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October 15, 2006
Sofia Gubaidulina
Sofia Gubaidulina gives directions
to Pauline Post (Photo RV)Muziekgebouw aan het IJ had its doors open this afternoon for a public rehearsal in attendance of composer Sofia Gubaidulina. A good occasion to sniff the atmosphere and take some snapshots.
It is highly entertaining and educative to see some colleagues at work, like pianist Pauline Post getting directions how to perform some bars in Rubaiyat, or see Sofia Gubaidulina and bassoonist Stafanie Liedtke worry about a crescendo and decrescendo in Hommage à T.S. Eliot without losing or adding tones in a particular multiphonic.
This evening is the last of a small Gubaidulina festival in Amsterdam. Coming week she will be in Groningen where new music organization Prime and het Noord Nederlands Orkest are responsible for a five day festival about Gubaidulina and Heiner Goebbels.
Posted by Renske at 18:43 UTC | permanent link
October 14, 2006
The art of engraving music
Scanning through the Sibelius forums I ran into this link about music engraving. As a mere mortal using software for musicnotation, I take a bow in deep respect for the skills shown in this 7 minute film clip.
Posted by Renske at 14:12 UTC | permanent link
October 7, 2006
Wind and rain
Sound garden Kampen (Photo RV)One of the fun things of carillon concerts is that circumstances aren't always predicable. In Gdansk we had ideal conditions, but when Frans Haagen performed Square Prayer last night in Kampen at the opening concert of the Beiaardfestival (Dutch), the wind was blowing the sound away from the listening garden.
The audience (real diehards) where sheltering under their umbrellas and were offered a cup of coffee during the concert to keep warm.
Actually, I had a very good time. I went out to the main shopping street (the shops were open) and saw people pointing to the tower and dancing in the street on the carillon music.
In which classical concert halls does this happen!?
Posted by Renske at 17:46 UTC | permanent link
October 1, 2006
Organ festival
While I write this, in Utrecht the Klankkleurenfestival is coming to its conclusion with a performance of Stravinsky's Rite of Spring in a adaptation for organ. Earlier tonight I went to the first of two performances this evening where I witnessed an accompanying ballet that was completely obsolete in meaning.
To hear the Rite of Spring on the Marcussen-organ in the Nicolaï was a bit of a surprise. In general it worked quite well, although sometime the low registers had a habit of sounding muddy.
Speaking to Steven Taylor and Dick van Dijk who are part of the the festival organization, they told me it was a great success and many concerts were attended by more people than they had counted on. Even Swedish Radio came along to record a concert.
Posted by Renske at 21:24 UTC | permanent link