This
year the November Music festival in Den Bosch takes place
from November
4th to November 8th. The festival started in 1993
and has since
grown to be one of the most important festivals of contemporary music
in the Netherlands. The Concertzender will
again be present at the
festival and will be recording many of the concerts for future
broadcasts.
Step Across the Border is the title of a film made in 1990 about the guitarist Fred Frith, a full three years before the first edition of November Music. Now, 25 years later, this is still a perfect description of November Music: music made by important artists that operate across the borders defined by musical genres.
For
example, Arvo Pärt and Helmut Lachenmann, two major names in
contemporary music
who have much in common but make music that
sounds so completely different. Or the Asko|Schönberg, the
internationally reknowned ensemble, who are the ensemble in residence during the festival and will be perfoming four concerts.
The
two composers in focus are Florian Magnus Maier and Wilbert
Bulsink, both of whom are exploring the boundaries of contemporary
music in their own ways. And,
of course, Fred Frith himself, who is
still stepping across borders 25 years after the
film was made and
will be perfoming with the guitar quartet Zwerm. And this is only
a small selection of the music that can be heard during November Music 2015.
The Concertzender will be recording most of the concerts during November Music
2015 together
with the VPRO. These recordings will be broadcast in a new 2-hour
programme on the first Monday of each month that will be starting in
January 2016.However, you can already listen to more than 140
hours of recordings from earlier editions of the festival on our November Musis theme channel.
For more information about the festival visit the website www.novembermusic.net.
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