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The Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra - Play Dutch with me

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Celia Swart REFLECTIONS (OPDRACHTCOMPOSITIE) Louis Andriessen TAPDANCE Theo Loevendie FLEXIO Bram Kortekaas NIEUW WERK (OPDRACHTCOMPOSITIE) Tristan Keuris MOVEMENTS https://www.concertgebouworkest.nl/en/concert/dutch-music-in-1980-and-now

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The Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra - Play Dutch with me
The Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra - Play Dutch with me

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04 dec 2020, 21:15

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About the event

In its innovative Horizon Series, the Concertgebouworkest is presenting Play Dutch with me. Antony Hermus is conducting orchestral works by Dutch composers. All week long, home-grown chamber music is being performed.

Play Dutch with me

Dutch composers are well thought of internationally. On the Horizon programme Play Dutch with me, Antony Hermus will be conducting works by Dutch composers written forty years ago alongside new works by the young composers Celia Swart and Bram Kortekaas. What’s the current state of home-grown music? The Dutch compositional world is in flux, as is the Concertgebouworkest itself. Three Dutch soloists also feature here as tastemakers: soprano Katrien Baerts, harpist Remy van Kesteren and percussionist Dominique Vleeshouwer.

Dutch music in 1980 and now

Forty years ago Flexio, a work composed by Theo Loevendie for the Concertgebouworkest, was considered too demanding, while the orchestra performed Keuris’s Movements, criticised as being too conservative, on tour. Do…

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