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More than 80 concerts at 20 different locations in th th 25 25 ’s-Hertogenbosch. The music cuts across many edition edition genres. From adventurous chamber music to jazz, world music, electronic and contemporary composed music, to music theatre, mesmerizing minimal music, progressive rock, and sound installations. November Music has become the most important festival for contemporary music in the Netherlands in the course of 25 years. Time for a party, in other words! This year’s celebratory edition runs from 2 through 12 November 2017 and it includes special projects around John Zorn, Metropole Orkest, and the Bosch Requiem. Highlights

John Zorn Jazz & world Nine concerts including Bill Frisell / Nova Express / Bagatelles / Metropole Orkest & Cory Henry / Essential Cinema / Sabîl Quartet / Jaimeo Brown / String Quartets / Simulacrum Airelle Besson Quartet / Basel Rajoub / Jon Balke Siwan 2 through 12 november 2017 Bosch Requiem 2017 Ensembles ’s-Hertogenbosch Anthony Fiumara / Bang on a Can All-Stars / Désanne van Brederode / Ensemble Intercontemporain / John Zorn Bosch Requiem Nederlands Kamerkoor / Ragazze Quartet Holland Baroque / TEMKO / Metropole Orkest & Cory Henry Peter De Graef / Marianne van Heeswijk / Matzer Theaterproducties Bang on a Can All-Stars Bill Frisell

Minimal Composers Ensemble Intercontemporain music Calliope Tsoupaki / Anthony Fiumara Jon Balke Siwan marathon Kate Moore / Aart Strootman / Works by Philip Glass / Wim Henderickx / Micha Hamel / Heiner Goebbels and many others La Monte Young / Terry Riley Rob Zuidam * * 11 days * 20 venues * 80 concerts @novmusic @novembermusicNL www.novembermusic.net NOVEMBER MUSIC 2017 CONTENTS

In 25 years of November Music there have been over 1,000 concerts OVERVIEW SCHEDULES p 4 and 100s of commissioned compositions. We have welcomed many composers and musicians of different generations. An THURSDAY 2 NOVEMBER p 14 excellent moment to browse our first programme, produced in 1993. Obviously, numbers have grown and we are more international. FRIDAY 3 NOVEMBER p 15 Also, the number of people who have heard of the festival has increased exponentially. And yet our ‘mission’ has not changed SATURDAY 4 NOVEMBER JOHN ZORN p 16 down the years. We are still supporting makers as they realise their SUNDAY 5 NOVEMBER p 18 dreams, taking risks, and involving as many visitors as possible. We are so pleased that John Zorn will be with us to celebrate this MONDAY 6 NOVEMBER p 22 jubilee edition. And that is not all. The autumnal city will fill up with new sounds for 11 days, created by makers of any age and with the TUESDAY 7 NOVEMBER p 26 passionate involvement of numerous musicians from the far corners of the world. There will be plenty of surprises as you visit hospitable WEDNESDAY 8 NOVEMBER p 29 s-Hertogenbosch in the Netherllands. THURSDAY 9 NOVEMBER p 32 Bert Palinckx and Theo van Dooremalen FRIDAY 10 NOVEMBER p 36 STAFF BOARD SATURDAY 11 NOVEMBER p 43 Heleen Moors manager Lucas Vis chair SUNDAY 12 NOVEMBER p 56 Koen Graat communication | Aleida Hamel secretary programming Gerton Heyne treasurer KUNSTMUZIEKROUTE / HOW DOES IT WORK? p 58 jazz & world Ans Buys member Bernard Jussen technical coordinator Edo Dijksterhuis member KUNSTMUZIEKROUTE / CONCERTS p 60 MORE ABOUT MUSIC p 74 TEXT, PHOTOGRAPHY & VISUALS COMPOSER IN FOCUS p 76 text Mark van de Voort design Anke Schalk photography Roger Cremers / Wiebrig Krakau / ENSEMBLE IN RESIDENCE p 77 Scott Irvine / Sylvain Gripoix / Daisy van Knotsenburg / Ilkka Halso (Museum of Nature) / Ben van Duin / Anna van Kooij / Anouk van Kalmthout / Koen Broos / Peter Serling / Hans MAP AND LOCATIONS p 78 van den Boogaard / Charlie de Keersmaeker / Jean-Baptiste Milliot / Emanuel Maes / Merlijn Doomernik / Miek Uittenhout / Carlos Casas / Marco Borggreve / Nancy Horowitz / Francois PRACTICAL INFORMATION p 80 Berland / Dmytriy Ganystrevich / Janita Sasse / Falco Hassink / Sascha Osakaj / Aga Tomaszec / S. Xanthoulis / Caroline Bittencourt / Merijn Bisschops / Eline de Jong / J. Sacks / Barbora FUNDERS AND PARTNERS p 82 Fabianova / Gemma van der Heyden / Marijana Pajovic / Allard van der Hoek / Piet Kuijten / Caroline Seid and others. Subject to alterations. Go to www.novembermusic.net for the most up-to-date information 2 3 THURS FRI TIMETABLE 2 NOV 20 .30 21 .30 22 .30 3 NOV 20 .30 21 .30 22 .30

Bosch Requiem Ensemble Inter- contemporain / Anthony Fiumara - Theater aan de Parade Verkadefabriek Grote Zaal No More Master- Memorial Park > p 14 pieces > p 15

INSTALLATIONS SAT JOHN ZORN IN (CONTINUOUS) 4 NOV ’S-HERTOGENBOSCH p 23 p 16 / 17

Documentary Mon 6 through Fri 10 Nov 10-11 AM Zorn 2010-1017 Verkadefabriek Filmzaal 1

4-9 PM Willem Twee Concertzaal Willem Twee 11.30 AM -12.30 PM String Quartets Gabriel Paiuk (formerly Toonzaal) Focus Kunstruimte Sat 11 & Sun 12 Nov 1-2 PM Music with Rhythm Section Verkadefabriek Clubzaal 11 AM-9 PM

2.30-3 PM The Hermetic Organ Sint-Janskathedraal Mon 6 through Fri 10 Nov

9 AM-9 PM 3.30-4.30 PM Bagatelles I Noordbrabants Museum Rozalie Hirs / Willem Twee Machiel Spaan Kunstruimte Luisterhuis Sat 11 & Sun 12 Nov 5-6 PM Madrigals Grote Kerk

11 AM-9 PM 6.30-7.30 PM Bagatelles II Verkadefabriek Grote Zaal

Mon 6 through Fri 10 Nov 8-9 PM Chamber Music Theater aan de Parade 11 AM-9 PM Angela de Weijer Verkadefabriek 1’26” Serre 9.30-10.30 PMr Simulacrum Willem Twee Poppodium Sat 11 & Sun 12 Nov

11.30 AM-9 PM 11-12 PM Essential Cinema Verkadefabriek Grote Zaal

4 5 TIMETABLE SUN 13 .30 14 .30 15 .30 16 .30 17 .30 18 .30 19 .30 20 .30 21 .30 22 5 NOV

Kruithuis / Installatie Expeditie Extended > p 18 Willem Twee Kunstruimte Slagwerk Den Haag Verkadefabriek Kleine Zaal Stok uit Hoed (6+) > p 20

Airelle Besson Quartet voorgesprek Verkadefabriek Clubzaal > p 19 Silbersee > p 21 Silbersee Verkadefabriek Grote Zaal Homo Instrumentalis > p 21

MON 6 NOV 11 .30 12 15 .30 16 .30 17 .30 18 .30 19 .30 20 .30 21 .30 22 Angela de Weijer Verkadefabriek serre 1’26” > p 23 Heiner Goebbels Verkadefabriek Filmzaal 1 Aesthetics of Absence > p 74 Installatie Kruithuis Expeditie > p 22 Jorrit Tamminga / Jorrit Tamminga / Verkadefabriek Kleine Zaal Katinka Polderman Katinka Polderman Over de beiaardier > p 24 Over de beiaardier > p 24 Dimitri Verhulst / Verkadefabriek Clubzaal Corrie van Binsbergen Godverdomse dagen > p 25

TUES 17 .30 18 .30 19 .30 20 .30 21 .30 22 .30 7 NOV

Installatie Expeditie Kruithuis > p 22

Robin Coops Disconnect Verkadefabriek Kleine Zaal > p 26

Heiner Goebbels / Ensemble Insomnio Verkadefabriek Grote Zaal Industry & Idleness > p 28

Marike van Dijk ft. Jeff Taylor Verkadefabriek Clubzaal The Stereograpy Project > p 27

6 7 TIMETABLE

WED .30 .30 .30 .30 .30 .30 8 NOV 17 18 19 20 21 22 Installatie Expeditie Kruithuis > p 22 Wim Henderickx / Verkadefabriek Grote Zaal Cappella Amsterdam Revelations > p 29 voorgesprek Calliope Tsoupaki / Opera Trionfo Theater aan de Parade Tsoupaki > p 30 Fortress Europe > p 30 De Pont museum: Verkadefabriek Filmzaal 4 Ruimte voor Kunst > p 74

THURS 12 .30 13 .30 14 .30 15 .30 16 .30 17 .30 18 .30 19 .30 20 .30 21 .30 22 .30 9 NOV Willem Twee Concertzaal Fiumarathon - (formerly Toonzaal) Anthony Fiumara / Ragazze Quartet / Ralph van Raat / Quartetto Maurice e.a. > p 32/33 Installatie Kruithuis Expeditie > p 22 Kate Moore / Saskia Schouten / Verkadefabriek Clubzaal Iarla Ó Lionáird > p 34 Ragazze Quartet > p 74 Bang on a Can Verkadefabriek Grote Zaal All-Stars > p 35

FRI 12 .30 13 .30 14 .30 15 .30 16 .30 17 .30 18 .30 19 .30 20 .30 21 .30 22 .30 23 .30 10 NOV Verkadefabriek Filmzaal 5 Bill Frisell, A Portrait > p 74

Willem Twee Concertzaal Rob Zuidam Het Collectief / Troparion Katrien Baerts (formerly Toonzaal) > p 36 > p 41 Shorelines Shorelines Verkadefabriek Kleine Zaal Oliver Coates / Oliver Coates / Ragazze > p 37 Ragazze > p 37 Stolz Quartet Muzerije Pleitzaal Razende Stilstand > p 40 Colours of Improvisation Verkadefabriek Grote Zaal Bill Frisell / Sabîl Quartet / Fulco Ottervanger e.a. > p 38/39

Plug Kruithuis > p 42

8 9 TIMETABLE

SAT 12 .30 13 .30 14 .30 15 .30 16 .30 17 .30 18 .30 19 .30 20 .30 21 .30 22 .30 23 .30 11 NOV philharmonie Micha Hamel Verkadefabriek Kleine Zaal zuidnederland Kus de regen > p 43 > p 52 Wishful Azijnfabriek Singing Victory! > p 44 Willem Twee Concertzaal Morris Kliphuis Maxim Shalygin The Secret Diary Lacrimosa (formerly Toonzaal) of Nora Plain > p 46 > p 51 Maarten Bij Katrien Ornstein > p 45 Installatie Installatie Kruithuis Expeditie Expeditie > p 22 > p 22

Basel Rajoub Verkadefabriek Clubzaal > p 47

Gross / Gross / Verkadefabriek Matzer Marinissen Marinissen Pitch Dark > p 48 Pitch Dark > p 48 Slagwerk Den Haag Ragazze Quartet / Verkadefabriek Grote Zaal Minimal Glas[s] Slagwerk Den Haag / Interludes > p 49 Terry Riley > p 54 Dick van der Harst Grote Kerk De Geschiedenis van de Wereld > p 50 Metropole Orkest / Theater aan de Parade Cory Henry / Tin Men and the Telephone > p 53 La Monte Young / Jheronimus Bosch Art Center Marian Zazeela > p 55

SUN 11 .30 12 .30 13 .30 14 .30 15 .30 16 .30 17 .30 18 .30 19 .30 20 .30 21 .30 22 .30 12 NOV KunstmuziekRoute zie blokkenschema p 12 / 13 Diverse locaties > vanaf p 58

Kate Moore / Verkadefabriek Kleine Zaal Slagwerk Den Haag Porcelain > p 56

Jon Balke Siwan Verkadefabriek Grote Zaal > p 57

10 11 SUN KUNST TIMETABLE 12 NOV Walk-in or 11 .30 12 .30 13 .30 14 .30 15 .30 16 .30 17 .30 MUZIEK no walk-in ROUTE location during concert JAZZ NOW Daniel Herskedal VF Clubzaal walk-in ROUTE > p 60 / 61 Jaimeo Brown Transcendence VF Clubzaal walk-in Willem Twee Rambags / Van Vliet / Courtois Concertzaal walk-in Willem Twee PREMIÈRE Kliphuis / Ragazze Quartet / Fischer Concertzaal no walk-in ROUTE > p 62 / 63 James Oesi Museum Slager no walk-in

Philip Thomas / Hirs / Fox Muzerije Hofzaal no walk-in

Andreas Borregaard / Richter / Walshe e.a. VF Cabaretfirma no walk-in

WORLD Matthias Loibner Theater Artemis no walk-in ROUTE (top floor) > p 64 / 65 Caravan VF Clubzaal walk-in Noordbrabants Suresh Vaidyanathan / Heiko Dijker Museum no walk-in VISUAL Merijn Bisschops / Prisma Trio Muzerije Pleitzaal no walk-in MUSIC ROUTE Thomas Bensdorp / Sterre Konijn VF Filmzaal 5 no walk-in > p 66 / 67 Niels Duffhues VF Filmzaal 4 no walk-in

instrument inventors initiative Kruithuis walk-in

PERFOR- Falk Hübner / Maarten Zaagman Stedelijk Museum no walk-in MANCE ROUTE Jacqueline Hamelink / Johnny Lloyd Theater Artemis no walk-in > p 68 / 69 (lower floor) VONK Stadsbibliotheek walk-in

Thanasis Deligiannis Pand 18 no walk-in

f.c. Jongbloed / James Tenney Grote Kerk walk-in

BRABANTSE van der Drift / Jørgensen / Smits Azijnfabriek walk-in JAZZ ROUTE Bram Stadhouders and The Big Barell Organ Tramkade walk-in > p 70 / 71 Paul van Kemenade / Aart Bergwerff Grote Kerk walk-in

BIGBAND Het Brabants Jazz Orkest / Langenhuijsen Bij Katrien walk-in ROUTE > p 72 / 73 Arthur Wagenaar VF Matzer no walk-in

Codarts Bigband ft. Reinier Baas / Passenier Bij Katrien walk-in Willem Twee INSTALLATIE Gabriel Paiuk Kunstruimte walk-in ROUTE > p 23 Angela de Weijer VF Serre walk-in Willem Twee 12 Rozalie Hirs / Machiel Spaan Kunstruimte walk-in BOSCH REQUIEM 2017 – MEMORIAL PARK NO MORE MASTERPIECES ANTHONY FIUMARA / DÉSANNE VAN BREDERODE ENSEMBLE INTERCONTEMPORAIN / 33 1/3 Nederlands Kamerkoor / Holland Baroque / TEMKO Wolfgang Rihm

Thurs 2 Nov November Music continues the tradition of the Jheronimus Bosch The world-famous Ensemble Intercontemporain from France and Fri 3 Nov Theater aan manifestation by commissioning festival composer Anthony the Dutch video collective 33 1/3 turn Wolfgang Rihm’s Verkadefabriek de Parade Fiumara to write a new requiem. Three of his favourite ensembles composition Concerto Séraphin into a hallucinatory aural journey. Grote Zaal 8.30-10 PM perform Memorial Park. Namely, the Netherlands Chamber Choir, Using weird and wonderful melodic lines and unexpected sound 8.30-9.30 PM € 23 / € 20 / € 11,50 Holland Baroque, and TEMKO under Mathieu Romano. Fiumara’s combinations, the German composer pays scintillating tribute to € 20 / € 17 / € 10 compositions are characterised by a pure beauty that is timeless. the opium-induced visions of the French surrealist writer Antonin Artaud. composed / composed / The well-known Dutch author Désanne van Brederode, who tends visual music modern vocal / to subtly weave philosophical and topical affairs into her texts, has Rihm’s masterpiece has been knitted into the brand-new multi- minimal music written a splendid and poetic libretto. media production No More Masterpieces as a knowing wink to theatre revolutionary Artaud. A unique opportunity to see and The Belgian actor and master narrator Peter De Graef puts hear the top ensemble founded by Pierre Boulez; tonight led by the human soul under the magnifying glass and does so with conductor Dylan Corly. humour and compassion. Visual artist Marianne van Heeswijk has created a work specifically for this night in which the audience is invited to participate from 8 PM onwards on the square in front of the theatre. Madeleine Matzer and Jur van der Lecq (Matzer Theaterproducties) designed the mise-en-scène. 14 15 10 AM 11.30 AM ZORN 2010-2017 STRING QUARTETS (documentary by Mathieu Amalric) (Jack Quartet / Gosling)

Sat 4 Nov 1 PM MUSIC WITH RHYTHM SECTION 2.30 PM (Grohowski / Gosling / Campbell / THE HERMETIC ORGAN John Zorn Lipowski / Blumenkran) (Zorn) in ’s-Hertogenbosch

Sat 4 Nov John Zorn has been at the top of November Music’s wish list for Various locations years. Saturday 4 November is his day. Zorn will be present in and times ’s-Hertogenbosch on the occasion of the 25th edition of November 5 PM Music with a wide-ranging programme that emphasizes the 3.30 PM MADRIGALS John Zorn XL versatility of this legendary composer/musician/band leader from BAGATELLES I (Sheldon / Bates / Brailey / Hughes / festival pass € 150* New York. The cream of the crop of the contemporary downtown (Friedlander / Campbell / Riley / Lage) Calloway / Sollek) music scene will follow in Zorn’s wake so fans and music lovers John Zorn Medium can immerse themselves in his musical universe for one day. combi ticket € 75* How about the Bagatelles played by Nova Express featuring John Individual concerts Medeski, Kenny Wollesen, Joey Baron, and Trevor Dunn? Or 6.30 PM 8 PM € 20* perhaps Essential Cinema, music as a soundtrack for old movies BAGATELLES II CHAMBER MUSIC by Harry Smith, with the maestro himself on saxophone? Or Zorn’s (Nova Express / Marsella) (Asko|Schönberg / Mori / Campbell / *November Music’s string quartets performed by the phenomenal Jack Quartet? His Gosling) discount passes chamber music will be performed for the first time by the Dutch do not apply ensemble Asko|Schönberg, with several soloists from New York. A totally different story is Simulacrum’s energetic avant-garde composed / rock. Zorn will also play The Hermetic Organ on the enormous jazz / organ in Sint-Janskathedraal during a free concert. visual music / 9.30 PM 11 PM rock / More information on www.novembermusic.net SIMULACRUM ESSENTIAL CINEMA modern vocal (Medeski / Hollenberg / Grohowski) (Zorn / Mori / Dunn / Wollesen)

16 17 INSTALLATIE EXPEDITIE EXTENDED RADIO ONE iii / Gabriel Paiuk / Perforator AIRELLE BESSON QUARTET

Sun 5 Nov There is so much to discover at the interface between music, Trumpet player and composer Airelle Besson has reached the Sun 5 Nov Kruithuis / Willem performance, installations, and the visual arts. November Music upper regions of European jazz in no time. She won the prestigious Verkadefabriek Twee Kunstruimte plots a Sunday course along stunning poetic installations, artistic Django Reinhardt Award and has already worked with Carla Bley Clubzaal 1-5 PM performances, and visual music. and Charlie Haden. No other than Wynton Marsalis is her mentor. 3-4.30 PM € 12 / € 9 / € 6 At November Music she will play music from her breakthrough € 15 / € 12 / € 7,50 Visitors can go on an expedition in small groups around the album, Radio One. installations / atmospheric caverns at Kruithuis from 1 to 3. Curator Matteo jazz / rock performance / Marangoni has installed a complete exhibition with installations and Besson derives inspiration for her sparkling and high-spirited jazz electronics ground-breaking sound art, together with Collectief iii (Instrument compositions from compelling rock, meditative post-rock, incisive Inventors Initiative). Gabriel Paiuk’s Focus, a sound installation improvisations, and relaxed melodic jazz. It is as if you tune into consisting of approximately 20 loudspeakers, can be experienced at your favourite radio station and discover something new, time after 3 o’clock in the Willem Twee Kunstruimte. time. The other members of the quartet are keyboardist Benjamin Moussay and percussionist Fabrice Moreau with singer Isabel The expedition finishes at 4 o’clock with a performance by the Dutch Sorling in a remarkable role as her fragile voice seduces and band Perforator in the Willem Twee Poppodium. Perforator is the enchants. energetic duo Marlies van Gangelen (hobo) and the electronics wizard Akim Moiseenkov. It combines rock structures with homemade synthesizers.

18 19 STOK UIT HOED (6+) HOMO INSTRUMENTALIS SLAGWERK DEN HAAG / ALJAŽ ŠON SILBERSEE Georges Aperghis / Luigi Nono / Yannis Kyriakides

Sun 5 Nov Percussionists are sound conjurers. They may even be compared It appears that humans and machines are doomed to each other. Sun 5 Nov Verkadefabriek to illusionists, who perform miracles with their magic wands. This The music theatre company (and vocal ensemble) Silbersee Verkadefabriek Kleine Zaal performance is a case in point. Stok uit Hoed (Wand out of a hat) is closely monitoring Homo Instrumentalis as it presents four Grote Zaal 3-4 PM is an enthralling concert for children (6+). Slagwerk Den Haag compositions that explore our relationship with technology. 8.30-9.45 PM € 8 / € 5 / € 4 and illusionist Aljaž Šon use musical enchantment to delight their In Machinations, Georges Aperghis subjects the human voice € 18 / € 15 / € 9 audience. In turn, the audience helps them in the search for the to an infernal mechanism that contains pure poetry. Ode to Man music theatre / magic of music and the sound of illusion. The instruments on stage (part I and II) by Yannis Kyriakides is a brand-new work in which composed / family concert have a magical purpose; something musical lurks beneath the the composer decodes the ironic and prophetic texts written by modern vocal / tricks. the ancient Greek tragedian Sophocles. Also on the menu is Luigi music theatre Nono’s classic La fabbrica illuminata.

Prior to the concert, a conversation takes place in Verkadefabriek Clubzaal at 7.30 PM as (hands-on) experts debate whether we are in the clutches of technology. Or is it the other way round? No cover charge. 20 21 Mon 6 through Fri 10 Nov 4-9 PM Sat 11 & Sun 12 Nov 11 AM-9 PM Willem Twee FOCUS Kunstruimte free GABRIEL PAIUK installation

Focus is a sound installation consisting of 20 loudspeakers in different sizes. As visitors walk or linger in the room they cross and explore various sound fields. Paiuk uses sounds from our fully saturated daily media landscape as source materials. A focused listening experience that triggers all the senses.

Mon 6 Nov Verkadefabriek Serre 11 AM-12.10 PM free 1’26” installation / ANGELA DE WEIJER performance

INSTALLATIE EXPEDITIE KRUITHUIS 1’26” is a special performance. It is the first milestone for the composer as she works on a iii: Peter Bosch & Simone Simons / Mariska de Groot / Yuri Landman / swan song for the air raid alarm in the Netherlands, which will cease to exist in 2020. The Dmitry Morozov / Jeroen Uyttendaele siren presently blares every first Monday of the month but innovation will catch up with this characteristic sound that has collective significance. An exhibition will run during the festival Mon 6 through Sound artist Horst Rickels is leading this Installation Expedition in addition to the performance on Monday 6 November. Thurs 9 Nov through the atmospheric caverns at Kruithuis. A location where 5.30-6.30 PM ancient sacral rituals are lifted towards the current time path. Mon 6 through Sat 11 Nov Fri 10 Nov 2-3 & 4-5 PM Collectief iii (Instrument Inventors Initiative) has programmed a 9 AM-9 PM Kruithuis complete exhibition with installations and groundbreaking sound Sat 11 & Sun 12 Nov € 8 / € 5 / € 4 art. Sound artist and specialist Matteo Marangoni is the curator. 11 AM-9 PM Willem Twee installations / Peter Bosch and Simone Simons with their ‘music machines’ LUISTERHUIS Kunstruimte performance / visualise and give voice to the transience that is embedded in ROZALIE HIRS / MACHIEL SPAAN free electronics labour processes. Yuri Landman has designed some wayward and inventive musical instruments. Dmitry Morozov uses robotics, A Luisterhuis (Listening house) is an alternative for the traditional doll’s house, where sound art, and scientific elements whereas Mariska de Groot playing revolves around visual and tactile experiences such a looking and building. and Jeroen Uyttendaele have been tinkering with the relationship Spaan designed the Luisterhuis as an interactive sound sculpture, together with between light and sound for the benefit of their installations. composer Rozalie Hirs. It consists of seven abstract ‘rooms’ with sound sensors. 22 23 OVER DE BEIAARDIER DIE IN EEN KLOK VERANDERDE GODVERDOMSE DAGEN OP EEN GODVERDOMSE BOL Jorrit Tamminga / Katinka Polderman / Paul and Menno de Nooijer DIMITRI VERHULST & CORRIE VAN BINSBERGEN ENSEMBLE

Mon 6 Nov A surreal tragicomedy about a bell ringer and his son by composer Dimitri Verhulst outlines the evolution of humanity in his inimitable Mon 6 Nov Verkadefabriek Jorrit Tamminga and the film/performance duo Paul and Menno de and ironic style in Godverdomse dagen op een godverdomse bol Verkadefabriek Kleine Zaal Nooijer. This time they are collaborating with the Dutch stand-up (Damned days on a damned globe). Starting from the moment Clubzaal 8.15 PM & comedian Katinka Polderman who hilariously manages to wrong- we began to walk upright on two legs through the years when 9-10.15 PM 9-10.15 PM foot anybody and everybody with her dry-as-dust sense of humour. we started to bomb each other to kingdom come. € 15 / € 12 / € 7,50 € 15 / € 12 / € 7,50 She is truly an ideal sparring partner for both De Nooijers. Their teamwork rings all the right bells. Corrie van Binsbergen has composed a musical trip to go with this composed / ‘curriculum of dirty tricks’. The result is an exciting film for the ears. jazz / music theatre / As in earlier successful performances, such as Jane and Half The Van Binsbergen skims along literary ravines and unprecedented music theatre / visual music / Horizon, the father-and-son duo is working with the prolific team- musical heights. She does so together with Verhulst and her nine- composed electronics of-three Erik Bosgraaf (recorder), Izhar Elias (guitar), and Jorrit person hybrid ensemble that combines jazz, rock, classical, and Tamminga (composition and electronics) and they have added modern music. Corrie van Binsbergen made a name for herself in percussionist/composer Bart de Vrees to the mix. The musical the past decades with literary concerts in the same vein and has quartet is perfectly in tune with the humoristic and theatrical worked with various renowned Dutch writers, including Remco collection of curiosities put together by the De Nooijers and Campert and Toon Tellegen. Polderman. 24 25 DISCONNECT THE STEREOGRAPHY PROJECT FT. JEFF TAYLOR ROBIN COOPS / M31 FOUNDATION MARIKE VAN DIJK

Tues 7 Nov The young Dutch theatre maker/composer Robin Coops and M31 A gracious cross-pollination between deep-rooted singer/song- Tues 7 Nov Verkadefabriek Foundation paint a picture of a spectacular ‘brave new world’ in writer vocals, jazz, and cinematic indie pop. Saxophonist Marike Verkadefabriek Kleine Zaal their new performance Disconnect. It is a visionary music-theatre van Dijk’s music cannot easily be pigeonholed. She regularly Clubzaal 7-8.15 PM performance about the necessary balance between happiness and commutes between New York and the Netherlands, Van Dijk views 8.30-9.45 PM € 12 / € 9 / € 6 unhappiness, set in a futuristic era when all humans have uploaded herself as a worldly woman and her music has a similar ‘flavour’. € 13 / € 10 / € 6,50 their brain. As a result, the body has become a useless vehicle music theatre / whereas people are able to live forever in ‘The Cloud’. Singer/songwriters Jeff Taylor and Katell Keineg from New York jazz / rock / composed / are special guests of Van Dijk’s 12-person band. Taylor regularly composed rock The protagonist, Low, has not yet digitalised himself following joins forces with the Donny McCaslin band of David Bowie’s album an accident. Coops and his team create a dream world in which Blackstar fame. Katell shared a stage with Natalie Merchant. dizzying projections, video art, electronic soundscapes, and texts Saxophonist Ben van Gelder, piano player Franz von Chossy, take the viewer into a new theatrical dimension. and drummer Mark Schilders are also part of The Stereography Project.

26 27 INDUSTRY & IDLENESS REVELATIONS HEINER GOEBBELS WIM HENDERICKX Ensemble Insomnio led by Ulrich Pöhl Muziektheater Transparant / Cappella Amsterdam / HERMESensemble

Tues 7 Nov Like a true alchemist, the German composer and theatre maker Silence and aural beauty play a pivotal role in Wim Henderickx’s Wed 8 Nov Verkadefabriek Heiner Goebbels forges alliances between narratives, music, meditative compositions. The Belgian composer took the Verkadefabriek Grote Zaal and theatrical discoveries. His passionate music theatre always impressive visions of the 13th-century poetess and mystic Grote Zaal 8.30-10.30 PM retains its topicality and emotional impact. Goebbels has created Hadewijch d’Anvers as his point of departure for Revelations. 6.45-7.45 PM € 15 / € 12 / € 7,50 trail-blazing productions for Holland Festival, Ruhrtriënnale, and The mystic sought an ecstatic connection with the godly ‘Other’. € 15 / € 12 / € 7,50 Centre Pompidou in the past. November Music 2013 featured his The terrorist attacks that affected Belgium in 2017 have also composed / impressive Songs of Wars I Have Seen. permeated Revelations. composed / music theatre music theatre / Together with Goebbels, Ensemble Insomnio presents a ‘The metaphysical is very topical in my artistic life at present. electronics / comprehensive programme that showcases all aspects of his I want to break open time as well as musical genres and visual music musical theatrical vision. Goebbels himself will attend this religions’, says the composer. Influences from medieval and special night and has designed the staging. The scenic concert renaissance music merge with the tranquil electronic sounds encompasses the dynamic work Industry and Idleness and that Jorrit Tamminga subtly adds. The work is performed by the Mon 6 Nov Heracles 2, written for a modest ensemble. Add to this the HERMESensemble, Cappella Amsterdam, and soprano Lore Verkadefabriek dancelike and sometimes lyrical Samplersuite and La Jalousie, Binon. Video artist Kurt d’Haeseleer created the compelling Filmzaal 1 with its welcoming sound and nocturnal mood. visuals. 3.30-5 PM free Heiner Goebbels will give a talk entitled Aesthetics of Absence on Monday 6 November about his work and opinions on music reading theatre.

28 29 COMPOSER PORTRAITS

Publications can be downloaded at www.novembermusic.net/ componistenportretten

FORTRESS EUROPE CALLIOPE TSOUPAKI Opera Trionfo / Asko|Schönberg / Netherlands Student Chamber Choir

Wed 8 Nov Old Europe is buckling under the weight of refugees looking for Theater aan help. The problem is more pressing than ever and hereby reflected de Parade in challenging modern music theatre. Composer Calliope Tsoupaki 8.30-10 PM and theatre director Floris Visser are breathing down the neck € 23 / € 20 / € 11,50 of current events in the probing Fortress Europe. It is the first instalment of Sign of the Times, a series of operas that will be composed / created as the makers zero in on history in the making. music theatre / modern vocal ‘The refugee crisis. Few subjects suitable for opera are as topical … The Greek/Dutch composer Calliope Tsoupaki writes unparalleled music… Wondrous!’ (****) Theaterkrant.

Composer Calliope Tsoupaki will be interviewed in Theater aan de Parade prior to the performance (7.30-8 PM).

30 31 12-1 PM 1-1.30 PM QUARTETTO MAURICE AART STROOTMAN Anthony Fiumara / Silvia Borzelli / Anthony Fiumara Iannis Xenakis / Simon Steen-Andersen

1.30-2.30 PM 2.30-2.50 PM F.C. JONGBLOED INTERVIEW WITH LED BY AART STROOTMAN ANTHONY FIUMARA Anthony Fiumara / Aart Strootman / door Bert Palinckx FIUMARATHON David Lang / studenten AMPA ANTHONY FIUMARA / AART STROOTMAN / MAYKE NAS / REZA NAMAVAR AND OTHERS Ragazze Quartet / Quartetto Maurice / Ralph van Raat and others

Thurs 9 Nov Anthony Fiumara is November Music 2017’s festival composer. Willem Twee His work features in several concerts and during the dedicated Concertzaal ‘Fiumarathon’. His music has great emotional depth. He builds 3.15-3.45 PM 3.45-4.45 PM (formerly his compositions using crystal-clear lines and delicate musical RIANNE WILBERS RALPH VAN RAAT De Toonzaal) brainwaves. The music appears timeless; it incorporates & TOM SANDERMAN Anthony Fiumara / Pim Moorer / 12-5.30 PM transparent sound fabrics and insightful structures that lure you Anthony Fiumara / Remy Alexander Daan Manneke / Aspasia Nasopoulou € 20 / € 17 / € 10 in. His compositions are influenced by minimal and renaissance techniques and by rock’s directness. composed / minimal music The Fiumarathon in the Willem Twee Concert Hall encompasses early and new works by Fiumara as well as compositions by kindred spirits such as Mayke Nas, Aspasia Nasopoulou, Pim Moorer, Daan Manneke, Silvia Borzelli, and Remy Alexander. The musicians include pianist Ralph van Raat, guitarist Aart 4.45-5.30 PM Strootman, saxophonist Tom Sanderman, and the string quartets RAGAZZE QUARTET Ragazze Quartet and Quartetto Maurice. Anthony Fiumara / Mayke Nas / Reza Namavar

32 33 FIELD RECORDINGS BANG ON A CAN ALL-STARS David Lang / Steve Reich / Bryce Dessner / Michael Gordon / Aart Strootman and others

BUSHRANGER PSYCHODRAMA The Bang on a Can All-Stars are icons of today’s American musical Thurs 9 Nov KATE MOORE landscape. The concerts of the New York ensemble are always an Verkadefabriek Iarla Ó Lionáird / Quartetto Maurice / Mey-Li Yee adventure and the group of top musicians has played ultra dynamic Grote Zaal gigs since 1992 as they raze the boundaries between minimal, jazz, 8.15-9.30 PM Thurs 9 Nov Kate Moore’s latest November Music composition commission is world music, and contemporary composed. The roll of honour of the € 20 / € 17 / € 10 Verkadefabriek Bushranger Psychodrama. It was specifically written for the heart- All-Stars is breath-taking. It varies from Steve Reich and Ornette Clubzaal rending voice of the Irish traditional folk singer Iarla Ó Lionáird, Coleman to Tan Dun, Thurston Moore, and Philip Glass. 6.45-7.45 PM who earlier worked with The Gloaming and composers such as gecomponeerd / € 15 / € 12 / € 7,50 Gavin Bryars and Donnacha Dennehy. Field Recordings challenged composers from around the world to minimal music Iarla Ó Lionáird is accompanied by the Italian string quartet write a short work, lasting five to seven minutes, based on a field composed / rock Quartetto Maurice and percussionist Mey-Li Yee. recording. A vibrant collection of works continued to accrue. The All-Stars are serving up some highlights during November Music. Bushranger Psychodrama is an intense work about Australian Compositions of David Lang, Steve Reich, Bryce Dessner, Christian bushrangers (woodsmen) who are seen as some sort of popular Marclay, and Julia Wolfe will be on the menu. The Dutch composer heroes in the context of the rebellion against the English Aart Strootman, who won the Gaudeamus Music Award 2017, adds oppressors. Moore’s fascinating mini-drama is preceded by two fresh work to this extended catalogue, commissioned by November virtuoso solo pieces, played by contrabassist Robert Black and Music. cellist Ashley Bathgate of the Bang on a Can All-Stars.

34 35 TROPARION SHORELINES ROB ZUIDAM OLIVER COATES Stolz Ensemble / Helena Rasker Ragazze Quartet

Fri 10 Nov The Dutch composer Rob Zuidam knows how to translate the The young British composer and cellist Oliver Coates is the fastest Fri 10 Nov Willem Twee magic of opera into the 21st century like no other. Zuidam’s rising star in the crossover area between rock and classical Verkadefabriek Concertzaal musical universe has a distinctive theatrical side; he is attracted music. Fact magazine already called him the secret weapon of Kleine Zaal (formerly by the poetic power of words. His intimate narration Troparion is the Radiohead rock gods. Coates collaborated with Radiohead 7-8 PM & De Toonzaal) performed by the Stolz Ensemble with alto Helena Rasker. ‘The on their latest album A Moon Shaped Pool and played on Jonny 9-10 PM 12.30-1.30 PM story is about hope and melancholy, about being trapped in the Greenwood’s soundtrack for There Will Be Blood. € 15 / € 12 / € 7,50 € 15 / € 12 / € 7,50 present, and about the inability to bridge the gap between the past and the future’, said Zuidam about Troparion. Coates made his debut with the much-lauded album Upstepping composed / rock / composed / last year as he lifted his cello sound to new dimensions somewhere visual music modern vocal Zuidam has written the composition with Helena Rasker’s between dance, ambient, and minimal. This time the composer extraordinary voice in mind. She plays a woman who sheds tears throws in his lot with the four ladies of the Dutch Ragazze Quartet. on a dead branch in the hope that God will inject it with life so new Coates’ new quartet composition Shorelines was inspired by the leaves, flowers, and fruits appear. She also tells stories from the North Sea Flood of 1953. The evocative concert explores both the Middle Ages and from the chronicles of Byzantine saint’s lives. splendour and the devastating power of the sea.

36 37 Colours of Improvisation Bill Frisell / Sabîl Quartet / Fulco Ottervanger and others

Fri 10 Nov Improvisation in every hue under the sun. November Music gives Verkadefabriek free reign to highly accmplished musicians from around the globe FULCO OTTERVANGER / MORRIS KLIPHUIS / Grote Zaal under the umbrella Colours of Improvisation. They bridge the gap JOACHIM BADENHORST / VALENTIN CECCALDI 7.30-11.45 PM between improvisation, jazz, composed music, and world sounds. € 28 / € 25 / € 14 The three acts sing the praises of improvisation and collective The Dutch pianist Fulco Ottervanger made his mark with the popular and maverick musicianship. Belgian jazz group De Beren Gieren. Now he has a new group, put together for the jazz / world music Colours of Improvisation. It consists of the French cellist Valentin Ceccaldi, the Belgian clarinettist Joachim Badenhorst, and the Dutch horn player Morris Kliphuis of jazz rock trio Kapok’s fame.

BILL FRISELL SABÎL QUARTET MUSIC FOR STRINGS The French/Arabic Sabîl Quartet shows how intimately the intricate sounds of Arabic This night’s headliner is Bill Frisell, an important improvising guitar player. He has folk music may be related to western improvisations. The group consists of oud worked with luminaries such as John Zorn, John Scofield, David Sylvian, and Brian player Ahmad Al Khatib and percussionist Youssef Hbeisch (Le Trio Joubran) with Eno. He brings his super group Music for Strings to November Music. It consist of contrabassist Hubert Dupont and bazuq player Elie Khoury. Eastern rhythms and violist Eyvind Kang, cellist Hank Roberts, and violinist Jenny Scheinman. Frisell and melodies mingle with western harmonies, seductively and serenely. Magical music the quartet will engage in a delicate dance of jazz, blues, rockabilly, bebop, folk, and in the vein of Rabih Abou-Khalil and Anouar Brahem, who played November Music liberating improvisations. A journey through America’s musical heart, with Frisell at an earlier point in time. as the perfect guide. 38 39 RAZENDE STILSTAND HET COLLECTIEF & KATRIEN BAERTS STOLZ QUARTET Rob Zuidam / Beat Furrer / Bram van Camp Jan van de Putte / Klaas de Vries

Fri 10 Nov The Stolz Quartet is capable of halting time in its tracks. Het Collectief is among the main chamber ensembles for Fri 10 Nov Muzerije Pleitzaal The versatile chamber ensemble presents a specially staged contemporary music in Belgium. It takes the roots of modernism Willem Twee 7-8 PM concert, dedicated to two world premieres by Jan van de Putte - the Second Viennese School – as its point of departure and Concertzaal € 15 / € 12 / € 7,50 and Klaas de Vries. Two Dutch composers who are unorthodox explores the panoramic beauty of modern chamber music. (formerly in their approach to music as they play magnificent games with De Toonzaal) composed time, silence, and concentration. Het Collectief presents at November Music (its first appearance) 8.30-9.30 PM with a varied programme, including the world premiere of a major € 15 / € 12 / € 7,50 The concert revolves around two elements from Japanese culture. work that has been commissioned from composer Rob Zuidam. One is the meditative tradition of Basho’s haikus, which describe It was written for quintet and Zuidam’s muse, the Belgian star composed / every moment as accurately as possible. Few words are needed soprano Katrien Baerts. In addition, Het Collectief plunges into modern vocal to divulge everything you need to know. In marked contrast with the effervescent composition AER by the Austrian composer Beat urban life, which appears to be accelerating on an ongoing basis. Furrer. The talented Belgian composer Bram Van Camp, who hails The new works written by Klaas de Vries and Jan van de Putte from Antwerp, wrote a timbral fantasy, Music for 3 Instruments. subtly juxtapose these two spheres.

40 41 PLUG GADIS PANTAI Hiele / Floris Vanhoof / Yuri Landman / Dimitry Morozov / GATOT DANAR SULISTIYANTO Mariska de Groot philharmonie zuidnederland / Bernadeta Asari

Fri 10 Nov Whereas the ancient smoke of battle has cleared and the historic Contemporary composed music from Indonesia is attracting Sat 11 Nov Kruithuis din of arms has grown silent a long time ago, PLUG sets ablaze the a lot of attention these days and Gatot Danar Sulistiyanto is Verkadefabriek 9 PM-1 AM beautiful Kruithuis (gunpowder magazine) one more time. Musical a remarkable young composer, who studied composition with Kleine Zaal € 12 / € 9 / € 6 adventurers and cultural daredevils are invited to stroll around Roderik de Man, among others. His intimate chamber opera 12.30-1.30 PM installations. Electronic fireworks will be set off in corridors and Gadis Pantai premieres during November Music 2017. It is a € 15 / € 12 / € 7,50 electronics / rooms all over the historic building. music-dramatic adaptation of Indonesian author Pramoedya installations / Ananta Toer’s eponymous novel Meisje van het strand composed / performances The evening starts with a circuit of the sound installations. Next, a (Girl from the coast). world music performance by film and sound artist Floris Vanhoof from Belgium. He combines projections with sounds from modular synthesizers The South Netherlands Philharmonic’s chamber music ensemble and explores hybrid combinations of music and photography/film. performs Gadis Pantai with a leading role for the talented soprano The Belgian electronics wizard Hiele gives his unique vision on the Bernadeta Astari, a laureate of the International Vocal Competition latest electronic music and intelligent dance music throughout the ’s-Hertogenbosch (IVC). Works by the Indonesian composers night. In addition there are performances by Yuri Landman, Dimitry Slamet Abdul Sjukur and Michael Asmara are also part of the Morozov, and Mariska de Groot. programme.

42 43 VICTORY! - VAN BINGEN TOT BOOGIE MAARTEN ORNSTEIN / MIKE FENTROSS / WISHFUL SINGING RIMA KHCHEICH Lucas Wiegerink / Joost Kleppe / Aspasia Nasopoulou and others

Sat 11 Nov The a Capella women’s group Wishful Singing asked three The a Capella women’s group Wishful Singing asked three Sat 11 Nov Azijnfabriek composers who are active in the Netherlands (Joost Kleppe, composers who are active in the Netherlands (Joost Kleppe, Bij Katrien 12.30-1.30 PM Aspasia Nasopoulou, and Lucas Wiegerink) to come up with new Aspasia Nasopoulou, and Lucas Wiegerink) to come up with new 2-3 PM € 12 / € 9 / € 6 work, inspired by the interplay of lines and the dynamics in the work, inspired by the interplay of lines and the dynamics in the € 12 / € 9 / € 6 art of Piet Mondrian. Each composer has a specific take on his art of Piet Mondrian. Each composer has a specific take on his composed / painting Victory Boogie Woogie, which culminates in a musical painting Victory Boogie Woogie, which culminates in a musical world music / modern vocal triptych. Wishful Singing also zigzags through the colourful history triptych. Wishful Singing also zigzags through the colourful history jazz / pop of choir music. The programme features work by Hildegard Von of choir music. The programme features work by Hildegard Von Bingen, Pisano, Bach, Vanessa Lann, and it finishes with an Bingen, Pisano, Bach, Vanessa Lann, and it finishes with an arrangement of … The Jacksons. arrangement of … The Jacksons.

44 45 THE SECRET DIARY OF NORA PLAIN MORRIS KLIPHUIS / LUCKY FONZ III Ragazze Quartet / Nora Fischer / Remco Menting BASEL RAJOUB SORIANA PROJECT Sat 11 Nov A world premiere by up-and-coming composing talent Morris FT. MATTHIAS LOIBNER Willem Twee Kliphuis who created a song cycle specifically for the Ragazze Concertzaal Quartet and soprano Nora Fischer. The Dutch singer/songwriter The Syrian saxophonist Basel Rajoub is fascinated by the Sat 11 Nov (formerly Lucky Fonz III wrote the lyrics, which has culminated in a brand- splendour of the Arabic music tradition. His intense passion and Verkadefabriek De Toonzaal) new song cycle. It revolves around a sinister story told in spun- respect for the seductive melodic riches and rhythms of Clubzaal 2-3.15 PM out songs for the soprano, framed with passionate string quartet Eastern music is audible in many of the multi-hued compositions. 4-5.30 PM € 15 / € 12 / € 7,50 sounds and the unpredictable rhythms of jazz. His music aims to span the gap between traditions from the Middle € 15 / € 12 / € 7,50 East, North Africa, and West Asia. composed / rock Kliphuis’ The Secret Diary of Nora Plain tells the intimate story of jazz / world music a young woman who tries to live her own life in a world that wants His recent album The Queen of Turquoise was recorded with his to probe her deepest thoughts and feelings. A personal and heart- new group Soriana, ‘our Syria’ with Feras Charestan, a virtuoso breaking account of the relationship between society, privacy, on the ganoun (Arabic cimbalom), percussionist Andrea Piccioni, paranoia, and erotica. and special guest Matthias Loibner on hurdy-gurdy. Rajoub and Soriana paint enthralling musical vistas that refer to a rich past as well as a painful present. 46 47 MINIMAL MUSIC MARATHON – PART 1

PITCH DARK MINIMAL GLAS[S] INTERLUDES ARNOLD MARINISSEN / KATHARINA GROSS SLAGWERK DEN HAAG Philip Glass / Anthony Fiumara

Sat 11 Nov A powerful interplay between light, shadow, music, and sound The American composer Philip Glass put down the building-blocks Sat 11 Nov Verkadefabriek theatre. Composer/percussionist Arnold Marinissen and cellist for minimal music in the 1960s and 1970s. He is surely one of the Verkadefabriek Matzer Katharina Gross are joining forces with light artist Giny Vos in hardest-working composers of the planet but continues to expand Grote Zaal 4-5 PM & 7-8 PM order to create hallucinatory light and sound theatre. Their piece his oeuvre. Whereas Glass’s current repertoire can barely be 5-6.15 PM € 12 / € 9 / € 6 Pitch Dark consists of six scenes. Gross and Marinissen spin designated minimal, the focus is on his legendary early work in this € 15 / € 12 / € 7,50 a musical thread as light takes over the parts of the actors in special concert. composed / this new work. They play a game with the powers of perception minimal music performance during an exciting exchange between acoustic, optical, and Expert, fan, and festival composer Anthony Fiumara digs out the spatial stimuli. How does one experience music in utter darkness, prettiest Glass pearls together with Slagwerk Den Haag, including how does ‘pitch black’ influence our physical and psychological classics such as Music in Similar Motion, Music in Contrary observations? Motion and 1+1. Fiumara’s new work will also feature in today’s programme.

48 49 DE GESCHIEDENIS VAN DE WERELD IN TWEE UUR LACRIMOSA OR 13 MAGIC SONGS DICK VAN DER HARST MAXIM SHALYGIN Massive Central and others Shapeshift za 11 nov The Belgian composer Dick van der Harst is a past master at With his new commissioned work Lacrimosa or 13 Magic Songs, Sat 11 Nov Grote Kerk melding elements derived from jazz, classical music, and folk Maxim Shalygin delves deep into the sacral heart of the Mass for Willem Twee 6-7.30 PM music from around the world. His music provides the performing the Dead. The lacrimosa is the movement in the requiem where Concertzaal € 15 / € 12 / € 7,50 musicians with a lot of freedom. De Geschiedenis van de Wereld people ask their God for forgiveness and mercy. Shalygin did (formerly in Twee Uur (The History of the World in Two Hours) is executed not write Lacrimosa or 13 Magic Songs for voices but for seven De Toonzaal) composed / by a variegated ensemble that includes gamelan, bagpipes, violins. The one-hour work consists of several movements that are 7-8 PM world music singers, a bass saxophonist, and a cellist. dedicated to a specific technique, texture, and emotional state, € 12 / € 9 / € 6 says the composer. Shalygin’s passionate music is influenced by Van der Harst: ‘Of course there is a mixture of sounds and styles the apocalyptic visions of film directors such as Lars von Trier and composed but everything is united into a larger whole. The music just flows Andrej Tarkovski. Lacrimosa is performed by the new Shapeshift from agitated to tranquil. A journey from start to finish and back ensemble which includes, among others, the talented violinist again with spectacular moments along the way and long soothing Emmy Storms. lines in which the singers, like Sibyls, weave an oratorical thread.’

50 51 CORY HENRY & METROPOLE ORKEST Tin Men and the Telephone & Metropole Orkest

The Metropole Orkest is praised for its enormous versatility. Sat 11 Nov Many international composers, from Brian Eno to Ibrahim Maalouf; Theater aan have worked with the Grammy Award-winning orchestra that does de Parade KUS DE REGEN not recognize any musical limitations. On this Saturday night at 8.30-10.30 PM MICHA HAMEL November Music 2017, the Metropole Orkest spearheads a very € 28 / € 25 / € 14 Ensemble Michamix / Helena Rasker / Yela de Koning special double bill. jazz / rock Sat 11 Nov The composer and director Micha Hamel takes the epic poem Which of the musicians will get a solo? Do visitors have an idea for Verkadefabriek Renascence (1912) by Edna St. Vincent Millay as the starting point a melody line? Tin Men and the Telephone – a Dutch trio around Kleine Zaal for his new music theatre performance Kus de regen (Kiss the rain). pianist Tony Roe – and the Metropole Orchestra (a combination 8.30-9.30 PM of jazz big band and symphony orchestra) gave a unique concert € 15 / € 12 / € 7,50 Hamel has opted for a scenic musical ritual in which alto Helena last year in which the audience could co-direct the musicians via Rasker, actress Yela de Koning, and a small chamber music a smartphone app. It culminated in a big musical adventure that composed / ensemble give voice to the spiritual amazement of Renascence. deserved a follow-up. music theatre The performance is lyrical and transparent throughout just as After the interval, expect fireworks from the American keyboard the poem is crystal clear, without descending into empty rhetoric. player Cory Henry of Snarky Puppy’s power jazz fame. Henry Voices, text projections, singing, and seductive music lure the is an excellent pianist and organ player. His soulful jazz audience into an incredibly poetic world. improvisations have been known to send audiences into rapture. 52 53 MINIMAL MUSIC MARATHON – PART 2 MINIMAL MUSIC MARATHON – PART 3

PLANETARY SUNRISE THE SECOND DREAM TERRY RILEY LA MONTE YOUNG / MARIAN ZAZEELA Ragazze Quartet / Slagwerk Den Haag / Kapok The Theatre of Eternal Music Brass Ensemble

Sat 11 Nov ‘Pure magic’, wrote the British classical music magazine La Monte Young is known as the grandfather of minimal music. Sat 11 Nov Verkadefabriek Gramophone regarding the album Four Four Three. The Dutch The works of this seminal minimalist from the US are heard very Jheronimus Bosch Grote Zaal magazine Luister awarded 10 marks out of 10. A very successful rarely in Dutch concert halls. This is changing. The eight-person Art Center 8.30-9.45 PM and boundless collaboration between ensemble in residence trumpet cooperative The Theatre of Eternal Music Brass Ensemble 10.30-11.45 PM € 15 / € 12 / € 7,50 Ragazze Quartet, the improvisational trio Kapok, and Slagwerk will breathe into existence the mystical masterwork The Melodic € 15 / € 12 / € 7,50 Den Haag. Version (1984) of The Second Dream Of The High-Tension Line minimal music Stepdown Transformer From The Four Dreams of China (1962) The three ensembles pay an inspired and dazzling tribute to the by La Monte Young and Marian Zazeela. minimal music American minimal guru Terry Riley with their programme Planetary Sunrise as they play free interpretations of Riley’s magnum opus ‘Incredible highlight’, the daily newspaper Het Parool exclaimed In C and the Sunrise of the Planetary Dream Collector string following the Dutch premiere during the World Minimal Music quartet that is a staple of the Kronos Quartet’s repertoire. Festival 2017. Young’s music needs to be experienced live for Riley launched the minimal music movement when he wrote In C maximum effect. With its special acoustics, the Jheronimus Bosch Art in 1964. These spontaneous and stimulating Riley adaptations Center promises to be a unique location. Eight trumpet players are were wholeheartedly approved by the master himself. spread around the room as the serene composition slowly unfolds. Engrossing silences, meditative and harmonically perfect sounds, all played by musicians with an extremely accurate intonation create a hallucinatory experience as time momentarily holds its breath. 54 55 PORCELAIN SLOTCONCERT KATE MOORE JON BALKE SIWAN Slagwerk Den Haag

Sun 12 Nov The sounds of porcelain and ceramic objects fascinate the A spectacular encounter between East and West, classical and Sun 12 Nov Verkadefabriek Australian composer Kate Moore. During her residency at modern. The Norwegian pianist and composer Jon Balke creates Verkadefabriek Kleine Zaal the Europees Keramisch Werk Centrum in Oisterwijk, Moore a perfect balance between very different musical worlds that touch Grote Zaal 5-6.15 PM constructed ceramic instruments, which were specially customized upon and influence each other with Siwan. Improvisational elements 8.30-9.45 PM € 15 / € 12 / € 7,50 for Slagwerk Den Haag. Moore unleashes grandiose sound from European jazz intertwine with the melancholic melodious €18 / € 15 / € 9 landscapes using minimal resources. Her music offers panoramic richness of Arabic music and the soul of North Africa. With Siwan minimal music / views, with gradually shifting patterns and mesmerizing glimpses it is clear that Balke achieves the right balance in a musical land world music / jazz / electronics of what lies beyond. of many rivers. Ancient poetry from Al-Andalus (part of Spain) acts composed as a spiritual leitmotiv. Kate Moore studied with Louis Andriessen, collaborated with Bang on a Can All-Stars, and recently won the Matthijs Vermeulen ‘Rarely during the course of a listening year does a recording strike Award. Her work will also occupy central stage during the concert such emotional depth’, Billboard wrote about Jon Balke’s debut CD on Thursday 9 November featuring the legendary Irish singer Siwan, which it hails as a ‘cross-cultural masterpiece’. ECM Records Iarla Ó Lionáird of The Gloaming. is releasing the long-expected follow-up. To perfect his pioneering dream project, Balke has assembled a 14-person group that includes Derya Türkan (kemenche), Mona Boutchebak (vocals), Bjarte Eike (baroque violin), and Pedram Khavar Zamini (tompak). 56 57 Sun 12 Nov

Kunst HOW DOES IT WORK? muziek The KunstmuziekRoute comprises Thematic routes about 25 (mostly) brief concerts in The routes (such as the Performance extraordinary locations in the centre Route or Jazz Now Route) are mainly Route of ’s-Hertogenbosch. The concerts on intended as thematic ‘handles’. When Sun 12 Nov On foot or by bike? It is one the dilemmas you face during offer are very diverse (see page 60 and all is said and done visitors decide for Various locations November Music’s ‘traditional’ KunstmuziekRoute on the final further). themselves what concerts they want 11.30 AM-6 PM Sunday afternoon of the festival. Magnificent locations in the to go to while it is perfectly possible to c 20 / c 17 / c 10 inner city will be opening their doors between 11.30 AM and 6 PM. Access combine concerts on different routes. A single ticket provides a raft of choices from 25 or so concerts Tickets for the KunstmuziekRoute can composed / jazz / and performances. Visitors can compose their own programmes be exchanged for wristbands at a concert Can I buy a wristband on the door? world music / for while the concerts are allocated to different routes, the latter location on the day. This wristband It is possible to purchase a wristband at electronics / rock / are mere suggestions. provides access to all concerts. Visitors a concert venue. Tickets that have been music theatre / can freely decide which concerts they obtained in advance can be exchanged installations We have mapped the following routes. want to attend. In effect they ‘compose’ for a wristband at the concert location. their own routes. Most concerts are performed multiple times. There are some Do I have to be on time? JAZZ NOW PERFORMANCE walk-in concerts where people can come Visitors can come and go at some ‘walk- ROUTE ROUTE and go but only a specific number of in’ concerts. This is not possible at quiet PREMIÈRE BRABANTSE visitors can attend each concert. concerts or in smaller venues as this will ROUTE JAZZ ROUTE cause inconvenience to other visitors. WORLD BIGBAND The TIMETABLE (p 12) indicates whether ROUTE ROUTE it is possible to walk in and out. VISUAL MUSIC INSTALLATIE ROUTE ROUTE 58 59 KUNSTMUZIEK KUNSTMUZIEK ROUTE ROUTE JAZZ NOW JAZZ NOW ROUTE ROUTE

DANIEL HERSKEDAL

1.45-3 PM The Norwegian tubist Daniel Herskedal combines jazz and Verkadefabriek chamber music, folk, and musical influences from the East in Clubzaal a way that is both moving and powerful. His recent album, walk-in concert The Roc, was released by the adventurous Edition Records in the UK. Herskedal was greatly inspired by a train journey he undertook jazz / across Palestina, Syria, and Lebanon. chamber music / world music ‘One of the most interesting and musically diverse groups at work today.’ Jazz Wise

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SANNE RAMBAGS / JEROEN VAN VLIET / JAIMEO BROWN TRANSCENDENCE VINCENT COURTOIS

4.15-5.30 PM Gospel, blues, electronic music, and jazz combine in an inimitable The young (jazz) singer Sanne Rambags is one to cherish. 4.45-6 PM Verkadefabriek way in Transcendence, the group assembled by the American She handles improvisations, tranquillity, and melodic inventively Willem Twee Clubzaal drummer Jaimeo Brown. With its mix of old and new American precisely how she wants it. Early this year, the music venue Concertzaal walk-in concert musical traditions, Transendence has an entirely original sound. Paradox in Tilburg gave Rambags carte blanche and she invited (formerly Snippets of Coltrane go hand in hand with melancholic samples two instrumentalists – the Dutch pianist Jeroen van Vliet and De Toonzaal) jazz / electronics / of work songs, spirituals, and traditionals. French cellist Vincent Courtois – to go on a musical adventure walk-in concert spirituals with her. The result was a mesmerizing concert. The sequel will At the same time, hip hop is never far away and neither is the be performed at November Music 2017. The extremely versatile jazz / electronics / cultural and political climate in the US, which is visually present Van Vliet impresses time and again with his sensitive and lyrical rock during the concert. ‘Ingenious live music melded with an assortment piano playing. Vincent Courtois is one of today’s most sought-after of imagery and recordings to produce a show that underlined this improvising cellists. He has already shared a stage with Rabih trio’s unique ambitions,’ The Guardian. Abou- Khalil, Louis Sclavis, and others. 60 61 KUNSTMUZIEK KUNSTMUZIEK ROUTE ROUTE PREMIÈRE PREMIÈRE ROUTE ROUTE

THE SECRET DIARY OF NORA PLAIN MORRIS KLIPHUIS / LUCKY FONZ III PHILIP THOMAS Ragazze Quartet / Nora Fischer / Remco Menting (short version) Rozalie Hirs / Christopher Fox

11.30 AM-12 PM, Morris Kliphuis composed a song cycle for Ragazze Quartet and The British pianist Philip Thomas is expert at challenging 12-12.30 PM, 1-1.30 PM & singer Nora Fischer. The Dutch singer/songwriter Lucky Fonz III contemporary repertoire, with an interest in notated as well as 1-1.30 PM & 2.30-3 PM wrote the lyrics. Kliphuis’ The Secret Diary of Nora Plain is the improvised music. John Cage’s and Morton Feldman’s modern 2-2.30 PM Willem Twee intimate story of a young woman trying to lead her own life in a world classical piano repertoire is his spiritual bedrock. At November Muzerije Hofzaal Concertzaal that always wants to intrude. It is a sinister story told in spun-out Music he performs brand-new work by the Dutch composer no walk-in concert (formerly songs for soprano and framed with passionate string quartet sounds Rozalie Hirs. Her Meditations is a cycle for piano and electronic De Toonzaal) and the unpredictable rhythms of jazz. Morris Kliphuis is a horn sounds. Thomas also plays the recent piano composition Senza composed / no walk-in concert player with the improvisational trio Kapok and ensemble Stargaze Misura by Christopher Fox, a British composer who construes electronics as well as a composer. He previously he played with the Kyteman magical music using minimal resources. composed / rock Orchestra.

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JAMES OESI ANDREAS BORREGAARD Pieter Smithuijsen / Luciano Berio / Francois Rabbath Jennifer Walshe / Simon Steen-Andersen / Christiaan Richter / Niels Rønsholdt 1.30-2 PM, The South African contrabassist James Oesi has been a well-known 2.30-3 PM & figure on the Dutch (modern) classical music scene ever since his The Danish accordionist Andreas Borregaard performs premieres 1-1.30 PM, 3.30-4 PM arrival in the Netherlands. He is one of very few soloists on the of works by composers who seek a symbiosis between physical 2.30-3 PM & Museum Slager instrument. Oesi has already given high-profile performances in performance, theatre, and live music. Those same composers 4-4.30 PM no walk-in concert the Amsterdam Concertgebouw and at the Wonderfeel festival. regularly perform their own work; also at November Music. For Verkadefabriek The world-famous contrabassist Gary Karr has praised him example Jennifer Walshe (Ireland) and Simon Steen-Andersen Cabaretfirma composed effusively: ‘A sensitive musician who is very knowledgeable, has and Niels Rønsholdt (Denmark) have composed multidisciplinary no walk-in concert a lot to say, and is a natural and convincing artist.’ The contrabass and theatrical accordion pieces for Borregaard. On top of this, virtuoso plays pieces by Luciano Berio, Francois Rabbath, and a he premieres a piece that November Music has commissioned composed / premiere by the Dutch composer/bassist Pieter Smithuijsen as part from the Dutch composer Christiaan Richter. visual music / of the KunstmuziekRoute. music theatre 62 63 KUNSTMUZIEK KUNSTMUZIEK ROUTE ROUTE WORLD WORLD ROUTE ROUTE

CARAVAN

Caravan links East and West as classical chamber music, jazz, 12-1 PM and folk mingle and merge. The pianist and band leader Julian Verkadefabriek Schneem undertakes a trans-border trip, together with the Syrian Clubzaal oud player Jawa Manla, violinist Emmy Storms, and percussionist walk-in concert Jeroen Batterink. Pensive Arabic melodies and stirring Irish folk go hand in hand with enchanting chamber music and adventurous walk-in concert jazz. All of this is part of one overriding narrative: the power of (musical) diversity.

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SURESH VAIDYANATHAN & HEIKO DIJKER

2-2.30 PM, The Indian percussionist Suresh Vaidyanathan is seen as one of MATTHIAS LOIBNER 3-3.30 PM & the greatest virtuoso players on the ghatam, the oldest classical 4-4.30 PM Indian percussion instrument. Vaidyanathan is well-known for a A concert by Matthias Loibner on the hurdy-gurdy is a sensation. 11.30 AM-12 PM, Noordbrabants flawless finger technique and his specific sound when playing the The fiery Austrian master conjures the most fantastic sounds from 12.30-1 PM & Museum Statenzaal Indian clay pot. He has performed with stars such as Zakir Hussain this extraordinary medieval instrument. Loibner draws inspiration 1.30-2 PM no walk-in concert and Bickram Ghosh. Paul Simon invited him to contribute to his from music across the world. Folk, classical, and world music Theater Artemis album So beautiful or so what! During the KunstmuziekRoute, elements recur in his improvisations as he creates a very distinct (top floor) world music Vaidyanathan plays alongside Heiko Dijker, the Dutch tabla sound universe. no walk-in concert specialist per excellence, who studied percussion in India and world music / performed with members of the Dagar family and with Pandit theatre 64 Hariprasad Chaurasia. 65 KUNSTMUZIEK KUNSTMUZIEK ROUTE ROUTE VISUAL MUSIC VISUAL MUSIC ROUTE ROUTE

DRIE HOLLANDSE SCÈNES TEXTURES THOMAS BENSDORP MERIJN BISSCHOPS Sterre Konijn Prisma Trio

11.30-11.45 AM, Thomas Bensdorp combines contemprorary composed music, Iceland, with its unspoilt nature and haunting beauty, is a source of 3.30-4 PM & 1.30-1.45 PM & electronics, and rock with multimedia storylines. Drie Hollandse inspiration for many artists. The Dutch composer Merijn Bisschops 5-5.30 PM 3.30-3.45 PM Scènes is written for voice, electronics, and video. The performers set to music his experiences during a journey through Iceland in Muzerije Pleitzaal Verkadefabriek are vocalist Sterre Konijn and the composer himself. The work Textures. The way in which he registers the natural shapes and no walk-inconcert Filmzaal 5 consists of three brief surrealist ‘scenes’, built around visual colours of the landscape is deceptively simple; the music that no walk-in concert material from archives in the Netherlands, ranging from the1930s Bisschop has composed to accompany the photographs is serene visual music / to the 1950s. Images of the Post-War ‘tonal purity committee’, as well as overwhelming. Sound textures that subtly interlock minimal music / visual music / a cherry orchard in the Betuwe region, and female railroad guards and layers of minimalistic rhythmicity express the primal forces gecomponeerd soundscapes & form the basis for Bensdorp’s intriguing scenes. that shaped the landscape.The strings of the Prisma Trio render electronics / rock Textures in a way that makes for a colourful concert experience as music and photography give each other wings.

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iii: PETER BOSCH & SIMONE SIMONS / DE STRIJD MARISKA DE GROOT / YURI LANDMAN / NIELS DUFFHUES DMITRY MOROZOV / JEROEN UYTTENDAELE 11.30 AM-12 PM, 12-12.30 PM, Niels Duffhues is a well-known Dutch singer/songwriter who comes Music and visuals converge at Kruithuis, where the ancient sacral 1-1.30 PM, 2-2.30 PM & up with wayward dark songs. He has also been active as a solo ritual is lifted onto the current time path. 2.30-3 PM, 4-4.30 PM guitarist and film-maker in recent years. Duffhues thoughtfully Collectief iii (Instrument Inventors Initiative) has programmed 4-4.30 PM & Verkadefabriek marries his atmospheric guitar compositions with the visual arts as a location-specific exhibition with installations and groundbreaking 5.30-6 PM Filmzaal 4 well as with art films. The mood in these musical films is dusky and sound art. Various performances will be presented during the Kruithuis no walk-in concert subdued as the viewer/listener slides into a black-and-white world KunstmuziekRoute. Sound artist and expert Matteo Marangoni walk-in concert that slowly passes by. Duffhues latest musical art film De Strijd is the curator. Hosted by Horst Rickels. installations / visual music / (The Fight), commissioned by November Music, premieres at music theatre / rock / the KunstmuziekRoute. soundscapes & minimal music electronics 66 67 KUNSTMUZIEK KUNSTMUZIEK ROUTE ROUTE PERFOR- PERFOR- MANCE MINIATURE OPERA MANCE ROUTE VONK ROUTE

An entire opera in two minutes; a formidable challenge. Ensemble 1-1.30 PM, VONK launched a competition for composers last year. The idea 2-2.30 PM, I WILL CARRY YOU OVER HARD TIMES was to write a mini-opera with ‘Social Change’ as theme. VONK 3-3.30 PM & FALK HÜBNER / MAARTEN ZAAGMAN selected the best entrees by composers from various countries. 4-4.30 PM The result is a wonderful kaleidoscope of composition techniques Stadsbibliotheek 2-2.30 PM, Falk Hübner is a composer and theatre maker from Rotterdam and ideas with contributions from Nicholas Cline (US), Mateo Soto walk-in concert 3-3.30 PM & who creates experimental staged works that are part concert, (SP), Dario Palermo (IT) plus Anne-Maartje Lemereis and Marc 4-4.30 PM part performance, and part installation. His new piece I Will Carry Alberto (NL). Robin Coops is the director. composed / Stedelijk Museum You Over Hard Times sees the percussionist Maarten Zaagman music theatre Auditorium perform a musical choreograpy without instruments. All movements no walk-in concert are mimed synchronously with the soundtrack playing on the PERFORMANCE loudspeakers. The performer needs to switch ever faster between ROUTE composed / the absent instruments to bridge the distance between them ‘on 11.30 AM-12 PM, music theatre time’ in order to keep up with the soundtrack. ALICE 12.30-1 PM THANASIS DELIGIANNIS 1.30-2 PM, KUNSTMUZIEK 2.30-3 PM, ROUTE ALICE by the Greek/Dutch composer Thanasis Deligiannis, is a 3.30-4 PM, PERFOR- MANCE performance/installation inspired by Lewis Carroll’s world-famous 4.30-5 PM & ROUTE novel Through the Looking-Glass. The vistors themselves are also 5.30-6 PM performers. Alongside a group of ‘spect-actors’ they end up in an Pand 18 environment where the physical and the virtual start to merge. The no walk-in concert performance can accommodate maximally five people. (Please note: composed / Stroboscopic effects are used in this installation) music theatre music theatre SWAN[REMIX] JACQUELINE HAMELINK / JOHNNY LLOYD IN A LARGE OPEN SPACE PERFOR- Aart Strootman / Dyane Donck and others (short version) JAMES TENNEY MANCE f.c. Jongbloed led by Aart Strootman ROUTE 3-3.45 PM The performance swan[remix] sees the cellist/performer Jacqueline 5-5.45 PM Hamelink and the dancer/choreographer Johnny Lloyd enter The American composer James Tenney (1934-2006) is one of 1.30-2.30 PM Theater Artemis each other’s worlds. Common ground is the famous classic hit the most original musical thinkers of the 20st century. His vivid Grote Kerk (lower floor) Le Cygne (The Swan) by French composer Camille Saint-Säens. compositions are groundbreaking in terms of drone-based walk-in concert no walk-in concert Aart Strootman, Guy Harris, Richard van Kruysdijk, Laetitia van electronic and minimal music. The Fontys student ensemble Krieken, and Dyane Donck wrote new work inspired by The Swan. f.c. Jongbloed performs one of his unique participation works minimal music / composed / rock / Together, Hamelink and Lloyd search for a new synergy between In a Large Open Space (1994), under conductor Aart Strootman. composed performance / music and dance. As this spatial sound composition is performed, the audience dance can move freely through the room. 68 69 KUNSTMUZIEK KUNSTMUZIEK ROUTE ROUTE BRABANTSE BRABANTSE JAZZ ROUTE JAZZ ROUTE ROUTE ROUTE

NEIL VAN DER DRIFT / THORWALD JØRGENSEN / KOEN SMITS

12.30-1 PM, Drummer and composer Neil van der Drift arrives with a new 2-2.30 PM & trio. Not a run-of-the-mill jazz group but an ensemble that deftly 3.30-4 PM navigates between contemporary, rock, and jazz using cinematic Azijnfabriek soundscapes and thrilling improvisations. Van der Drift plays with walk-in concert the Norwegian/Dutch theremin player Thorwald Jørgensen and trumpet player Koen Smits, one of Brabant’s many jazz talents. jazz / rock / electronics

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ACOUSTIC TEMPTATION PAUL VAN KEMENADE & AART BERGWERFF BRAM STADHOUDERS & THE BIG BARREL ORGAN

3-3.30 PM, Saxophonist Paul van Kemenade’s jazz playing subtly merges with Guitarist and composer Bram Stadhouders has a thing for 1-1.30 PM, 4-4.30 PM & organist Aart Bergwerff’s classical music in Acoustic Temptation. the largest mobile dance organ in the world, the Rhapsody. 2-2.30 PM, 5-5.30 PM Both worlds meet each other halfway in the atmospheric Grote Kerk. Stadhouders plays the enormous organ via his guitar and laptop. 3-3.30 PM & Grote Kerk Paul van Kemenade is admired for his powerful and lyrical output Rhapsody is seven metres long and five metres high and it weighs 4-4.30 PM walk-in concert and his broad approach to modern jazz. Organist Aart Bergwerff over five ton. Tramkade is passionate about the classical repertoire, especially Bach. The organ contains eight hundred organ pipes, 12 percussion walk-in concert jazz / composed Moreover, he is always looking for new ways and forms that would instruments, and two accordions. Stadhouders composes his jazz / soundscapes suit the organ. pieces specifically for this impressive instrument. & electronics

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HET BRABANTS JAZZ ORKEST NIKO LANGENHUIJSEN

Bassist and jazz composer Niko Langenhuijsen is an icon of 11.30 AM-12.30 PM the Dutch contemporary jazz scene. Langenhuijsen has written Bij Katrien new work, specifically for November Music and Het Brabants walk-in concert Jazz Orkest, in which he plays a weird and wonderful game with contexts. ‘Part of the orchestra or perhaps the entire orchestra can jazz become the rhyhm section. Or, the rhyhm section may be allocated a more melodic role. In terms of orchestration you can combine different sections (or parts thereof) to achieve different timbres’, says the composer. Het Brabants Jazz Orkest is conducted by Jeroen Doomernik.

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HOW FLORA AND FAUNA BECAME FRIENDS CLOSE CALL JESSE PASSENIER ARTHUR WAGENAAR Codarts Big Band / Reinier Baas A world without smartphones? We can barely imagine it any more. 12.30-1.15 PM, 3.30-4.30 PM Jesse Passenier, a young composer, recently won the Rogier van The impact of the device on our comings and goings is larger 2.30-3.15 PM & Bij Katrien Otterloo Award. Now he is embarking on an adventure with the than we dare to admit. Are you looking at your phone 101 times a 4.30-5.15 PM walk-in concert ‘uncrowned king of contemporary jazz’ (Jazzism) aka guitarist day? Who do you follow? The Dutch composer Arthur Wagenaar Verkadefabriek Reinier Baas. Together with the Codarts Big Band, they immerse has created a musical performance about the impact of the Matzer jazz themselves in a musical fantasy world. A realm with intangible and smartphone. At the start of Close Call visitors need to switch on no walk-in concert mythical beings, opulent paradise gardens, and magical mysteries. their smartphones and install the free app CLOSE CALL LIVE. Anything and everything – ranging from a fearful flight to loving In other words, turn your phone into a musical instrument and play jazz / rock / encounters – could cross your path during their communal journey, along with a 10-person band, including three drummers. But be composed / How Flora and Fauna Became Friends. alert! For the big question is, ‘Are you playing your phone or is soundscapes & your phone playing you?!’ electronics 72 73 MORE ABOUT Would you like to find out more about a composer’s Additional and updated information can be found MUSIC or musician’s motives or about the stories behind the on our website www.novembermusic.net music? November Music organises various activities that provide a look behind the scenes.

Sat 4 Nov ZORN 2010-2017 INLEIDINGEN FOR PROFESSIONALS Verkadefabriek Filmzaal 1 The French actor/film director Mathieu Amalric recorded • Sun 5 Nov, see page 21 November Music has lined up several 10-11 AM parts of John Zorn’s life in the course of seven years. A conversation about people and activities for professionals only. € 8 / € 5 / € 4 technology, leading up to Homo documentary Instrumentalis. • Donemus Academy (Mon 6 Nov) • Expertmeeting about music workshops Mon 6 Nov HEINER GOEBBELS • Mon 6 Nov, see page 23 and breeding grounds (Tues 7 Nov) Verkadefabriek Filmzaal 1 AESTHETICS OF ABSENCE Sound artist Angela de Weijer on with bkkc 3.30-5 PM The German composer and music theatre maker Heiner 1’26’’. • Kruithuis visit (Thurs 9 Nov) with free Goebbels gives a talk based on his book Aesthetics of De Kunst van Brabant talk Absence, published in 2015, in which he describes the • Wed 8 Nov, see page 30 • Visit to analogue studio Willem Twee hierarchical structures that appear to be the norm for western Composer Calliope Tsoupaki on Music and Visual arts (Fri 10 Nov) theatre productions. Fortress Europe. • Composers’ day New Geneco (Sat 11 Nov) Wed 8 nov DE PONT MUSEUM: RUIMTE VOOR KUNST • Thurs 9 Nov, see page 32 • International visitors programme Verkadefabriek Filmzaal 4 Dutch documentary, pursuant to the 25th anniversary Composer Anthony Fiumara on what for (foreign) programmers 8.30-8.30 PM of Museum De Pont that has been November Music’s spurs him as a composer. (Fri 10 through Sun 12 Nov) € 5 / € 4 / € 2,50 collaborative partner for years. With music by documentary & Machinefabriek and an introduction by maker conversatation Maarten de Kroon. EDUCATION Cultural education is vital to stimulate the Thurs 9 nov SASKIA SCHOUTEN & RAGAZZE QUARTET appreciation and understanding of new COMPOSER PORTRAITS Verkadefabriek Clubzaal Violin maker Saskia Schouten has built instruments for music among children and teenagers. November Music has commissioned 8.15-21.45 PM a brand-new string quartet which she will be presenting November Music has invited pupils of the musicologist and journalist Joep free together with the Ragazze Quartet. primary and secondary schools and Christenhusz to write a portrait of festival presentation (music) students to workshops, talks, composer Anthony Fiumara entitled, What concerts, and sound installations. you hear is what you hear. The booklet It collaborates closely with the Fontys can be obtained during the festival. Some vr 10 nov BILL FRISELL, A PORTRAIT Academy for Music and Performing Arts of the composer portraits made for earlier Verkadefabriek Filmzaal 5 An intimate documentary by director Emma Franz about Tilburg. festival editions are also available. 3-5.15 PM the atypical guitar hero Bill Frisell who will perform later € 8 / € 5 / € 4 this evening (Colours of Improvisation). All publications can be downloaded from documentary the website.

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ANTHONY FIUMARA RAGAZZE QUARTET

Concerts: ‘The same anew, James Joyce has written. A beautiful motto: Concerts: The Ragazze Quartet plays classical and modern string • Thurs 2 Nov always the same but from a different perspective.’ Composer • Thurs 9 Nov quartets at the highest level and with passion. Bosch Requiem - in focus Anthony Fiumara (1968) recognizes these aesthetics Fiumarathon Memorial Park in the work of leading modernists such as Cage, Xenakis, Many of its programmes attract a lot of attention and the and Feldman but also in progressive rock and the oeuvre • Thurs 9 Nov quartet has developed into one of the most refreshing and • Thurs 2 Nov of performance artist Laurie Anderson. The same created Saskia Schouten trendsetting contemporary music ensembles. Ragazze Fiumarathon anew – the idea is a thread that runs through Fiumara’s entire regularly enters into collaborations with the most original various works catalogue, ranging from static orchestral works, rugged solos, • Fri 10 Nov voices from various musical genres, theatre, and dance. electronic crackling music to shapely songs. Always in search Shorelines • Sat 11 Nov of the same thing albeit hidden in guises of beauty. The Ragazze Quartet has worked with a wide variety of Minimal Glas[s] • Sat 11 Nov / Sun 12 Nov musicians including the German clarinettist/composer Jörg Interludes Early and brand-new works by Anthony Fiumara will be The Secret Diary Widmann, the Iranian kamancheh player Kayhan Kalhor, featured at November Music 2017. Memorial Park written of Nora Plain and the Finnish accordionist Kimmo Pohjonen. The string in the context of the Bosch Requiem, which is performed by quartet is ensemble in residence at November Music the Netherlands Chamber Choir, premieres on 2 November. • Sat 11 Nov 2017 where it plays concerts with Oliver Coates, Kapok, Fiumara studied musicology and initially worked as a music Planetary Sunrise Slagwerk Den Haag, Anthony Fiumara, and Morris Kliphuis. journalist. His in-depth knowledge of minimal music is reflected, among others, in the choices he made, together with Slagwerk The members of the Ragazze Quartet are Rosa Arnold Den Haag, when selecting the works for the Minimal Glas[s] (violin), Jeanita Vriens (violin), Annemijn Bergkotte (viola) programme on 11 November. There will also be a Fiumarathon and Rebecca Wise (cello). on 9 November as a raft of top musicians perform his work. 76 77 LOCATIONS 4

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BOSCHDIJKSTRAAT1 1 Verkadefabriek Boschdijkstraat 45 2 3 2 Willem Twee Poppodium Boschdijkstraat 100 DIEZEBRUG 3 Willem Twee Kunstruimte Boschdijkstraat 100 TRAMKADE

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SINT JOSEPHSTRAAT T 9 10 Parade 23 BOISSINGEL SNELLESTRAAT 15 Theater aan de Parade MARKT HINTHAMERSTRAAT ST JANSSINGEL

16 Bij Katrien Triniteitstraat 17 SCHILDER

JULIANA PRINSENSTR MONS 6 JACOBSTR ST PLEIN T K 11 R 17 Noordbrabants Museum MAGISTRATENLAAN A M KERKSTRAAT N VERWERSTRAAT 12 E

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PRINS S E ZUIDWAL W E G 78 79 PRACTICAL INFORMATION November Music 2017 takes place at various locations in ’s-Hertogenbosch. The central festival hub is the conservatory ACCESSIBILITY (serre) in Verkadefabriek where you can have a drink and lounge & PARKING to our DJ’s music. November Music 2017 takes places at various locations across VPRO Radio will broadcast from Verkadefabriek. ’s-Hertogenbosch (see map). Verkadefabriek is the central festival hub. The venue is easily accessible from the train station and by car and there is plenty of room to park. The multi-storey car parks TICKET SALES Wolvenhoek or St.-Jan are convenient to the other concert venues Tickets for November Music 2017 are for sale on in the city centre. Renting an OV bicycle could be handy if you intend www.novembermusic.net or at the box office in Verkadefabriek to visit various locations within a short space of time. (T: 00 31 73 681 81 60). It is possible to buy tickets at the respective concert venues (unless sold-out) during the festival. ACCOMMODATION DISCOUNT PASSES: IN ’S-HERTOGENBOSCH MEDIUM & XL Reserving a few days to visit November Music is worth it. Would you like to visit several concerts during November Music 2017 And not just because of the music. ‘s-Hertogenbosch (Den Bosch) or visit a concert with a group of people? Hopefully one of our has a historic and hospitable city centre with plenty of things discount passes will suit your situation. to see and do. Accommodation is available in various hotels and The Festival pass Medium (c 12.50) entitles you to a c 3 discount B&Bs. on every ticket; you can order multiple tickets per concert. The Festival pass XL (€ 37.50) is strictly individual and you will get a 50% discount per ticket. Please note, you should buy the discount CONTACT pass and wait for the confirmation email before ordering any tickets! November Music www.novembermusic.net The passes do not apply to the John Zorn concerts on Saturday Boschdijkstraat 45 [email protected] 4 November. You can purchase special combination tickets for 5211 VD ’s-Hertogenbosch these concerts.

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