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Grieg – humanist in hart en nieren

04.01.2008

Grieg - humanist in heart and soul. As conductor of the Oslo Chamber Choir and the Norwegian Soloists’ Choir, Grete Pedersen has made a widespread impact. So it was high time she made her debut with the NKK, and with a programme based around Edvard Grieg.

Central to this programme is Grieg’s humanism and perception of Nature as expressed in his four renowned late Psalms, opus 74, from 1906. Around these works Pedersen has placed several more recent compositions in a similar vein, among which are two ‘night pieces’, one by the Franco-Greek composer Yannis Xenakis and the other by the Franco- Finnish Kaija Saariaho.

Extracts from Grieg’s diaries:
“The problem that has been raised by the Dreyfus affair is an eternally human one: who has the greater right – the power of the physical or of the intellectual? A person is not given any sentence upon conviction without the court’s having been aware of all the reasons behind that sentence. ‘Raison d’état’ may never be more important than an individual’s innocence.”
“The desire to be absorbed into Nature. Everything is the same desire, the same longing, that lies at the heart of all music – at least, for those who know how to listen.”
“The ability to withdraw into yourself and to forget everything around you when you’re engaged in the creative process – that alone, I believe, is what is necessary to create something beautiful. It is all a total mystery.”

Programme
Edvard Grieg (1843-1907)
Fire Psalmer (1906)
Yannis Xenakis (1922-2001)
Nuits (1968)
Olivier Messiaen (1908-1992)
O sacrum convivium! (1937)
Edvin Østergaard (*1959)
The uncarved Block (2005)
Kaija Saariaho (*1952)
Nuits, adieux (1996)

Concerts

Friday 11 January 20.00 uur
Gouda, St. Janskerk
€ 15 / € 12,50 cjp/65+
tickets 020-5787978

Saturday 12 January 20.15 uur
Zwolle, Broerenkerk
(Odeon De Spiegel) € 18 / € 15 cjp
tickets +31(0)38-428 82 88

Sunday 13 January 20.15 uur
Alkmaar, Theater de Vest, Grote Zaal
€ 19 / € 17 cjp/65+
tickets +31(0)72-548 99 99

Wednesday 16 January 20.15 uur
Arnhem, Musis Sacrum, Concertzaal
€ 20 / € 10 cjp
tickets +31(0)26-443 73 43

Thursday 17 January 20.30 uur
Amsterdam, Muziekgebouw aan ’t IJ
€ 20 / € 18 MIJ-kaart / € 16 cjp/65+/Stadspas
tickets +31(0)20-788 20 00

Friday 18 January 20.15 uur
Utrecht, Pieterskerk
€ 15 / € 12,50 cjp/65+/U-Pas/studenten
tickets +31(0)20-5787978

Saturday 19 January 20.15 uur
Den Haag, Nieuwe Kerk
€ 25 / € 22,50 cjp/65+/UITpas
tickets +31(0)70-880 03 33

Sunday 20 January 14.30 uur
Haarlem, De Philharmonie, Grote Zaal
€ 22 1e rang / € 19 2e rang / € 16 3e rang
cjp/65+: € 19 e rang / € 16 2e rang / € 13 3e rang
tickets +31(0)900-51 11 222

More information: NKK, Onno Alink tel: +31(0)20-5787978 – onno . alink @ nederlandskamerkoor . nl

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