maandag 21 december 2009

This is just too cool: Handel´s Messiah in manuscript online: ht...

This is just too cool: Handel´s Messiah in manuscript online: http://ttpdownload.bl.uk/app_files/silverlight/default.html?id=38FD72B2-5B98-4FC2-AAAE-98E717E8D512

And this is less cool, Flupsen fired from Vrije Geluiden: http://www.radio4.nl/page/artikel/12406

In Venezuela on holidays, visiting the family and showing them Saul. No sax with me.... Great feeling after such busy times. Next year will bring me a.o. Ian Wilson´s new sax concerto (premier in Muziekgebouw, Amsterdam), Amstel tour in the US, premier concerts of the Four Baritones (revisited), recording and releasing Amstel 4tet´s new CD with Niti Ranjan Biswas (tabla), learning Mozart Dissonance 4tet, and much more.

Gelukkig maar, en daarna zien we wel weer

Gelukkig maar, en daarna zien we wel weer

donderdag 17 december 2009

Review of Ties Mellema playing Jacob Ter Veldhuis in Chili, dated summer 2007

maandag 7 december 2009

Waiting for the vegetables to get ready, another blog entry

Waiting for the vegetables to get ready, another blog entry.
Busiest time of my life it seems. Many premieres, as a soloist, but also with my quartet. I had my Concertgebouw recital, Wijnand's premiere of the saxophone concerto and this weekend Amstel weekend with many new notes. After that, two weeks holidays in Venezuela, visiting my family in law.
Concertgebouw gig was good. It was a cosy concert. It was very informal, and as it turned out, also the programme build up was as well. A collection of pieces, put together at random, except for the fact that they were all pieces we liked. Some people didn't like this, too chaotic, but many people liked this informal aspect... Something to continue thnking about. I chose for the traditional sax/piano recital because I think it works. I did not want to make a show. I believe the notes have enough to say as they are...
Amstel Quartet on WQXR NY radio, Robert Sherman's show