Evert's World of Music

Some time ago we had a party in the house. Many friends came along, including an old friend from West Papua. People drank and chatted. I p...

I was on the conference Research in Arts Education last week. A yearly gathering of people doing all kinds of research in the education of m...

I wrote in an earlier entry in this blog about why playing an instrument always seems to lead to the wish to become better at it. Why do you...

I went to the Gideon Festival last week, as I try to do every year. Last year I went for an afternoon with the family, and we repeated it th...

Are singers musicians? In my time as a conservatoire student (not much of a singer) the answer was, according to the community of conservato...

No music today(?) Now that I have been writing about birds quite a lot lately, one more little thing. I biked home the other day and was n...

I was sitting at a breakfast table in the renowned Hotel Van der Werf (nicknamed Fawlty Towers by some, which is not completely fair as it i...