Regularly the accusation of ‘conservatism’ is thrown at me, in the way a shoplifter is caught with his hands in the jewelry box, but without arguments and without consequences, so that the occasion passes like a cold draught on a sunny afternoon. But delving deeper into the possible motivation of such burbs, may contribute…
Month: August 2013
Why Ives is not a ‘great composer’
Today – 23/8/13 – I stumbled into an article on the interesting website www.npr.org/blogs/deceptivecadence/2013/ which is, I believe, run by an American radio station called NPR. Under the title ‘An American Maverick Turns The Symphony On Its Head’ the well-known musicologist Jan Swafford celebrates the modernity and genius of Charles Ives, who was so much…
Contemporary early music: the presence of the past
Reading Bruce Haynes’ The End of Early Music, an excellent exploration of the performance movement generally referred to as the ‘early music movement’ or HIP (Historically Informed Performance), a couple of things struck me as relevant for contemporary composition: I’m beginning to realize that, just as all concert music – even that of last…
Een welverdiende prijs
De nieuwsbrief van het Fonds Podiumkunsten van 6 augustus 2013 vermeldde het volgende bericht: JAN VAN DE PUTTE ONTVANGT MATTHIJS VERMEULENPRIJS Jan van de Putte (1959) ontvangt de prestigieuze Matthijs Vermeulenprijs voor zijn werk Kagami-Jishi voor pianosolo en orkest. Kagami-Jishi, een compositie uit 2012, heeft Van de Putte gemaakt in opdracht van de NTR ZaterdagMatinee….