Joey Roukens: New work for orchestra
What do you do when fate knocks at the door and devastates your world? Do you resist it, in the spirit of Beethoven’s indomitable Fifth? Do you attain an enlightened state of detachment, as in Jonathan Dove’s otherworldly beautiful Hojoki, with countertenor Hugh Cutting as the ideal soloist? Or, like Joey Roukens, do you find a new answer? Food for thought, 87 years after the bombing of Rotterdam.
Program:
Roukens – New work (commission, world premiere)
Dove – Hojoki (Dutch premiere, soloist Hugh Cutting countertenor)
Beethoven – Fifth Symphony
- Composer(s) Joey Roukens
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Title(s) of the Work(s)
New work for orchestra
- Performer, Ensemble or Orchestra Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra, Andrew Manze conductor
