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Hundreds of pre-vocational secondary education students control Metropole Orchestra during Game in Concert
At least 246 pre-vocational secondary education students visited the Broadcasting Music Center in Hilversum today. During the event called Game in Concert, young people could control the Metropole Orchestra in…
Jan Böhmermann is going on tour with the Ehrenfeld Radio Dance Orchestra in 2025
The satirist, presenter and musician is now going on his fourth live tour with the dance orchestra. In addition to his satirical monologues about socially relevant topics, Jan Böhmermann also…
‘Maestro’ candidates ready for concert with concert orchestra De Herleving in Zwaag
In the cultural center De Plataan in Zwaag, the three winners of a ‘Maestro’ lot have been busy rehearsing with the wind orchestra De Herleving in recent weeks. Tuesday evening…
TV review | This is what a Russian revolution sounds like in the Concertgebouw Orchestra
The television critic and the news avoider in me are currently fighting tenaciously for space. Usually duty wins, so I do watch the talk shows. Every presenter always has his…
While the orchestra plays, Eno ‘weeps’ for the dead in Gaza
Brian Eno’s music falls into two categories: he has albums to his name with idiosyncratic songs, pop music but unusual, and he is considered the inventor of ‘ambient music’: slow,…
North Netherlands Orchestra turns Tchaikovsky inside out for a new audience
Pianist and comedian Mike Boddé has found an ingenious way to prove that – at least in English spelling – composer Pyotr Ilytch Tchaykovsky was destined to become a melancholic…
Review: The Cinematic Orchestra :: MAN WITH A MOVIE CAMERA (20TH ANNIVERSARY EDITION)
The highest of emotions on a musical plateau – 20 years ago the British created a somnambulistic, experimental soundtrack for a silent film classic. I missed this record in 2003…
Young Bruggeling opens the Concertgebouw season as conductor of the Flanders Symphony Orchestra
A very remarkable concert last night in the Concertgebouw in Bruges. Bruges native Martijn Dendievel opens the new season as conductor of the Flanders Symphony Orchestra. He is 28 years…
Timo Rautiainen is the new soloist of the Leavings orchestra
The music of Leevi and the Leavings plays again with a new line-up. Timo Rautiainen joins the Leavings orchestra as soloist. Gösta Sundqvist also lives on strong in the minds…
The Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra sings about the transformative power of love in an unorthodox season opening
At the season opening of a symphony orchestra you expect, well, symphonic music. Some highlights from the repertoire, perhaps interspersed with a handful of arias. Things were different at the…