According to VARAgids boss Roy van Vilsteren, all those politicians who want to cut back on the NPO, such as Geert Wilders, should take a look at Jamai Loman. “A moving viewing experience.”
Jamai Loman has amazed many people with his talent for conducting. He managed to win the celebrity show Maestro with flying colors. And this is precisely an example of a program why you need the NPO, says VARAgids editor-in-chief Roy van Vilsteren. He cannot imagine that NPO-critical politicians have watched this.
Detour
Roy himself did look. “As a child, Lomas was so fascinated by leading an orchestra that he walked through the streets of Schoonhoven with a stick.”
“Such a detour to yourself, to a life as a conductor. And we who were able to follow that life all those years — that makes Maestro a moving viewing experience.”
Wilders
Politicians like Geert Wilders should take a look at this, Roy thinks. “Have all the right-wing politicians who were so nasty on the NPO last week seen one episode of Maestro? It’s hard to believe.”
“The program once again shows what public broadcasting is capable of: more than a million people see an orchestra playing classical pieces that many viewers are hearing for the first time – I am one of them.”
