Cultural Sundays and the Concertzender join forces.
Concertzender broadcasts live from the Concertzender stage at the Stadhuisplein, alternating between live muziek and interviews. We don’t report, but play a selection of Utrecht musicians, both on stage and from our adjoining glass studio.
Host 1st uur Stef Lokin & co-host Pauline Verburg.
13:00 – Opening from the studio. A view of what can be seen and heard in Utrecht this afternoon. What is Utrecht Centraal up to?
13:10 – stage: Continental Céili Band & Keltisch Dansje
Originally céili (pronounced: kaylee) is a social gathering in Ireland. Ireland and Scotland are nowadays all about festive gatherings with traditional song and dance. At the heart of it are group dances. én Schotland gaat het tegenwoordig vaak om een feestelijke bijeenkomst met traditionele dans en muziek. Groepsdansen staat daarbij centraal. Keltisch Dansje (Celtic Little Dance) is a school of dance, which organizes these gatherings as a workshop. The band C.C.B. was founded through Irish jam sessions in O’Leary’s Irish pub in Utrecht). Its number of members varies between five and twenty of experienced Irish musicians, who play acoustic instruments, like the violin, guitar, flute, accordion, banjo, bodhrán (hand drum) and uilleann pipes (Irish bagpipes). keltischdansje.nl
13:20 – studio: Bob Rusche and the Le Quess Who festival.
He comes on to talk about his programme X-rated and the Le Quess Who festival. What is this Festival precies and what’s this year’s line up?
13:30 – stage: De Utrechtse Muziekoorlog
‘De Utrechtse Muziekoorlog’ (The Utrecht Music War) is a production based on the turbulent times in the history of Utrecht music. Around 1920, naming Jan van Gilse the new conductor of the Utrechts Stedelijk Orchestra stirred up a lot of bad blood. Anti-German sentiments, seeing the First World War had just ended, were in play. Feared music critic Willem Pijper didn’t agree with the decision and climbed into his razor-sharp pen. Things heated up so much, Van Gilse at one point refused to conducted if Pijper was in the audience. Both Van Gilse and Pijper were also composers. So this is a great premise to play their music. Attached to the performance are two members of the world renowned Utrecht String Quartet and two student of the Utrecht Conservatoire they invited along. The script is by Coen Cornelis and is performed by Jos Nargy and Joep Hendrikx.
utrechtstringquartet.com
13:40 – studio: The Rosa Ensemble
This was partly created for the De Muziekroute (Musical route) to familiarize elementary students with music. Our guest at the studio is Maite van der Marel, conductor and project leader; Diederik Rijpstra, trumpet, and Petra Ball, vocals.
13:50 – stage: Holland Baroque & Eric Vloeimans, trumpet
Holland Baroque was recently in the news with their very successful attempt of asking modern music expert Reinbert de Leeuw to take on the Matthäus Passion with them, which was magnificently filmed by Cherry Duyns. This kind of daring experiments are typical of this ensemble. Their latest project is a collaboration with the most famous Dutch jazz trumpet player Eric Vloeimans, who was never constricted to a single genre with his moving whispering sounds. (Eric Vloeimans (03:00) and an interview with Tineke and Judith Steenbrink of Holland Baroque).
Host 2nd hour Louis Thörig & co-host Carolien Schönfeld.
14:00 – studio: Sured
Sjoerd Raaymakers (Sured) is a singer/songwriter of Utrecht 2016. He plays live at the studio and talks about his music.
suredmusic.nl
14:10 – stage: Thailo van Ree & Friends
The information on Thailo will follow.
14:20 – studio: Barend Tobé
He is here to talk about the news string of concerts “Catharijne Classique” every Sunday from 5 June to 20 August at the Catharijne Convent. Maria and Whitsun Songs.
Mitch van Essen
14:30 – stage: Mitch van Essen
Mitch, singer of Dutch popular music, performs every week and he will travel any distance. From Emmen to Breda, from The Hague to Eindhoven and from Amsterdam to Utrecht, he sings in pubs, restaurants, football cafeterias and dance halls, at birthday parties, weddings, conventions, communions, corporate retreats and camping grounds. He will soon release his first single.
14:40 – studio: Kargadoor & Concertzender
The Kargadoor and the Concertzender are two of a kind. Without being subsidized, they try to create a platform for music lovers and players. An interview with Maarten Stocksen of Karagadoor and Sem de Jongh of the Concertzender.
14:50 – stage: Thijl, the Opera (piano and soloists)
Utrecht conductor and composer Jan van Gilse – who was also the president of musical licencing organisation BUMA -was one of the first musicians during German occupation who openly announced he would not work with Germans and would not become member of the Kultuurkamer. This led to him being fired, having to go into hiding and his music became forbidden and was even destroyed. Two of Van Gilse’s sons were heavily involved with the resistance and were executed. In 1940 Van Gilse wrote an opera about Thijl Uilenspieghel, which is set in the 16th century, when Flanders was occupied by the Spanish. This opera will be performed in the fall of 2017 by the Utrechts Studenten Concert, with among its soloists Anthony Heidweiler.
15:00 – studio: Anthony Heidweiler
He just sung on the stage from Thijl, the Opera and is sprinting to the studio. Anthony contributes a lot to participation projects. What are these, what does he hope to achieve and who can participate?
Operamakers.nl.
The Folk Road Show
15:10 – stage: The Folk Road Show
The main attraction of the Concertzender stage is the performance of The Folk Road Show, an international musical collective consisting of five singer/songwriters and multi-instrumentalists from Australia, Canada and the Netherlands. All members write songs and they take turns in singing lead. Their harmonies are compared to Crosby, Stills and Nash. The group has gone on numerous European tours and one Canadian one, which is where they recorded their debut album.
folkroadshow.bandcamp.com
Host Rahul Gandolahage & co-host Louis Thörig
15:40 – Anja Volk on the secrets in music
Anja is a computer scientist at the University of Utrecht and is studies several aspects of music, like what make a song contagious or why recognized music have so many repeats? She uses computer models to answer these and other questions. Nienke de Haan is of Studium Generale, the Stage for knowledge & reflection of the University of Utrecht, which organizes many lectures on scientific subjects for a wider audience.
15:55 – stage:
Info will follow.
Pierrot Lunaire
16:05 – studio: Ekatrina Leventhal
She talks about her opera Pierrot Lunaire and of course plays something from the opera.
Ekatrina.nl
16:15 – stage: Terence Roelofsen, singer/songwriter
Terence Roelofsen is a well-known figure for many Utrecht people. He is even lovingly called the ‘night mayor’. We mostly know him for his songs in English . Every now and then, seeing he is born and raised in Utrecht, he writes in Dutch. For example the song ‘In het midden’ (in the middle), about his city, which fits him like his favourite coat. The video for this song was recorded in a single take at the Dom tower. Terence was honourably mentioned for it at Giels Talentjacht.
16:25 – studio: Insomnio
Idske Bakker komt vertellen over de plannen van Insomnio en met name over hun project “Michaels Reise” van Stockhausen.
Jaber Fayad en Walid Ben Selim, foto: Maarten Mooijman
16:35 – podium: Walid Ben Selim & Jaber Fayad
Muziek die de Arabische wereld en het Westen probeert te verbinden. De Marokkaanse zanger Walid Ben Selim baseert zijn teksten op hedendaagse en klassieke Arabische poëzie met een sterke vrijheidsboodschap.
Jaber Fayad bespeelt de Syrische luit. Hij bouwt ze ook. In 2015 moest hij Syrië ontvluchten. Zelfs tijdens de levensgevaarlijke oversteek in een rubberboot probeerde hij het moreel van zijn medevluchtelingen hoog te houden door voor ze te zingen.
Host last part Carolien Schönfeld & co-host Karin v.d. Boogaert
16:45 – studio: UJazz
Some music lovers claim the attention for jazz is diminishing. This is not the case at the Concertzender or in Utrecht. Host and programmemaker Carolien Schönfeld creates jazz programmes for the Concertzender. She brings a guest, to get us better acquainted with Utrecht jazz.
16:55 – stage: Klangkörper, Danibal and Rowan Hartsuiker
Danibal is a musician, who has specialized in playing the Jew’s harp, a small strumming instrument which is fairly obscure in the Netherlands. Worldwide, the instrument is thriving, both in traditional and pop music. Danibal’s music is filled with influences from numerous traditions. His music also features more and more throat singing, yodeling and other lyric-less use of his vocal chords.
danibal.nl
Rowan Hartsuiker sings and plays Mongolian music on a Mongolian violin or banjo and is fascinated with throat singing. He even teaches workshops.
rowanhartsuiker.com
17:05 – studio: Rabo Next Stage
This project of TivoliVredenburg and the Rabobank encourages young talent. Hanno Tomassen talks about the project. Coen Witteman is a coach at Next Stage and tells about his collaboration with singer/songwriter Arie Buursma, who will join us in the studio to play live.
17:15 – stage: Van Piekeren
Van Piekeren is a Dutch theatre band from Utrecht with its very unique and varied repertoire, dynamically performed in a semi-acoustic setting. Think ‘Tom Waits meets Ramses Shaffy meets JJ Cale’. Jan van Piekeren, vocals, Johan Fransen, guitar, Hans Boosman, percussion en Wouter Kronenberg, bass.
vanpiekeren.nl
17:25 – studio: Malgosia Fiebig
A closer encounter with someone who knows the whole of Utrecht but hardly ever sees it: Malgosia Fiebig, the carilloneur of the cities of Utrecht and Nijmegen.
17:35 – stage:
Information to follow.
17:45 – studio: Lidy Ettema & Eduard Versteege
They are the project leader and programmer of Utrecht Centraal/Cultural Sundays and reflect on the day. Will it be repeated?
