Newsletter July
/ August '14

Master your instrument

Master your Music

And then forget

all that bullshit

and play!

Charlie Parker (1920 -1955), jazz musician

Competition

This month you can win the CD 'Belgian Music for Alto Saxophone and Wind Band' with music by Maarten De Splenterm, Wouter Lenaerts and André Waignein.

The question last month was: What is the name of the group of composers that included Cyril Scott?? The correct answer was the Frankfurt Group and the winner was Dr. Walther Riessbeck from München. He wins the CD 'Songs of quest and inspiration' with songs by Cyrill Scott and Ralph Vaughan Williams.

This month's question

Who commissioned the first marching band in Belgium and in which year did that thake place?

What can you win?

This month you can win the CD 'Belgian Music for Alto Saxophone and Wind Band' with music by Maarten De Splenterm, Wouter Lenaerts and André Waignein performed by The Royal Symphonic Band of the Belgian Guides conducted by Yves Segers [Mirasound - WWM 500.183]. The
soloists are Pieter Pellens, Norbert Nozy and Kristof Kerremans.

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Festivals

Questions have been asked recently about the number of music festivals in the Netherlands. We don't see the problem as long as the quality remains high and they continue to attract enough people!

The Concertzender will be making recordings at the festivals listed below during
the summer.

Afrikafestival, Hertme
Saturday 5 and Sunday6 July

For more than 25 years, the most important African musicians have found their way to the pictoresque open-air theatre in Hertme for this exciting festival. This year
the line-up includes Habib Koité, Mamar Kassey, The Ghana Bigshots, Nancy Vieira, Debademba and may more.

Afrikafestival website

Peter the Great festival, Groningen, Drente
16 to 26 July

The Peter the Great Festival is the biggest chamber music festival in the north of the Netherlands with more than 20 concerts
during a period of 11 days.

Peter de Grote festival website

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CD of the month: Reinhold Friedl & Franck Vigroux; Tobel

Label: La Muse en Circuit / ALM 005

Our new producer Armeno Alberts (see: Introducing...) has chosen this month's CD.

The most recent CD on the label La Muse en Circuit, from the studio for electroacoustic music in Paris that was establishedby Luc Ferrari, was issued in February.

This is the fifth album on the label and includes the track 'TOBEL', the studio version of a live performance by Reinhold Friedl and Franck Vigroux, recorded during the Bruits Blancs #3 festival (Paris – Anis Gras, May 2013).

Reinhold Friedl, born in 1964, is a Berlin composer, pianist and sound-artist. He has become known especially as the founder and artistic director of Zeitkratzer, the awkward Berlin ensemble for contemporary music.
Friedl has played together with a number of celebrities including Lee Ranaldo, Merzbow and Phill Niblock. His own (solo) performances mainly involve sounds coming from the interior of the piano.

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Kirsty McGee in Acoustic Roots

The English singer-songwriter Kirsty McGee can be heard in Acoustic Roots on Friday18 July from 21.00 to 22.00.

For 20 years Kirsty McGee has been following
her personal musical path. She has a great talent for writing subtle songs, often personal and introvert, which are both political and narrative. With her soft, yet insistent voice, she captivates her public, while she accompanies herself on guitar.

Her music went through a change, going from folk to ’hobopop’: her name for the combination of folk, jazz, rockabilly, and oldtime Americana that she has now played for years.

In the meantime she has produced six albums
for BBC Radio 2, all under her own label Hobopop Recordings. She has been nominated twice for BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards and she is the winner of the IMA award for the best Live Album in 2011. So she can no longer be considered to be unknown in her own country.

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Music from the archives of the Collegium Musicum Ultrajectinum

Two new episodes of Documento on July 7 and July 21 look at the Collegium Musicum Ultrajectinum, the music college of the city of Utrecht. These programmes have been produced as part of the Utrecht Music Year 2014, a year that also includes the opening of the new TivoliVredenburg.

In 1631 eleven prominent citizens of Utrecht established a society to make music together. This society played an important role in the musical life of the city until 1959.

These two programmes look at the history of
the society in the 17th and 18th centuries using their archives of sheet music. These archives contain a complete catalogue of all the sheet music that they held including compositions by Thomas Simpson, John Jenkins, Claude Lejeune, Marco Uccellini, Giuseppe Antonio Brescianello and Francesco Geminiani. A collection of opera overtures by George Frideric Handel were also discovered in the archives.

Broadcasts:
Part 1: Monday 7 July, 19.00 - 20.00
Part 2: Monday 21 July, 19.00 - 20.00

Introducing…

Armeno Alberts: presenter/producer

This month Armeno Alberts is in the limelight. He is going to start in September,
but we would like to introduce him to you now.

Café Sonore

“From September 2014 I will produce and present the programme Café Sonore once a month. Basically the programme will be broad-
cast on Wednesday evenings, in any case from 23.00 to midnight, but maybe it will become a 2 hour-block, from 22.00 to midnight. We are still
in negotiations about that.
From September 2012 to December 2013, Café Sonore was the last remaining structual radio programme from the Public Broadcaster, the VPRO (first on Radio 4, then on Radio 5 and finally ending up on Radio 6). From January
2014 onwards this programme (together with many other programmes) was cut back by
VPRO. This was the result of Cabinet Rutte l, which wants to save 200 million on the media budget. And, not unimportantly …, when the programme disappeared I lost my job as well”

Content

“At the VPRO, Café Sonore was the radio platform for the 'Ras Acustica', an 'umbrella phrase’ for a number of 'vulnerable' genres within contemporary music, i.e. acousmatic music, sound art, radiophonics, experimental impro, etc. However, within the Concertzender Café Sonore is not
the only programme that covers such music genres, which are a little unknown.
I will therefore change the direction of Café Sonore somewhat under the banner
of the Concertzender. Currently I am still in discussion with those directly involved
in order to get everything agreed in the best possible way.”

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Next newsletter

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