Evert's World of Music

The Monitor Amateur Arts 2015 has appeared. Always interesting food for thought. This year in particular, at least for me: one of the ques...

The school orchestra has become fashionable lately in Dutch primary education. A thorough genealogy of the resurrection has still to be writ...

I went to regional radio station Radio Westerwolde in the east of the province to be interviewed about music for an hour on Tuesday last wee...

My newspaper provides me with breaking news: psychologists have found out that the preference for certain faces over other faces is not gene...

Early September Ola Mafaalani, artistic leader of the North-Netherlands Theatre, opened the Dutch theatre season with a speech in which she ...

I would like to write a little follow-up on the previous blog on public space. I was in Kazakhstan this summer, at the bi-yearly world confe...

It is summer, which means it is the time of the aggressive occupation of our public aural space. This implies that at least in the weekends,...