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Sunday, March 21st 2010, 11.00 | BAM Hall | New harvest/Old masters
 In this concert, organist Joop van Goozen, who has specialised in playing the Fokker organ since the nineties, is presenting a wonderful collection of old and new 31-tone music. Special guest Jos Zwaanenburg will provide Joop van Goozen with musical accompaniment during this concert.
Especially for this concert he composed a new work for flute, Fokker organ and live electronics. Besides old masters like Froberger and Rossi, the programme includes familiar works from the regular repertoire, by Peter Schat and Henk Badings, among others.
Tickets can be ordered by the Muziekgebouw.
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Sunday, February 21st 2010, 11.00 | BAM Hall | Guus Janssen touches the Fokker organ
Guus Janssen will be touching and playing the Fokker organ (on both 12-tone and 31-tone keyboards). Special guest is clarinet and saxophone player David Kweksilber, who will provide him with musical accompaniment during several improvisations. Janssen will also compose some short pieces and jazz themes especially for the Fokker organ to investigate the possibilities of improvising with microtonality. If you're curious to know where this leads to and you're up to hear a new sound, come and visit this exciting and unpredictable concert!
You can order tickets by the Muziekgebouw.
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Concert | February 14th 2010, 11.00 | BAM Hall | Chinese Temperaments
 Under the Chinese Opera Weekend the organ-player Ere Lievonen and erhu-player Fang Weiling will search for corresponding temperaments and tunings by improvising on a Chinese theme and playing a Chinese composition during this concert. The erhu, in Western countries better known a the "Chinese violin", is a two-snared string instrument that is regularly used as a solo instrument or as part of ensembles or orchestras. On the programme is furthermore the Bagatelle "Chinees" of Adriaan Fokker, Suite van kleine stukken of Henk Badings en a whole new piece of Joke Kegel: Imaginary City. Free admission.
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Renovation Fokker-organ
The Fokker organ needed a restoration badly. It had to be reassembled, renovated and rebuilt into a modern organ. Requests haven been sent to various funds. The Huygens-Fokker Foundation needed these financial aids, because otherwise this unique 31-tone organ would be in danger of being lost. The plan was to place the Fokker organ definitively above the glass wall of  the BAM Zaal in the Muziekgebouw aan ’t IJ in Amsterdam. A better location could not have been wished for. In this room one will be able to enjoy, through concerts and educational projects, music specially composed for the instrument and the unique musical heritage that Christiaan Huygens (proponent of the 31-tone system) has initiated in the Netherlands. Read more
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