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February 26, 2005
Missed (with a chance for a rebound)
I missed the Hans Koolmees premiere tonight in the Amsterdam Concertgebouw. Something I pity, because of the interview I read in Het Parool (Dutch, pay site) and the Volkskrant (Dutch, pay site). But Monday I will have a chance for a rebound.
He says, as a composer, he wants to reconnect again with society, after being marginalized by too abstract an attitude many composers display and shortsighted politicians cutting budgets.
His new work As time goes by is dedicated to his parents show both died within a week while he was writing this piece.
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