Etiket: Composer
Tijl Beckand for NPO in the footsteps of composer Wagner. ‘A visionary with an unpleasant character’
Tijl Beckand (49) listened to the music of world-famous composer Richard Wagner for no less than 224 hours, in preparation for the 6-part series Tijl in the footsteps of Richard…
Paul McCartney once sang the “Mario” theme tune for the composer — Music Rolling Stone
In an interview regarding his work for the Nintendo world around “Mario,” composer Koji Kondo revealed that many years ago he was able to experience a private performance of his…
Pippi Longstocking composer Georg Riedel has died
Georg Riedel, who composed music for Astrid Lindgren’s films, has died. Georg Riedel has died at the age of 90. Photo from 2009. PDO Swedish composer and jazz musician Georg…
How a forgotten Surinamese composer is back in the spotlight today
This week the Concertgebouw Orchestra will play the opera by the Surinamese composer Johannes Helstone for the first time. A great man of his time, but virtually unknown in the…
The Russian composer Shostakovich did not sympathize with Stalin, as is often thought. The Netherlands Wind Ensemble gives him the honor he deserves
The Russian composer Dmitry Shostakovich was a tragic man, caught between Stalin’s dictatorship and the Western ‘art mafia’ that accused him of collaboration. The Netherlands Wind Ensemble plays an arrangement…
A composer who worked for BTS takes his own life at 41
El productor y compositor estadounidense Bram Inscore, conocido por trabajar junto a figuras como BTS y Troye Sivan, se suicidó a los 41 años en San Francisco, California. En un…
Anne-Maartje Lemereis is the new Composer Laureate
Anne-Maartje Lemereis (1989) will be the Composer Laureate for the next two years. This was announced on Thursday evening in TivoliVredenburg in Utrecht. The composer of the country of the…
The Jussen brothers flame in mythical dream flight by Turkish composer Fazıl Say
They seem to be in a trance behind the piano: eyes closed, their heads swaying to the music, slightly turned away from each other. As if they are lost in…
Composer Tom Kristiaan inspires with music on…
Wouter Pattyn’s nature photos are in themselves a feast for the eyes. And now composer and pianist Tom Kristiaan has set these pearls of nature in Europe to music. ‘Inspired…
Songs in Gaelic and Irish bagpipes: the English baroque composer Purcell ‘goes Celtic’ at the NBE
Wooden bar with bar stools, pub tables and chairs, and those cute café table lamps made of colored glass. There’s even one in the wing. A large wooden room with…