Evert's World of Music

"In tackling the problem of music as a function of culture proper (...), we begin where biology and psychology leave off. In culture ...

In 1975, some Frisian musicians thought Frisian folk music deserved a revival, in line with the Irish, English, French and Dutch folk-music ...

We - and I don't know exactly who these 'we' are - we worry about the state of music education in Dutch schools. We say, in ac...

One of the joys of teaching is that, in the preparation as well as in the classes themselves, one is constantly challenged to explain onesel...

I was at an international conference last week, about conservatoires. I was leading a workshop on audience engagement, or audience developme...

Another new word: perturbation. Of course I knew it existed. But one doesn't hear it very often. I was in a small meeting in which o...

I am learning new words every day. Recently I stumbled over he word 'neuromythology'. It is a word I, retrospectively, had been lo...