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Utrecht is no Vienna, Paris or London, it is no metropolis. And yet,
during the summer of 2014, it was the city that opened the doors
of TivoliVredenburg. TivoliVredenburg has as much as five concert
halls and is therefore the most ambitious musical undertaking in
the Netherlands and its surroundings. Such cheek! In a city which
is averse to making a song and dance about anything and never
 puts on airs. Where did Utrecht find the guts?
Has the fourth city of
the country gone mad?
Future will tell, but if it is true that history repeats itself there
is every reason to approach
that future with confidence.
After all Utrecht can pride itself on its rich
past as Music City of International Substance. And
on that historic foundation TivoliVredenburg can continue
to build.
In a series of ten programmes the Concertzender will substantiate the thesis
that Utrecht can assume the qualification of `international music city’ without
any reservation whatsoever. Musical personalities and events from the previous and recent history of TivoliVredenburg will be reviewed.
The programmes:
- 1847: festive opening of K&W
- Johannes Brahms about the house
- The Schumanns and ‘an orchestra of shoemakers and taylors’
- 9 December 1842: Franz Liszt at the Vredenburg
- The Sacre, a quasi-illegal sensation
- Premiere: OlivierMessiaen
- Premiere: Steve Reich and Louis Andriessen
- The breakthrough of Canto Ostinato
- The Orchestra of the Eighteenth Century in Residence
- Hotbed of Early Music
- Silence Recording
The series ‘The historic foundation of TivoliVredenburg’ will be put together by Mathieu Heinrichs, former director of Vredenburg Utrecht (2001-2007). You can
hear the series weekly on Thursdays, 20.00-21.00.
(And then we haven’t even talked about the musical histories in Utrecht with
regard to pop, blues, jazz and world music yet.)
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