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world-minimal-music-festival-2015 | Martin Lo-A-Njoe
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Concert 12 april 2015. Toccata" (2011) voor 31-toons Fokker-orgel en 96-toons Carrillo piano. World Minimal Music Festival 2015 Muziekgebouw aan 't IJ.
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Biography | Martin Lo-A-Njoe
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Before he started with his music study at the Conservatory, he has had classical private pianolessons. From 1992 till 1998 he studied composition with Daan Manneke at the "Sweelinck Conservatorium" in Amsterdam. At the same Conservatory he also followed the theory classes for jazz and also had jazz pianolessons with Berend van den Berg. Through this periode he studied a few years ethnomusicology at the University of Amsterdam.
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Classicism | John Borstlap
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John Borstlap: a revival of classicism. After early experiments in free atonality, influenced by Schönberg ( Trois Préludes. 1969, for piano solo), John Borstlap explored fresh tonal possibilities in the short orchestral piece Invocazione. 1972) and a Violin Concerto. 1974) after the stimulating encounter with the music of Karol Szymanowski. Piano works such as the introvert, short Sonata. 1975), the etherial Avatâra. 1980) and the classicist Variations. For ensemble (1985) and the virtuoso Sinfonia.
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Werkbeschreibung Deutsch | John Borstlap
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8212;——————————————————————————————. JOHN BORSTLAP: BRUECKE UEBER DEN ABGRUND. Neue klassische Musik als eine Wiedergeburt älterer Stile. 8220;John Borstlap kombiniert in seiner Musik ein grosses fachliches Können mit äusserst originellem thematischen Material. Es ist auffallend wie erfrischend neue tonale Musik sein kann.” Mens and Melodie Music Magazine. Tatsächlich strebt Borstlap nach Schönheit. Wenn dies lange als altmodisch galt, so scheint mir heute eher die Denunziation und Exklusion von Schö...
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Critique of modern art | John Borstlap
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Critique of modern art. July 2, 2015. An early psychological depth-analysis of musical modernism was presented by the German musicologist and composer Wolfgang-Andreas Schultz in his admirable booklet. Damit die Musik nicht aufhoert. Eisenach: Musikalienhandlung Karl Dieter Wagner, 1997 and in his perceptive essay. Avantgarde und Trauma – Die Musik des 20. Jahrhunderts und die Erfahrungen der Weltkriege. In ‘Lettre International’, German issue nr 71, Berlin, winter 2005. In. The Aesthetics of Music.
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Music and the mind | John Borstlap
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Music and the mind. March 28, 2015. Music is a complete representation of a state of mind. We know the heart of our civilization through music in a way we cannot easily know through anything else. We communicate not just with other people, but with other generations. Like Bach’s St Matthew Passion. The fact that such things exist makes available to us a vision of the world that is not only superior to ours, but has an awful lot to teach us about what we could be. Other passages by Scruton:. Something of ...
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List of publications | John Borstlap
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Contemporary music and tonality. In ‘Mens and Melodie’, music magazine in the Netherlands, October 1977. Defending the possibility of tonality in new music as an alternative to atonal modernism. Messiaen and his piano oeuvre. In ‘Piano Bulletin’, magazine of the Dutch branche of the EPTA (European Piano Teachers Association), 1986/3. Discussion of Messiaen’s works for piano, especially his ‘Quatre études de Rythme’ which were a crucial inspiration for Darmstadt serialism. Postmodernism and new music.
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Epigraphs | John Borstlap
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During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act.’. 8216;The end is where we start from.’. 8216;There is nothing that music cannot do, as long as it remains music.’. 8216;Everything that needs to be said has already been said. But since no one was listening, everything must be said again.’. 8216;True art matters because it puts us in touch with what we really are, and enables us to live on that higher plane where freedom and fulfilment are given.’. Wie kommt man ins Freie?
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Overview of all Works | Martin Lo-A-Njoe
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Overview of all Works. Overview of all Works. Overview of all Works. For voice and piano. For violin and piano. Black is the colour'. For 5-part close-harmony choir. Impressions on 3 spanish poems. For voice, piano,. Violin and percussion ad lib. Lachirimae, so traurig. A waltz for Evelyn Hinrichsen. For marimba-quartet and vibraphone. DrQuinn, medicine woman. For 31-tone Fokkerorgan and laptop. For 31-toneFokkerorgan and 96-tone Carrillo piano. For Voice, (Bas)Clarinet and Violoncello.
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Biography | Martin Lo-A-Njoe
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Before he started with his music study at the Conservatory, he has had classical private pianolessons. From 1992 till 1998 he studied composition with Daan Manneke at the "Sweelinck Conservatorium" in Amsterdam. At the same Conservatory he also followed the theory classes for jazz and also had jazz pianolessons with Berend van den Berg. Through this periode he studied a few years ethnomusicology at the University of Amsterdam.
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