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Calendar2010Sunday 14 February 2010, 11.00 h. – Chinese Temperaments Under the Chinese Opera Weekend on 13 & 14 of Februari in the Main Hall, the Huygens-Fokker Foundation will organize a concert with Chinese music on request of the Muziekgebouw. The pieces which will be played are programmed around the Bagatelle "Chinees" of Professor Adriaan Fokker. With Ere Lievonen, Fokker-orgel / Fang Weiling, erhu Sunday 21 February 2010, 11.00 h. – Guus Janssen touches the Fokker organ
Sunday 21 March 2010, 11.00 h. – New harvest/Old masters Sunday 30 May 2010, 11.00 h. – Hans Kox 80 years In cooperation with the music hall Muziekgebouw aan 't IJ the Huygens-Fokker Foundation organizes a special concert to honor the well-known Dutch composer Hans Kox who will turn 80 years old this year. This rare programme contains all his the microtonal works, composed between 1958 and 1974. Sunday 10 October 2010, 11.00 h. – Organic Movements During this concert organ player Ere Lievonen, since the summer of 2009 one of our two regular players on the Fokker organ, will perform a number of new 31-tone compositions. The Flemish composer Bert Van Herck and Dutch composer Christina Oorebeek are one of the composers who were asked to compose new work for the unique Fokker organ. Sunday 28 November 2010, 11.00 h. – Microtonalities In this concert, the Fokker organ will make up part of the Huygens-Fokker Ensemble, a group of seven musicians. Existing compositions and amazing arrangements will be performed alongside new works, in which composed music is often combined with improvisation. Sunday 19 December 2010, 11.00 h. – The untempered cinema This concert brings film and live muziek together in a cinema of untempered tones. Het Fokker organ functions as a organ accompaniment for a few silent movies. Exciting, dramatic and scary scenes during this morning will be reinforced by 12 or more untempered tones of the 31-tone Fokker organ.
2011
Because success in 2009, now the sequel to Pimp My Organ! During this concert the computerized Fokker organ will again be driven by laptops. Several composers will compose new works especially for the instrument. The Fokker organ will once again be expanded and pimped with many new sounds! >>> Sunday 20 March 2011, 11.00 h. – Boem Boe Bali! Gamelan is characteristic of the Indonesian folk music. 31-tone music is a typical Dutch invention that has been developed here in The Netherlands. The 31-tone tuning of the Fokker organ has possibilities to play gamelan harmonies. A melting pot of exotic sounds during this concert will be the result. >>> Sunday 17 April 2010, 11.00 h. – 31-tone music above the IJ Organ player Ere Lievonen will perform exciting and delusional 31-tone music high above the IJ. Besides the fact that brand new work will sound on the Fokker organ (including a composition by Wim de Ruiter), pieces by great masters of early music will be performed. >>> Sunday 15 May 2010, 11.00 h. – The Ariadne-project A special crossover concert with music by Claudio Monteverdi and his contemporaries, as well as a work of the young Berlin composer and lutenist Andreas Arend, based on Monteverdi's Lamento d'Arianna solo aria, the only remaining part of his opera L'Arianna which is unfortunately lost. >>>
2009Sunday 18 January 2009, 19.30 h. - In memoriam Horatiu Radulescu (1942-2008) Sunday 17 May 2009, 11.00 h. - Inauguration concert Fokker organ Sunday 11 October 2009, 11.00 h. – 31-tone music at 't IJ Sunday 22 November 2009, 11.00 h. – The fifth tone of Christiaan Huygens Sunday 13 December 2009, 11.00 h. – Pimp My Organ!
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