Monday, January 25, 2016

Are DJs Musicians?

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Earlier I wrote about the question whether or not singers are musicians . The question is as pressing as ever - again and again I find snipp...
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Sunday, January 17, 2016

Erik Scherder, Mischa Spel, and why the New Lobby for Music Education desperately needs some opposition

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Interesting times for music education in the Netherlands. A New Lobby for Music Education seems to be forming. It consists of journalists, r...
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Saturday, December 12, 2015

How many people sing shanties, really?

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The Monitor Amateur Arts 2015 has appeared. Always interesting food for thought. This year in particular, at least for me: one of the ques...
Sunday, November 8, 2015

On the School Orchestra

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The school orchestra has become fashionable lately in Dutch primary education. A thorough genealogy of the resurrection has still to be writ...
Wednesday, October 21, 2015

Feeling Known

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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...
Saturday, October 3, 2015

The Psychology of the Face

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My newspaper provides me with breaking news: psychologists have found out that the preference for certain faces over other faces is not gene...
Saturday, September 26, 2015

Confusion of Categories 1

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