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In the shopping window: Music and Poetry
21.09.2010Poetry plays an important role in our Tenso | Bomen programme (‘trees’). “Dat groeit maar, dondert niet waar, dat groeit maar alle kanten op” - ‘it grows, doesn’t matter where, it grows all over the place’ - states Erik Menkveld in one of his poems, set to music by Micha Hamel
Man and nature - or man against nature - are the subject in this work, which itself is “a mixture between a poetry reading and a choral madrigal”, says Hamel. “We see the Poet (Erik Menkveld himself) on the stage, reading his poem; the poem is then extended and also symbolised by the choir around him.”
The Amsterdam bookshop “Athenaeum” (Spui) has devoted one of their windows to our programme.
Photo © Susanne Vermeulen (click on photo for a large version)
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