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Muziekgebouw aan 't IJ

Desdemona in black and white

by Thea Derks
13 June 20138 July 2016
3 min read
ACTUAL, Holland Festival, MUSIC

Is the kingdom of the dead in the opera Sunken Garden by Michel van der Aa a 3D garden full of brilliant colour, director Peter Sellars chooses in Desdemona by Toni Morrison and Rokia Traoré for sober black and white. On the stage of a sold-out Muziekgebouw aan 't IJ are glass bottles and jars, sometimes lit from below, sometimes from above, with hanging light bulbs like flickering candles. On the left are a number of ngonis (Malian lute) and two koras (Malian harp lute), played by black musicians.

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November Music focuses on multimedia

by Thea Derks
9 November 20122 April 2022
3 min read
For members only, MUSIC

's Hertogenbosch 9-11-2012 - November Music was successfully kicked off last Wednesday and also focuses on multimedia in its twentieth edition. The duo Strijbos & Van Merwijk has been there before and that afternoon received the Prins Bernhardcultuurprijs Noord-Brabant, presented by former Concertgebouw director Martijn Sanders. In the evening, their multimedia show Cross Avenue, created for the American string quartet ETHEL, attracted many audiences, the two performances of Cloud-Messenger by Fred...

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Marion von Tilzer wins Women's Composition Prize MCN with Rote Schuhe

by Thea Derks
8 October 20128 July 2016
4 min read
ACTUAL, MUSIC

Amsterdam, 8 October 2012 During the well-attended Classical Music Day at the Muziekgebouw aan 't IJ the prize winners of the competition for women composers were announced this afternoon. The day was organised for the 11th time by Music centre Netherlands (MCN), which will cease to exist on 1 January. Thanks to an anonymous bequest, explicitly intended for women composers, three prizes could be awarded.

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Successful Holland Festival closes record edition amid uncertainty over future

by one of our members
26 June 20118 July 2016
3 min read
ACTUAL

Photo: Pierre Nydegger To conclude. The 2011 Holland Festival could well be historic. Not only was it the festival that attracted the most audiences for years, it was also the festival that took place while a minority government of populists, nationalists and materialists proclaimed the end of art subsidies. We therefore look back on a festival in which we were able to meet with...

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A few solid misses, interspersed with plenty of indispensable beauty in week 3 of the Holland Festival #hf11

by one of our members
20 June 201113 February 2019
4 min read
Holland Festival, SPECIALS

The Dodo was busy, this third week of the Holland Festival. Thankfully, again with an exciting mix of beautiful, weird and extraordinary. As it should be, really. What makes the Holland Festival all the more exciting is that such extremes can sometimes take place within one programme, as with the National Ballet, or even within one performance, as with The Russians...

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#HF11 Dreamy cult pop and visual feast from The Irrepressibles

by one of our members
18 June 201130 March 2022
3 min read
For members only, Holland Festival, SPECIALS

The Irrepressibles with their Human Music Box. Photo Patricia Niven At the request of the Holland Festival, Jamie McDermott of The Irrepressibles created a new programme: Human Music Box. The ten-piece British band will start its world tour in Amsterdam. The premiere on Friday 17 June at the Muziekgebouw aan 't IJ became an understated, musical evening that was especially visually appealing. In...

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