yesterday after a really great concert at the Concertgebouw was! It was a crazy program, with early works by Prokofiev and some modern works, all conducted by the enthusiastic David Robertson. After the first piece of Tristan Keuris the piano should be brought to the stage for the First Piano Concerto of Prokofiev. Concertgebouw one has for a great design: the piano is brought up with a sort of lift, and comes "out" of the stage - all the strings have to sit up front will also leave your place shortly. The ingenious Concertgebouw Orchestra has a quasi "Background Music" program for this conversion a piece for wind instruments, double bass and percussion by Mayke Nas, which was played during the setting up of the piano. Mayke is the granddaughter of Louis Toebosch, and with her I'm still studying in Tilburg! ... This highly inventive piece has a title which make great today on all financial markets would be: "NO REASON TO PANIC !"... After playing this piece Enrico Pace the soloist in the Prokofiev - with breathtaking virtuosity and render delicacy rarely heard! Enrico was five years of the pianist in the 2nd Brahms Piano Concerto in my inaugural concert in Hagen, and it was extremely nice to meet him during the break - because Leonard (also former de Tiègeschüler) and I were so bold to just enter the soloists room ...!
After the break, a fantastic piece of Sofia Goebajdoelina was played - what an incredible power that music at the Concertgebouw developed! The large-organ Maarschalkerweert with the high virtuoso Leo van Doeselaar sounded phenomenal! It was also great to see the composer himself, and to observe how happy she was with this evocative performance. Finally, the sound extremely difficult and keikele first Symphony (Classical) Prokofiev, who is currently in Hagen on the program! ...
way, I'm starting on Thursday of large enemy of the German Orchestra Association! :-) And I have absolutely no sympathy for striking more musicians!! :-) :-)
What happened?
I was on Thursday in Tosca in Dortmund. Anne Marie Kremer sang a great title role, and my mentor and friend, Jac van Steen conducted. In the beginning the idea was a member of the union would explain why the musicians make a so-called "warning strike". It's about the uncoupling of the civil service and other conditions in the negotiation stage with the club for four years can not be brought to agreement. So far still okay.
But this delay lasted 10 minutes. Following the presentation are Maestro van Steen and I grew in double quick time in the car. Goal was that he would take me to the night train from Eindhoven 23:57 so I still at a fairly Christian clamors to time in Amsterdam would. This delay we arrived just five minutes late for this train, which meant I on the night train from half an hour later, as a bonus for the ticket, take a sightseeing tour "Holland-by-night" I get (Tilburg-Breda -Rotterdam-The Hague-Leiden-Schiphol) to enter and probably counted SHORTLY AFTER HALF FOUR (!!!) my Amsterdam apartment was! ... /&%$/&%$/
But as always, it also helps here, if one just stays calm ... And again and again repeated the words of healing Kompostion of Mayke Nas: NO REASON TO PANIC!
PS a small addendum: This whole passage around the DOV and striking musicians is meant, of course humorous - and in no way a political statement! After five years of hard struggle in culture Hagen everyone can hopefully my attitude to savings in the cultural sector or non-respect to think over performing artists.
Or something like a Dortmunder colleague said ...: "If the boss will simply drive faster !"... (Even faster ?..........)
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