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Concertzender’s 40th anniversary festival
Concertzender is celebrating its 40th anniversary! Over the years, we have recorded many special performances in collaboration with Dutch (and now also Flemish) venues and organisations. In September, we will have a special anniversary festival with concerts to celebrate our anniversary. We would love to meet you on one of these days! We are particularly honoured that three cultural friends have offered to celebrate our anniversary with them. We will be guests at the festival Muze van Zuid and Zaal 100 in Amsterdam and at De Link in Tilburg. With this programming, we can show the versatility of Concertzender. Early music For the seventh time, Muze van Zuid will transform the streets, squares, parks, private homes and monuments of Amsterdam Zuid into a lively stage for live music by top musicians. Music can be heard for five days. These two concerts with early music are especially recommended for our listeners: Friday 13th September 17:30 – 19:00 Obrechtkerk Amsterdam Chapel music of Space Buy a ticket now Hollands Collectief makes the space of the Obrechtkerk shine, with universe researcher Galileo Galilei as inspiration. With music by Orlandus Lasso and Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck, among others. More info Saturday 14th September 17:30 – 19:30 Vondelkerk Amsterdam Poet’s love: baroque & spoken word Buy a ticket now Brand new poetry set to the most beautiful early music! Camerata Trajectina brings music to texts by contemporary spoken word artists this evening. More info Electronic and jazz Saturday 14th September Zaal 100 Amsterdam Crosslinks of the Concertzender The Concertzender offers a much-needed place for music that you can’t hear anywhere else. The Crosslinks name includes programmes where our programme makers let us hear their discoveries, cutting across musical laws and genre thinking. Art institution Zaal 100 in Amsterdam also focuses on experiment and talent development. And they were also founded in 1984! We celebrate our mutual anniversary with a joint programme that fits in Zaal 100 and the Concertzender. Adventurous, dynamic and innovative are the key words. Let yourself be surprised in two halls by a crosslink of exciting new music. Details about the programme will follow. New music Sunday 15th September 19:30 – 21:30 Vondelkerk Amsterdam Closing party: Concertzender 40 years Buy a ticket now The festive closing of the seventh edition of the Amsterdam music festival Muze van Zuid is dedicated to 40 years of Concertzender! The festival has been playing old and new music for five days, with the same love for music as Concertzender. Star violinist Julija Hartig and her fantastic pianist Reineke Broekhans will play music by Isidora Žebeljan and Veljko Nenadić, among others. After the break, the acclaimed Oorkaan Ensemble will play music by Steven Kamperman, among others. More info Photo: Nichon Glerum Contemporary Tuesday 17th September 20:00 De Link in the Cenakel Tilburg Celebrating together: 40 Years of Concertzender! Buy a ticket now The festive opening of season 24/25 of De Link is our last anniversary concert. We celebrate this together with our friends in the South, with music by none other than pianist Antonii Baryshevskyi, accordion duo TOEAC and a discovery tour on the pipe organ by Oscar Peters. De Link is a concert organization for newly composed music in Tilburg, led by composers, musicians and enthusiasts. And where we have recorded concerts for our music archive ConcertPodium for many years. More info
John Coltrane, Maria Schneider, Suzan Veneman
Saturday 31st August, 14:00 – Past, Present & Future. John Coltrane leads a recording session for Blue Note Records in 1957: Blue Train. The record is quickly recognized as a masterpiece. We hear music from American composer and orchestra leader Maria Schneider that is far removed from the traditional ‘big band’ idiom. And Suzan Veneman (photo) is definitely ‘not an ordinary trumpet playing girl’. Past John Coltrane plays in the New York jazz club Five Spot Café in the second half of 1957. A long-term engagement. He is the frontman of the Thelonious Monk Quartet there. In that quartet: bassist Paul Chambers and drummer Philly Joe Jones – Coltrane’s bandmates from the Miles Davis quintet. In the same period he makes his debut with Blue Note Records. Chambers and Jones are also present here – together with pianist Kenny Drew. A rhythm section to savor. Next to Coltrane are trombonist Curtis Fuller and the 19-year-old! trumpeter Lee Morgan. The result, the album Blue Train, makes history. Blue Train, a composition by Coltrane, is indeed a blues. Relaxed tempo. Drummer Philly Joe Jones inserts a double time passage during each solo, which makes all the soloists feel nicely rushed. Coltrane’s Moment’s Notice became a standard, but the composer himself never recorded it a second time. The tempo increases, not only the time, but also the harmonic tempo. Paul Chambers comes with his signature, a bowed bass solo. The album Blue Train soon received wide and high appreciation. Coltrane’s career has since skyrocketed. Unfortunately for Blue Note Records, it remained his only album for the label. Present The now award-winning Maria Schneider (1960) is a composer and bandleader. The music of her orchestra – about twenty musicians – cannot be recognized as ‘big band jazz’. And ‘jazz’ is hardly applicable either. Walking by Flashlight starts step by step, at a slow pace. Meditative, probably composed clarinet melody. The orchestra slowly comes forward. No groups, rather one soft mixed colour of a rich palette. Percussion is barely noticeable. The solo part is taken over by the piano, then the clarinet again. Atmosphere and melody character remain in the same form and mood. A gradual increase in sound intensity provides a short-lived climax, although that is too big a word here. After this you will hear The Thompson Fields and A Potter’s Song. The three pieces are on Schneider’s album The Thompson Fields from 2014. The title refers to a place in rural Minnesota, where she grew up. Future The line-up of Suzan Veneman’s sextet is unusual: four trumpets/fluegelhorns, bass, percussion. No chordal instrument. That almost naturally requires unusual composition work. And Suzan knows exactly how to do that. Zinder is the title of Veneman’s second album (2024). And you can bet it’s going to be a blast. Trumpet/fluegelhorn: Suzan Veneman, Gidon Nunes Vaz, Alvaro Artime Jiménez, Kurt Weiss. Drums: Wouter Kühne. Bass: Tijs Klaassen. The Future is Now! Sunbathing Waking & Working Big Heart – Consolation Past, Present & Future – Jaap van de Klomp

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