Film // Music // Visual Art // Theatre // Literature
door Carmen van Bruggen
Het stuk The Fever van het theatergezelschap 600 HIGHWAYMEN – dat in tegenstelling tot wat de naam doet verwachten slechts bestaat uit het makersduo en echtpaar Michael Silverstone en Abigail Browde – heeft een gezellige aftrap. Continue reading “Groepsgevoel”
This registration of the Second Symphony by Johannes Brahms (1833–1897) comes with a special gimmick: the performance of the entire piece has been filmed in one single shot. Continue reading “Would You Like To Fly Through an Orchestra?”
By Jeroen van Gessel
Groningen University
‘This is the world’s most precious commodity. We need to control as much of it as we can.’ Thus spoke Dominic Greene, the bad guy from Quantum of Solace, while taking in a performance of Tosca. He wasn’t talking about the opera, however, but about water and that’s as close as classical music and water ecology have ever gotten in the public imagination. Continue reading “Classical music meets Ecology: Hélène Grimaud’s new album Water”
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