Tuesday, April 30, 2013

King's Day - 'Koningslied' Revisited; or: on quality and taste.

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It is the evening of the first King's Day - or is it the last Queen's day? Or both? In the morning the kids watched the television t...
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Friday, April 19, 2013

"Koningslied" - Song for our new king

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As you may know, our current Queen steps down in two weeks time, and we will have a new king, Willem-Alexander. When the Chinese emperor d...
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Thursday, April 11, 2013

Mathieu Weggeman and The Indecent Musician

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It's old news, sorry, but I remember I wanted to react on it when I read it last year but forgot to do so. And now one of my Facebook ...
Wednesday, March 27, 2013

Golden Oldies

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A colleague of mine, whom I asked if he would be interested to take part in one of our projects in the field of music and the elderly, menti...
Monday, March 18, 2013

The Tyranny of Playing an Instrument

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Christopher Small once invented - or at least reinvented - the word 'musicking' to indicate musical behavior,  stressing the fact th...
Wednesday, March 13, 2013

Alan Lomax revisited - or Who the Dutchie Was (aka: Pieter de Rooij Wins the Prize)

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This blog entry will reveal who the Dutchie was who accompanied Alan Lomax on a trip to Spain just after the second world war - see my earl...
Wednesday, March 6, 2013

Schizophonia - or: Against Amplification

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Although I love pop, rock, jazz, world music at least just as much as classical music, there is one thing that classical music does better t...