturele pareltjes in het zonnetje te zetten. De Bijbelse stortregen buiten weerhield AFK directeur Clayde Menzo geenszins ervan een zonnig toekomstbeeld te schetsen van het Amsterdamse culturele leven in 2020. Oude… 

Vogelgekwetter in plaats van wraak

Zaterdag 6 december start de eerste editie van de Muziektheaterdagen, de opvolger van het jaarlijkse Babelfestival. Om het werk van jonge makers te presenteren sloegen het Ostadetheater en productiekern Diamantfabriek opnieuw de handen ineen, voor een programma dat naast wereldpremières van professionele makers flitsoptredens biedt van conservatoriumstudenten. Ook vindt de maandelijkse Salon van Splendor plaats in het Ostadetheater. Rode draad… 

Strauss with muscle by Gustavo Dudamel, the sizzling South American. #hf12

The young conductor of Venezuelan descent brought his Simón Bolívar Symphony Orchestra to the Concertgebouw for the final concert of the Holland Festival last night for the first time. While Hollanders braved the tropical weather in the corridors, Venezuelan beauties walked to the stage vivaciously on their stilettos. After Máxima and Willem-Alexander had also taken their seats on the balcony, Gustavo Dudamel came dancing down the stairs.

Record amount of donations for New York Metropolitan Opera, but ticket sales down for years

The New York Times reports that the Metropolitan Opera in New York has brought in record donations this fiscal year. The tally stands at $182 million. This is 50 per cent more than the previous year. However, revenue from ticket sales has been declining for a few years. In addition, since general manager Peter Gelb took office, spending patterns have been soaring.... 

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