DCV 297 – Willem Boogman: Axis/Ashes

Willem studied Philosophy at the University of Utrecht (1974-1975).

Ensemble Klang’s The Big Loud Thing In honor of the 50th anniversary of the iconic Orkest De Volharding, the street orchestra of Louis Andriessen and Willem Breuker, Ensemble Klang presents a series of free pop-up concerts in which the music of De Volharding is central.

An evening in two parts: 18th and 21st century – Haydn and Boogman – the first concertant and the second full-on musical theater – a traditional, abandoned, grieving Ariadne on Naxos and a courageous, belligerent whistle-blower Ariadne who makes her own plan.

DCV 527 Willem Boogman Moving, an Opera in Progress Asko Ensemble and Stefan Asbury

Education Michael has a degree in English Literature from the State University of New York. Despite having no formal music education, he has an active international career in several aspects of the music business.

Celia Swart (1994, NL) is a new music composer, saxophone player and visual artist. Growing up playing saxophone and piano, she found her love for composing.

"Creativity is an unconscious act of insanity, in a burst of which the truth is born. No matter how beautiful or disgusting it may seem to people far from madness, its value is beyond doubt, both for the author and for those able to sense its invisible beauty. After all, gratitude for endless trials and suffering brings joy and blissful emptiness… Being shocked by music is about pain turning into beauty and getting under your skin, taking away your breath; about everything stopping to move. I want to be scratched inside by sound and experience the fleeting, invisible beauty." - Maxim Shalygin