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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…
‘Jelle turned Warenhuis Vanderveen into a symphony orchestra’
Jelle Vanderveen has passed away, his family has announced. He was best known as director of Warenhuis Vanderveen in the heart of Assen, a position he held in the 1970s,…
Breakthrough in astronomy: Scientists hear our universe humming for the first time. “They listen with dead stars to a cosmic symphony” | Science & Planet
15 years… that’s how long it took astronomers to hear our universe hum for the first time. They succeeded by using large telescopes and dead stars. Hundreds of scientists from…
Roger Waters live in Berlin: Symphony of Horror
On the day of the concert there is still a bit of symbolic politics. The new Berlin Senator for Culture, Joe Chialo (CDU), condemned Waters’ appearance in a press release:…
German symphony orchestra with a lot of female power
In the future, there will also be many women at the conductor’s podium at the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester (symbolic image) Photo: picture alliance/dpa By Martina Hafner The ensemble relies on female…
Modern symphony orchestras can also perform a beautifully intimate St Matthew Passion
Bach’s Matthew Passion turns out to be a living body with countless forms and appearances with every performance: a play of darkness and light, stillness and popular anger, drama and…
His First Symphony is finally performed – but he himself suffers from tinnitus and hears ‘vacuum cleaners’
Composer Joey Roukens.Statue Judith Jockel When Joey Roukens (40), a pharmacist’s son from Vlaardinger-Ambacht, was 10 years old, he received a book as a gift. The great symphonies it was…
Mahler’s fourth symphony pops into your ears ★★★★
How a predominantly sun-drenched work can be totally overwhelming. Conductor François-Xavier Roth succeeds with his orchestra Les Siècles; the Fourth Symphony by Gustav Mahler pops into your ears. With its…