100Th Dies Natalis 8 November 2013

Erasmus Universiteit Rotterdam

100th Dies Natalis 8 November 2013

Academic Ceremony

Cortèges and academic hymns

Flashback 100 years in retrospective

Welcome Pauline van der Meer Mohr Pauline van der Meer Mohr, President of the Executive Board

Erasmus School of Economics Centennial Lecture A course made good Professor Philip Hans Franses, Dean of the Erasmus School of Economics

Honorary Doctorates Ceremony

Intermezzo Oblivion (Astor Piazolla) for dancers & brass

Dies Natalis Lecture Professor Philip Hans Franses Erasmus University’s Impact on students, science and society Professor Henk Schmidt, Rector magniﬁcus

Change of rectorship Professor Henk Schmidt and Professor Huibert Pols

The future needs an open mind Professor Huibert Pols, Rector magniﬁcus

Finale

Reception Professor Henk Schmidt

Dinner and concert

Buffetdinner

Concert Rotterdam Philharmonic

Intermezzo Professor Huibert Pols Cortèges and academic hymns

Performers (see page 27): Choir Solists Jeugdtheater Hofplein Erasmus Students Choir ‘Rotterdamsch Schoon’ Rotterdam Philharmonic Brass

Community singing

Entrance of student organisations

lo vivat Io vivat Io vivat Io vivat Io vivat Io vivat

4 nostrorum sanitas nostrorum sanitas nostrorum sanitas Hoc est amoris poculum, Dum nihil est in poculo, Nos iungit amicitia doloris est antidotum iam repleatur denuo et vinum praebet gaudia Io vivat Io vivat Io vivat Io vivat Io vivat Io vivat nostrorum sanitas nostrorum sanitas nostrorum sanitas Entrance of executives, guests, laureates and professors

Gaudeamus igitur Vivat academia

Iuvenes dum sumus Vivant professores 5 Gaudeamus igitur Vivat academia Iuvenes dum sumus Vivant professores Post iucundam iuventutem Vivat membrum quodlibet Post molestam senectutem Vivant membra quaelibet Nos habebit humus Vivant senatores Nos habebit humus Vivant senatores

Soloists Pupils of the Hofplein Youth Theatre, Lily Rose Betist & Merlijn van Hinthem 6

Steven D. Levitt

Steven D. Levitt, born on 29 May1967 in Boston, Massachusetts (USA), is the William B. Ogden Distinguished Service Professor in Economics at the University of Chicago. He holds a Ph.D in Eco - nomics from MIT and, before moving to Chicago in 1997, was a junior fellow at Harvard University. 8

Levitt is an applied economist who works on a broad set of topics including crime, corruption, sports, and education. He is one of the most creative economists of the last two decades. He has convincingly shown that economic theory can be usefully applied to a much broader set of issues than previously thought. Moreover, his work has uncovered causal effects that are of vital importance to policy makers and social scientists alike. His great academic achievements are evident from his impressive publications, of which many are heavily cited. While most of his publications have appeared in top-5 economics journals, he has also published in top journals in criminology and political science. Further, Levitt has substantially contributed to the profession by serving as a co-editor of the Journal of Political Economy for many years. Levitt is extremely economist under the age of forty. In the spring of 2006, helpful and stimulating to young scholars, both from he was named one of Time magazine’s “100 People Who his own department and abroad. Shape Our World.”

In his most recent research, Professor Levitt has examined issues such as how to prevent shootings among at-risk youth, how to identify terrorists using banking data, whether child safety seats and seat belts are effective in5protecting children from injury, and how financial incentives impact performance of teachers and students. Levitt is probably best known for his book Freakonomics, published in 2005 and co- 9 written with journalist Stephen Dubner. The book has made key insights in economics accessible to a broad Professor Robert Dur, honorary promoter audience. It was listed on the New York Times Best Department of Economics Sellers list for more than 2 years and has sold more Erasmus School of Economics than 4 million copies worldwide. In the mean time, a sequel has appeared, entitled SuperFreakonomics, as well as a movie and a popular blog, supported by a Twitter account with more than half a million followers.

Levitt has received already many honors. He is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, he received the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers from the National Science Foundation in 2000, and in 2003, he received the John Bates Clark Medal of the American Economic Association as the most out standing American Cass R. Sunstein

Professor Cass Robert Sunstein, born on 21 September 1954 in Concord, Massachusetts (USA), is currently the Robert Walmsley University Professor and Felix Frankfurter Professor of Law at Harvard Law School. He obtained an A.B. in 1975 from Harvard College and a J.D. in 1978 from Harvard Law 10 School, both magna cum laude.

After graduation, Sunstein worked as a clerk for Justice Benjamin Kaplan of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court and Justice Thurgood Marshall of the U.S. Supreme Resolutie te laag Court, before working as an attorney-advisor in the Office of the Legal Counsel of the U.S. Department of Justice. From 1981-2008, Sunstein was a University of Chicago Law School faculty member, when President Barack Obama was also a faculty member. Over the years, Sunstein demonstrated a multi-faceted expertise in a variety of fields, including constitutional law, administrative law, environmental law, and law and economics. One his major contributions lies in the latter discipline, where he helped shaping the emerging field of behavioral law and eco - nomics, which seeks to model law and policy around but also with politicians including U.S. President Barack research on how people actually behave when facing Obama. Cass Sunstein served as the Administrator of the various choices. In his analysis, Sunstein stressed the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs for Barack importance of insights from behavioural sciences, such as Obama at the White House from September 2009 till psychology, to broaden the traditional economic analysis August 2012. During this time, he oversaw a far-reaching of law. Sunstein has proven to be a prolific scholar, as restructuring of the American regulatory state which he he authored or co-authored more than 25 books and describes in his latest book Simpler: The Future of hundreds of scholarly articles. He has written extensively Government. on many aspects of public law, including the regulation of risk, the nature of rights, judicial decision-making, and numerous features of administrative, environmental, and constitutional doctrine. Between 2000 and 2007, Sunstein 11 was the most cited law professor in the field of consti - Professor Michael Faure, honorary promoter tutional and public law with 1680 citations. In 2007, Professor of Comparative Private Law and Economics Sunstein was awarded the prestigious Henry M. Phillips Professor Willem van Boom, honorary promoter Prize by the American Philosophical Society, a prize which Professor of Private Law is given every three years for lifetime achievement in Erasmus School of Law jurisprudence. He has frequently provided expert testimony to congressional committees, including the Senate Judiciary Committee during its consideration of Supreme Court nominees. In 2008, Cass Sunstein and Richard Thaler published their seminal book Nudge: Improving Decisions Van Boom: About Health, Wealth, and Happiness, which was a geen foto national and inter national bestseller. The book discusses aangeleverd? how organizations can help people make better choices in their daily lives by taking into account the heuristics and biases that steer people’s decision making. The ideas in the book proved to be not only popular with academics Craig J. Calhoun

Craig Jackson Calhoun, born on 16 June 1952 in Watseka, Illinois (USA), is one of today’s foremost social scientists.

He is a true interdisciplinarian, having studied history and cultural anthropology. Then he moved into sociology with a strong footing in social theory. His scientific contributions as well as his contributions to the public sphere have been great, and his work has been translated in more than a dozen languages. Amongst others, he has been professor 12 at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill and Columbia University. He has been university professor at New York University and he is the current director of the London School of Economics and Political Science. He holds an honorary doctorate from La Trobe University. Professor Calhoun has written and edited over 30 books and 150 journal articles and book chapters, including some in the most prestigious sociology journals such as the American Journal of Sociology, Theory and Society and Sociological Theory. Some of his recent books and collaborations are The Roots of Radicalism. Tradition, the Public Sphere and Early Nineteenth-Century Social Movements; Varieties of Secularism in a Secular Age; Sociology in America. A History; Nations Matter: Culture, History, and the Cosmo - politan Dream, and several volumes on the economic and financial crisis in the Possible Futures book series, which he started. Among his most widely acclaimed earlier books are Natio nalism and Critical Social Theory: Culture, History and the Problem of Specificity. Professor Calhoun has brings together scholars and practitioners from various worked in close relation to scholars such as Richard Sennett, fields to collaborate on issues of public relevance. He has Arjun Appadurai, Jürgen Habermas and Charles Taylor. He been advisor to many governments and universities across rose to fame in international sociology due to his ground- the world, ranging from the Constitutional Commission breaking work on social movements as well as on natio - of Eritrea to Harvard University. Professor Calhoun is the nalism. In 1989, he shared a visiting scholarship in Beijing, quintessential modern scholar, combining high-level inter- and it so happened that during his half year there, the national academic work with both charismatic teaching and Tiananmen Square protests took place. His account of the a strong focus on public relevance. For the Department of fate of the Beijing student movement led to the book Sociology at Erasmus University Rotterdam, his combination of Neither Gods nor Emperors: Students and the Struggle scientific excellence and public relevance is the embodiment for Democracy in China. The book is an example of the of an ideal. way much of professor Calhoun’s work is concerned with 13 the ways in which the history of social movements and social events can inform us about possible pathways into the future. What particularly distinguishes professor Professor Godfried Engbersen, honorary promoter, Calhoun’s work is his mix of critical social science and public Department of Sociology relevance. He has summarized his approach to academic Faculty of Social Sciences work as follows: “We must set high standards for ourselves, but in order to inform the public well, not to isolate our - selves from it.” The public concern in his work is mirrored in his choice of research topics, such as nationalism, cosmo - politanism, international migration, risk, HIV/Aids, 9/11, Katrina, the Haiti earthquake, media reform, religion and the 2008 economic crisis. For professor Calhoun, the public relevance of social science is also visible in a longstanding explicit research concern with the nature of the public sphere, and in a range of publications and lectures on the public mission of the research university. He is the founder of NYU’s Institute for Public Knowledge, which Brian J. Druker

Brian J. Druker, born on 30 April 1955 in St. Paul, Minnesota (USA), is director of the Oregon Health & Science University Knight Cancer Institute. He is associate dean for oncology of the Oregon Health & Science University School of Medicine and he chairs the leukemia research program at Oregon Health & Science 14 University.

As a clinical oncologist and basic researcher, Brian Druker has led the way to the foundation of a novel form of targeted therapy of cancer. In this type of treatment a drug targets the cancer cells on the basis of a specific molecular abnormality that drives the disease. Brian J Druker earned his medical degree at the University of California in 1981. He specialized in Internal Medicine at the Washington School of Medicine in St. Louis, Missouri, and next in Oncology at Harvard. After completing his clinical training in oncology at Harvard’s Dana-Farber Cancer Institute. Dr. Druker returned to the lab to begin his research career studying the regulation of the growth of cancer cells and the practical application to cancer therapies. In his early years Druker embarked on pivotal investi - has greatly improved due to these pioneering gations that would create a perspective for the contributions. Brian Druker is a cancer researcher development of the first tyrosine kinase inhibitor representative of a unique prototype scientist being ‘imatinib’, a therapeutic drug also known under the successful in translating fundamental lab research brand name Gleevec (or Glivec). He and his team all the way to the bedside. His scientific research developed an anti-phosphotyrosine antibody that was has induced a paradigm shift in cancer treatment an essential reagent to researchers at Novartis in their with a remarkable clinical impact. kinase inhibitor drug discovery program. With great determination and vision Druker initiated a variety of laboratory experiments to establish efficacy of this investigational compound. His investigations revealed that the compound tackled the causative molecular defect 15 in chronic myeloid leukemia. These pre-clinical studies in animal models and cell culture were instrumental to Professor Bob Löwenberg, honorary promoter the development of Gleevec (imatinib). Department of Haematology Erasmus MC After some years at Harvard, Druker chose to continue his career at Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU) where he spearheaded the highly successful clinical trials of imatinib in chronic leukemia that would eventually result in the establishment of this novel therapeutic agent. Imatinib is currently approved for leukemia, gastroin - testinal stromal tumors (GIST) and five other cancers.

The studies of Dr Druker and his colleagues mark a break - through in the treatment of cancer. Life expectancy of patients with chronic myeloid leukemia, acute leukemia and other forms of cancer with speciﬁc gene mutations Philip S. Kitcher

Philip Stuart Kitcher, born on 20 February 1947 in London (UK), is currently the John Dewey Professor of Philosophy in the Department of Philosophy, at Columbia University, New York). He studied mathematics and the history and philosophy of science at Christ’s College, Cambridge. He obtained his Ph.D at 16 Princeton.

Philip Kitcher is a British philosophy professor who specializes in the philosophy of science, the philosophy of biology, the philosophy of mathematics, the philosophy of literature, and, more recently, pragmatism. With his seminal work on “explanatory unification” and The Advancement of Science (1995) Kitcher has become one of the world’s leading philosophers of science. Kitcher has succeeded in reaching a larger, non-academic audience with his accessible, yet incisive books on Creationism, Sociobiology and Darwin. His recent work on Richard Wagner’s Ring des Nibelungen, James Joyce’s Finnegans Wake, and Thomas Mann’s Death in Venice extends way beyond the traditional confines of philosophy of science. There are at least four excellent reasons to grant Philip Kitcher an honorary doctorate. Arguably, each of these reasons by itself would already of subjects (which, I might add, resonates with us philo - provide sufficient reason to bestow him with this honor. sophers at the Erasmus University), is likely to have a lasting The first reason is that Kitcher has tackled The Big Issue impact on philosophy. Kitcher is a fellow of the American head-on that stood centre stage in the Golden Age of Academy of Arts and Sciences since 2002. He has served philosophy of science: can we say that scientific development as president of the American Philosophical Association, yields growth of knowledge? Does current science under - which awarded him the Inaugural Prometheus Prize in stand the world around us, as well as we ourselves in it, 2006 for his achievements in philosophy of science. better than the science of, say, half a century ago? Where other philosophers of science have backed off and set their minds on smaller things, Kitcher has refused to settle for something less than this. In doing so, and here I turn to the second reason, Kitcher raised the bar for analyses 17 in philosophy of science. His own work exemplifies high Professor Jack Vromen, honorary promoter standards, with respect to both philosophical sophistication Department of Theoretical Philosophy and subtlety, and accuracy and depth with which the Institute for Philosophy and Economics relevant scientific disciplines are understood and repre - Faculty of Philosophy sented; standards that subsequent work in philosophy of science has to meet. Third, Kitcher has been highly influential in setting the agenda for further research. In his own work on the proper place of science in a demo - cratic society, for example, he has shown the way (as to) how to broaden the set of issues contemporary philo - sophy of science has to come to terms with. Finally, and directly related to this, Kitcher has recently engaged in an inspiring attempt to revive pragmatism as a respectable philosophical tradition. His plea to tackle a changing set of subjects that is responsive to ongoing developments in science and society, rather than an immutable, eternal stock Arjun Appadurai

Professor Arjun Appadurai, born on 4 February in Mumbai (India), is currently the Paulette Goddard Professor of Media, Culture, and Communication at New York University. He educated in India before moving to the United States. He received his B.A. from Brandeis University and his Ph.D from the University of Chicago. 18

Appadurai is a contemporary social-cultural anthropologist. In his anthropological work, he discusses the importance of the modernity of nation states and globalization. The nature and significance of his contributions throughout his scholarly career have earned him the reputation as a leading figure in his field. His influence extends well beyond anthropology as his work has been espoused by historians, economists and media scholars worldwide. He has previously held various professorial chairs at top institutions in the United States and Europe and has received numerous prestigious fellowships, grants and academic honors recognizing his wide-ranging accomplish - ments. He has delivered keynote lectures at diverse inter - national conferences, spanning social anthropology, geography, contemporary culture, modern South Asia, and globalization. He is a member of several advisory an honorary doctorate for his groundbreaking work in and editorial boards in the United States, Latin America, the field of anthropology, and for his intellectual leader - Europe and India. For instance, Dr. Appadurai is a co- ship that has inspired the broader academic community founder of the academic journal Public Culture. and beyond. With this honorary doctorate, the Erasmus University Rotterdam celebrates Arjun Appadurai’s extra - His activities are not confined to the realm of academics: ordinary achievements and honours his lasting contribution Arjun Appadurai has served as a consultant to a wide array to academia and society at large. of public and private organizations such as UNESCO, the World Bank and the Rockefeller Foundation. In Mumbai, he founded the non-profit organization Partners for Urban Knowledge, Action and Research (PUKAR). Dr Appadurai is a prolific writer, having authored numerous books and 19 scholarly articles. His seminal work Modernity at Large: Cultural Dimensions of Globalization (1996) introduced Professor Dick Douwes, honorary promoter a new research framework which enabled the pursuit Professor of History of Non-western Societies of an anthropological perspective on issues of modernity, Erasmus School of History, Culture and Communication urbanization, globalization, consumption and public culture. Other important publications include Worship and Conflict under Colonial Rule (1981), The Social Life of Things (1988), Disjuncture and Difference in the Global Cultural Economy (1990), and Fear of Small Numbers (2006). His most recent book, The Future as Cultural Fact (2013) contains seminal essays on various aspects of globalization, the recurring theme that runs through most of Dr. Appadurai’s work. By exploring the global condition from New York to Mumbai, he sets the agenda for an anthropology of the future. The Erasmus School of History, Culture and Communication is honoured to nominate professor Arjun Appadurai for Don C. Hambrick

Donald C. Hambrick, born on 27 November 1946 in Pueblo Colorado (USA), is currently the Evan Pugh Professor and Smeal Chaired Professor of Management, at the Smeal College of Business of The Pennsylvania State University.

20 Professor Hambrick’s scholarly work is primarily on top management – CEOs and top management teams. In a narrow sense, he is the initiator of the upper echelons perspective, in which he has consistently drawn attention to the sociological, social-psychological, and psychological underpinnings of top managerial behaviour. In a broader sense, Don Hambrick has been the main engine behind the social theory of top management and corporate governance. Until the mid-1980s, top management team and corporate governance research was dominated by economic theories, especially agency theory and optimal contracting theories. While these theories still have merit, economic theories alone provide an overly narrow basis for understanding top managerial behaviour, and must be complemented by a broader social theory perspective. This broader perspective has largely been furnished by Don Hambrick (and his students and collaborators), whose upper echelons research programme has pointed to the Economist and Business Week. In light of all these crucial inﬂuence of factors like strategy formulation achievements, it is remarkable that Don has always processes, executive stafﬁng and incentives, executive remained an immensely kind, modest, emphatic, and leadership, social processes and dynamics within top supportive person. He is a gentleman scholar in the truest management teams, and the psychological biases that sense of the phrase, and his standing, attitude, and are particular to individuals in CEO positions. demeanor make him exceptionally deserving of a 2013 Erasmus University Centennial Year honorary doctorate. Independent studies show that Don Hambrick is routinely in the top three of most cited management scholars. To date, he has more than 33,000 citations and an H-index of 75. He also served as president of the Academy of Management, is one of the Fellows of the Academy of 21 Management, and has served on the Board of Directors of Professor Pursey Heugens, honorary promoter the Strategic Management Society. He is also the recipient Department of Strategic Management and of the 2008 Distinguished Scholar Award for career Entrepreneurship, Rotterdam School of Management, achievement of the Academy of Management, and holds Erasmus University Honorary Doctorates from the Sorbonne University in Paris (awarded in 2010) and Antwerp University (awarded in 2013).

Yet any discussion of Don Hambrick’s impact should not be limited to an exposé on scholarly impact alone. Don is also a very inﬂuential independent consultant and instructor in executive education programs. His clients have included Pfizer, IBM, General Electric, Schering- Plough, PriceWaterhouseCoopers, Philips, Merck, ARAMARK, Pepsico, the New York Times, McKinsey, Dow Jones, and Pearson. Furthermore, his work is routinely covered in inﬂuential international news media, including The Robert Chambers

Robert Chambers, born on 1 May 1932 in Cirencester, Gloucestershire (UK), is one of the most inﬂuential scholars and writers in international development studies of the past generation.

For the last 40 years he has been a researcher at the Institute of Development Studies, at the University of Sussex in England. He became a leading figure in the field 22 of development management already in the 1970s, publishing several books on the management of land settlement schemes and much work on rural develop ment management more broadly. This drew on ten or twelve years of experience as an administrator, lecturer and researcher in Africa, to which he later added five or six years of research in India. Dr. Chambers showed a special talent for expressing insights in simple terms that could reach wide audiences—for example in reminders about the great relevance of seasonality (wet season, dry season; cold season, hot season; and so on) for all aspects of rural living and rural research, and in warnings about the low relevance of super-sophisticated methods of planning and assessment which are used after the real political decisions about pro posed investments have in fact been made; so he suggested that in terms of methods often, in a well-known phrase, ‘simple is optimal’. What has made Robert Chambers famous, however, has been his work from the early 1980s onwards. Looking back on the processes and approaches to planned change. His parti - work of his mainstream development management cipatory research methods have ‘broken the fixed mindset period, he came to consider it much of it to be misleading that poor people cannot contribute knowledge and under - and misconceived, sometimes even disastrous. Dr. standing of their own situation’. In the judgment of many, Chambers has had a major contribution to a paradigm shift he can thus be called a leader in revolutionizing develop - in develop ment studies towards more ‘people centered’ ment thinking, to use the title of a recent festschrift for and bottom-up approaches. From being a mainstream him, published last year. Robert himself remarks that much development management scholar, he evolved into being of what is attributed to him is mis-attributed: very often a world leader of participatory development research and his contribution was to bring together and articulate participatory practice, and a central figure in the corres- insights from other people - but he has done this in ponding global knowledge networks and communities a particularly effective way. of practice, not only in universities but especially also 23 amongst practitioners in NGOs, government and civil society. He helped to identify, highlight and name many potential biases in the observation and understanding Professor Leo de Haan, honorary promoter of poor people’s lives; to diagnose the sources of these Professor of Development Studies biases, in methods of observation and analysis, and in the International Institute of Social Studies underlying power-relations and mindsets; and to build new methods, and a system of ideas to sustain them.

In sum, he has contributed in convincing many develop - ment researchers and practitioners to take a more people- centred view. And ﬂowing out of and partnering that view, he has helped to inspire and coordinate large net - works of researchers and researcher-practitioners in the formulating, testing and sharing of new sets of methods, methods that are open to ordinary people’s knowledge and involvement, and in then using such methods to explore many aspects of people’s livelihoods and of change Buffets 1 Meat Floorplans 2 Fish 3 Poultry 4 Vegetarian Ground ﬂoor ESCHER VAN KAMER CAPPELLEN GARDEROBE ZAAL

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The staging of this afternoon’s ceremony is a co-production of Erasmus University Rotterdam, Hofplein Rotterdam and the Rotterdam Philharmonic (brass section), in co-operation with De Doelen, JVR Audiovisual and many others.

Hofplein Rotterdam mounts theatre and cultural productions with and for young audiences ranging from shows for families, kids and young people to operas and classic plays and from extracurricular drama classes to full-time professional training in the dramatic 26 arts. Since its founding in 1985 Hofplein Rotterdam has grown into the largest theatre institute in Europe for young people. Every week more than 4,000 children and young people attend theatre, singing and dancing classes or take part in performances. Hofplein Rotterdam has four theatres and works together with educational establishments including Albeda College and Hogeschool Rotterdam. Pupils and students are trained to become professionals in the field of acting, film, design or stage techniques. Famous names took their first steps at the Hofplein theater.

Hofplein Rotterdam is also located at the Pieter de Hooghweg 222 in Rotterdam that was built in 1916 for the Netherlands School of Commerce; in 1970 the Netherlands School of Economics, as it was then called, left the building to move to the new Woudestein campus in Kralingen. Choreography & staging Carla van Driel

Showcaller Henk Dijkema

Voice-over Cormac Burmania

Video honorary promotors Patrick de Jong Dammes Kieft Rick Oversluizen TV Rijnmond Soloist Finale Jacqueline Janssen-Vondenhoff Production mezzo soprano Waldemar Galama Rick Oversluizen 27

Intermezzo dancers Carmen Dries, Bart Huiskens, Gino Taytelbaum, Roan Kasanmonadi, Sue-An Bel Flashback 100 years in retrospective

The ﬂashback which launches the programme was produced by Het Kader, Bureau voor Audiovisuele Communicatie, Rotterdam. The company was founded in 19.. by four Erasmus University history graduates. During their time at Erasmus University they produced the weekly university news programme that was broadcast on monitors throughout the campus. Het Kader has produced numerous productions for the university in the past decades most recently one for the Erasmus Trustfonds and the Heart Beat Festival which opened the new campus in September 2013.

Erasmus Studenten Koor ‘Rotterdamsch Schoon’

The Erasmus Student Choir Rotterdamsch Schoon was founded in 2001 and at this moment consists of twenty female Erasmus students of different nationalities. The choir is conducted by Robert Verheul.

The repertoire of the choir consists of mainly modern (pop)songs, ranging from very loud Rammstein to very soft Simon and Garfunkel. The choir is performing all the year round at various podia. Every year in the month of May or June there is a big concert.

See also www.studentenkoor.eur.nl Evening Programme

18.30 Dinner

20.00 Concert Rotterdam Philharmonic & Jaap van Zweden Hommage à Erasme de Rotterdam, Alexandre Tansman (Fanfare-Choral) Fifth Symphony, Ludwig von Beethoven Academische Festouverture, Johannes Brahms

21.00 Ensembles & Afterparty Rotterdam Philharmonic Brass Tango ensemble Trasnoche Berta Moreno Jazz Trio DJ Swoolish Buffets

Proeverij - van de slager Hollandse pot van draadjesvlees met hete bliksem Gemengde salade met broodcroutons en vinaigrette Tomatensalade met basiliumdressing

Proeverij - van de poelier

Gebakken en getrancheerde parelhoenﬁlet met een rode wijn-limoensaus Gegrilde groenten uit de oven Krielaardappels in de schil met tijm en rozemarijn

Proeverij - uit de zee 30 Diverse soorten gepocheerde vis met saffraansaus, geserveerd in een romige ‘Risonne’ pasta

Proeverij - noch vlees, noch vis

Zwarte risotto met truffel en kaassaus In de oven gegrilde groente en Charlotte aardappeltjes Tortellini gevuld met Ricotta met truffelsaus en Gran Padano schilfers

Buffetdinner is served by Maison van den Boer. From the butcher Beef stew with potato and apple hotchpotch Mixed salad with bread croutons and vinaigrette Tomato salad with basil vinaigrette

From the poulterer

Guinea fowl with a red wine-lemon sauce Grilled vegetables from the oven New potatoes with thyme and rosemary

From the sea 31 Poached ﬁsh with saffron sauce and Risoni pasta

Vegetarian dishes

Black risotto with truffle and cheese Grilled vegetables from the oven with new potatoes Tortellini filled with Ricotta and served with truffle sauce and Gran Padano cheese Concert

Rotterdam Philharmonic Concerts Home of the Rotterdam Philharmonic is De Doelen Concert Music Director Yannick Nézet-Séguin Hall, but the orchestra can frequently be heard in other Honorary Conductor Valery Gergiev locations – from the local venues to the most prestigious Principal Guest Conductor Jiří Bělohlávek halls at home and abroad. In 2010 the orchestra assumed a residency in the Paris Théâtre des Champs-Élysées, where The Rotterdam Philharmonic ranks among Europe’s it is one of the principal guest orchestras. With all of its foremost orchestras, being internationally known for concerts, educational performances and community the intense energy of its performances, its acclaimed projects the Rotterdam Philharmonic reaches an 32 recordings and its innovative audience approach. annual audience of 150,000 to 200,000. With performances from the local venues to the most prestigious halls worldwide the orchestra reaches an Recordings annual audience of 150,000 to 200,000. The 2012/2013 Since the groundbreaking Mahler recordings touring schedule comprises two tours of Eastern Asia, with Eduard Flipse in the 1950s, the Rotterdam plus concerts in such prestigious concert halls as the Philharmonic has made a large number of critically Vienna Musikverein and the Paris Théâtre des Champs- lauded recordings, including an internationally Elysées. awarded Ravel CD with Yannick Nézet-Séguin. CDs with the orchestra appear on labels as Music Directors EMI/Virgin Classics and BIS Records; early 2012 The Rotterdam Philharmonic was founded in 1918. From a contract with Deutsche Grammophon was signed 1930, under chief-conductor Eduard Flipse, it developed for at least three CD releases with Yannick Nézet- into one of the foremost orchestras of the Netherlands. Séguin. For the rereleasing of historical recordings In the 1970s, with Jean Fournet and Edo de Waart, the the orchestra formed its own label Rotterdam orchestra gained international recognition. In 1995, Philharmonic Vintage Recordings. Valery Gergiev’s appointment as Music Director heralded a new period of bloom. He was succeeded by Yannick Nézet-Séguin, with whom the orchestra has made numerous successful tours and recordings. As of the 2013- 2014 season, Jiří Bělohlávek will join the Rotterdam Philharmonic as its Principal Guest Conductor. 2011 van Zweden was named as the recipient of Musical America's Conductor of the Year Award 2012 in recognition of his critically acclaimed work as Music Director of the Dallas Symphony Orchestra and as a guest conductor with the most prestigious US orchestras.

Jaap van Zweden has appeared as guest conductor with many leading orchestras across the globe. Recent highlights have included highly acclaimed debuts with the Berlin and New York Philharmonic, the Tonhalle- Orchester Zurich, the National Symphony Orchestra Washington and the Boston Symphony, and his BBC Proms debut conducting the Netherlands Radio Philharmonic in Bruckner’s Eighth symphony.

Highlights of the 2013/14 season and beyond include subscription debuts with the London Symphony, San Jaap van Zweden Francisco Symphony, Orchestre de la Suisse Romande 33 and Deutsches Sinfonieorchester Berlin, performances Amsterdam-born Jaap van Zweden has risen rapidly in with the Chamber Orchestra of Europe, and return little more than a decade to become one of today’s most visits to the Orchestre de Paris and the Rotterdam sought-after conductors. He has been Music Director and London Philharmonic Orchestras. of the Dallas Symphony Orchestra since 2008, and in September 2012 he took up the position of Music Jaap van Zweden has made numerous acclaimed Director of the Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra. recordings. He has recently completed a cycle of Bruckner symphonies with the Netherlands Radio Beginning his conducting career in 1995, he held Philharmonic, to great critical acclaim. His highly the positions of Chief Conductor of the Netherlands acclaimed performances of Lohengrin, Die Meister- Symphony Orchestra (1996-2000), Chief Conductor of singer and Parsifal are also available on CD/DVD, the Residentie Orchestra of The Hague (2000-2005), Chief the latter of which earned Maestro van Zweden the Conductor of the Royal Flemish Philharmonic Orchestra prestigious Edison award for Best Opera Recording (2008-2011), Chief Conductor and Artistic Director of in 2012. the Netherlands Radio Philharmonic Orchestra and Radio Chamber Orchestras from 2005-2011 (he remains In 1997, Jaap van Zweden and his wife Aaltje Honorary Chief Conductor of the Netherlands Radio established the Papageno Foundation, the objective Philharmonic Orchestra and Conductor Emeritus of the being to support families with one or more children Netherlands Radio Chamber Orchestra). In November with autism. Fifth Symphony, Ludwig von Beethoven

Beethoven's Fifth ends in a triumphant celebration, a bacchanal in which all of the drama heard previously is shaken off. The overwhelming, triumphant, yet trivial ﬁnal bars have received a great deal of criticism. Even today you sometimes hear people say: how could Beethoven have composed something so banal?

This is because, after two centuries, the ethical compo - nent of music has been pushed into the background. The modern listener is primarily fixated on the aesthetics, not on whether the music teaches him/her something from an ethical standpoint. For Beethoven, however, that was the whole point. He wanted to set an example through his heroic works: it is the job of the human This game continues subtly in the third movement. 34 being to overcome problems, to not be kowtowed to The drama and pathos of the opening movement return suffering or sorrow and always to strive for the noble in this scherzo with the main motif. A surprising C major and the good. This is perhaps philosophically naive, but is heard in the middle movement (Trio), but is devoid of for Beethoven this was a serious matter. This ‘agenda’ lustre. Low basses set a hurried theme that is imitated of the Fifth, the journey from darkness to light, was of by other instruments, after which an intriguing passage great meaning to later composers. follows: a mysterious pizzicato that leads to the ultimate shift from C minor to C major, with an undefined ‘hum’ This journey is a shift from C minor to C major, with in a triple pianissimo - as soft as possible. numerous obstacles on the way. There are moments of doubt and despair, but ultimately triumph emerges in the After this, nothing is as it was. Ten jubilant minutes finale. In the first three parts, C major only occasionally follow - a true triumph. The brass section pulls out all breaks through the black clouds of C minor, such as its the stops and lives it up in an unbridled song of joy: brief appearance in the reprise of the opening move - jubilant melodies, buoyant martial rhythms and sparkling ment. The main motif (ta-ta-ta-taaa) nevertheless harmonies. A piccolo adds glistening stars to the sound remains anchored in a powerful C minor. In the variations pallet. Another reflection follows briefly, just before the of the second movement, Andante con moto, C major reprise, as the tragedy of the third movement is recalled. briefly breaks through in the form of a jubilant victory The sombre C minor returns, but only a snippet. There dance with horns and trumpets. After just a few bars, then follows the much-criticised, excessive bombast by though, this is followed by deception: the listener hears which Beethoven underscores the idea: despite it all, just a hint of C major, an affirmation fails to materialise. life is worth the trouble. Academische Festouverture, Johannes Brahms

In 1880, when Brahms had already earned a reputation as a great composer, he was told that the University of Breslau (present-day Wroclaw in Poland) wished to confer on him an honorary doctorate. The same accolade had already been offered by Cambridge University but he had refused to accept the honour because he disliked travelling by sea. Brahms loathed ofﬁcial ceremonies and on this occasion as well he hoped to sufﬁce with a simple thank you letter. The conductor who had put his name forward, Bernard Scholz, managed to convince him that a note was not enough. The university expected at the very least a splendid piece of music in return. “Compose a beautiful symphony, but well-orchestrated, old chap, not too composer - an allusion to the second meaning of ‘acade - heavy and uniform”. mic’ in the sense of ‘learned’ or ‘clever’. 35

Brahms took up the challenge and instead of a symphony The Overture was an opportunity for Brahms to demon - he composed an overture, “a highly clamorous potpourri strate to the learned gentlemen his command of the of student drinking songs in the style of [Franz von] formal aspects of composition and in this he succeeded Suppé”. But then, as if such an excess of jollity could extremely well. He even manages to lend a contrapuntal not go unpunished, he immediately composed a makeover to the be-all and end-all of student songs counterpart, the Tragic Overture. On 4 January 1881 ‘Gaudeamus Igitur’. A third, negative meaning of the he himself directed the première in Breslau at a special word ‘academic, namely ‘pedantic and formalistic’ has meeting of the University. Now he was ofﬁcially entitled luckily no relevance here. The music is alternatingly to call himself “Doctor Brahms”, and others often did so festive, warm and witty, while still reﬂecting Brahms' though he himself, being a modest and down-to-earth personality. Though the music is festive it somehow man, invariably refused to use the title. remains measured and restrained just like the composer.

The Academic Festival overture is academic in more than one sense. First of all there are the four student songs that are used successively as themes. Student life wasn’t an entirely closed book to the young Brahms who had at some point attended a summer school at the univer - sity. The songs are subtly woven into a whole by the Hommage à Erasme de Rotterdam, Alexandre Tansman (Fanfare-Choral)

Composée en 1968 et 1969 à l’intention de l’Orchestre philharmonqiue de Rotterdam, cette partition était destinée à commémorer le cinquième centenaire de la naissance d’Erasme. Elle a été créée en février 1970 à Rotterdam sous la direction de Jean Fournet.

L’oeuvre est écrite pour un orchestre symphonique classique : bois par deux, quatre cors, trois trompettes, trois trombones, tuba, percussion (avec piano, célesta et xylophone) et cordes.

Cinq mouvements se succèdent, analogues à ceux 36 d’une symphonie, et sans aucun esprit descriptif. Écrite pour cuivres, timbales et cymbales, une Fanfare-Choral sert d’introduction.

Solennelle, mais surtout émouvante, cette page n’est pas sans rappeler les Canzonides des XVIe et XVIIe siècles (même si le caractère facultatif de son exécution permet un rapprochement avec la Péri de Paul Dukas). L’oeuvre en elle-même débute par un Prologue, très lent, traité uniquement dans les nuances piano, comme une profonde méditation: longues lignes mélodiques que dessinent les diverses parties de l’orchestre sur des rythmes réguliers. Ensembles & Afterparty

Rotterdam Philharmonic Brass Tango ensemble Trasnoche

A small portion of the brass section of the RPhO will The Argentinean bandoneonist Santiago Cimadevilla and perform during this event. You will see the complete violinist Ebred Reijnen of the RPhO recently formed the trombone/tuba section, accompanied by two trumpeters Trasnoche quintet, together with three top international and percussion. The trombone/tuba group is also known musicians: famous American pianist Mark Wyman, Italian by the name Rotterdam Philharmonic Low Brass and tango bassist Virgilio Monti and Dutch jazz guitarist perform many independent concerts under this name. Elliot Muusses. Trasnoche is taking Dutch and inter- The group also often plays with the percussion section national stages by storm. Trasnoche is unique in its during educational projects by the RPhO. presentation of a repertoire consisting exclusively of its own compositions and original arrangements of tango Trumpet Ad van Zon, Simon Wierenga and Argentinean folklore pieces. This translates into a Trombone Pierre Volders, Dani Quiles Cascant, highly personal sound created by the unique talents of Remko de Jager, Ben van Dijk each of the soloists. The warmth and passion of guest 37 Tuba Hendrik-Jan Renes singer Beatriz Aguiar ﬂows together with the sounds of the ensemble, adding an extra dimension to the whole. Arrangements of the academic hymns and intermezzo Oblivion Steven Verhelst Bandoneon Santiago Cimadevilla Violin Ebred Reijnen Guitar Virgilio Monti Piano Mark Wyman Double bass Elliot Muusses Afterparty

DJ Swoolish

Music from romantic eras of yesteryear presented by DJ’s Daan & Melina: the warm sounds of old jazz, bossa nova, swing, big band, and old ﬁlm music played on vinyl! From a kitsch sofa in a ‘sultry’ atmosphere.

Berta Moreno Jazz Trio

Berta Moreno, Spanish saxophonist, came to the Netherlands in 2010 to study jazz-saxophone at Codarts, University of the Arts, Rotterdam. Since then, she started to play regularly with Latvian double bass player Maksim Perepelica, and they created a Jazz trio Project in which they invite different musicians to play with them, giving to the band a new and fresh sound and approach every time. One of the regular guest musicians for this trio is Rui Da Silva, great guitar player from Portugal, currently living in The Hague. Berta Moreno trio has performed in different venues around the Netherlands. The Trio is based in Rotterdam.

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