Evert's World of Music

I am reading the book "My Birds of Prey" ("Mijn roofvogels") by Rob Bijlsma. Rob Bijlsma is famous in our family - I tel...

`I love you', said the man. `But why?` asked the woman. `I can't tell you. I just simply love you', said the man. If you ask ...

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...