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March 10, 2005
Music communicates, does it?
Last night ensemble De Volharding concluded a concert in Felix Meritis with Steve Reich's City Life in an arrangement by Anthony Fiumara.
For some part of the audience I know the program must have been hard. Before they reached City Life they had to endure -according to Hague School conventions 'untermusik'- works like Cheese Cake by Jacob ter Veldhuis and Morgen by Gerard Beljon.
The aftermath at the bar was just as intriguing as the concert itself.
Who was talking to who and who was politely neglecting someone else.
Whoever said music was about music? Or more specific, are concerts about music? No, it is always the social event around it that counts. Music merely is a catalyst that keeps the process going, where it comes in handy to deeply understand it.
So I enjoyed an all entertaining evening with hotshots like Louis Andriesen en Jacob ter Veldhuis in one room.
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