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TIEN AN MEN – MANY PEOPLE WANTED TO BE THEM-SELVES
Vocal: Zhimin Tang – Music: Tom America
In 2005 Tom America was introduced to Zhimin Tang a young Chinese woman who was present as a student at the Tien an Men square protests in april/june 1989. He then recorded her report of that historic moment. It forms the heart of his composition, their contribution to keep the memory of this event alive. At Tien an Men square the hopes of a new generation were lost, an era was deleted from history by the rulers. The composition ends with a few lines from the song (a lovesong actually) ‘Nothing to my name’ written by the popular singer/composer Cui Jian. It became the anthem of the generation present at the square in 1989.
Woensdag 4 juni 2014:
25 jaar geleden werd op het Tien-an-Men plein
een nieuwe generatie van haar dromen beroofd.
YOUTUBE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zELb-QEKtmk
TIEN AN MEN – MANY PEOPLE WANTED TO BE THEM-SELVES
Het verhaal van de jonge student Zhimin Tang die er in 1989 bij was.
Stem: Zhimin Tang
Muziek: Tom America
4 juni 1989 – 4 juni 2014
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Caroll Vanwelden Sings Shakespeare Sonnets
Caroll Vanwelden is a Belgian Jazz singer/songwriter/pianist who just released her new album “Caroll Vanwelden Sings Shakespeare Sonnets” in which she combines Shakespeare´s sonnets with her own compositions to a ground breaking, fresh and emotional jazzy sound. The amazing intensity of her compositions elevates Shakespeare´s words to a new dimension. Caroll Vanwelden´s voice transmits accuracy and comfort with an astonishing gift to always create the appropriate ambiance.
The artist presents each of the selected sonnets in an exceptional setting: at times forceful, intense, driven, at times, relaxed, mellow, smooth, then again vibrant and vigorous or cheerful and even a little bit shy.
Caroll Vanwelden, a graduate of the famous London Guildhall School of Music and Drama – with illustrious graduates such as Orlando Bloom, Daniel Graig and Dave Holland – is accompanied by a great band with the skill to play music that combines unparalleled transparency with plasticity. With this album she propels the great Shakespeare unexpectedly into the world of big jazz librettists and interprets his lyrics into contemporary music in wonderful arrangements.
NDR: Jazz-album of the week 43//Financial Times Deutschland: 5 stars//Stereo Magazine: CD of the Month & AudioHighlight of the Month//Fono Forum: Musik & Klang 5 stars//MDR: take 5 CD Suggestions//Stereoplay:Klangtipp//JazzinBelgium: Album of the week
“On this album you’ll find amazing art at the same level as Norma Winstone, Diana Krall or Randy Crawford.” CONCERTO (Austria) by Gerhard Strejcek 8.10.2012
“This album has all the potential to be elected album of the year.” FONO FORUM (Deutschland) by Thomas Hintze 12/2012
“….resumed as an amazing European Jazz Album.” CRESCENDO (Deutschland) by Anna Hermann 12.10.2012
Caroll Vanwelden: vocals, piano, arrangements
Thomas Siffling: trumpet, flugelhorn
Mini Schulz: double bass
Markus Faller: drums, perc.
Coming up soon (2014): new album with Compositions on Shakespeare Sonnets II.
Musicians: Caroll Vanwelden played with or still plays with Thomas Siffling, Mini Schulz, Markus Faller, Obi Meinhard Jenne, Rodrigo Villalon, Phill Pesket (Molokko), Victoria Freestone, Jez Franks, Rob Mullarky (Seven), Johan Sabbe, Dirk Van der Linden , Henk de Laat (Enrique Tarde), Jean Van Lindt (The Swing Dealers), Vincent Mardens (The Swing Dealers), Tars Lootens, Piet Meerschaut, Chris Mentens, Swa Mercelis, Johan Joris, Lieven Cambré, Stijn Deldaele, Mike Roelofs, Ron van Stratum, Frank Peeters, Sam Vloemans, Luiz Marquez, Dominique Vantomme, Geert Roelofs, Peter Hermesdorf, Marc Huynen, Rogier Van Wegberg, Arie Storm, Jan Mües, Mario Vermandel, Luc Van den Bossche, Stijn Wauters, Janos Bruneel, Hans Van Oost, Andrew Cleyndert, Jan De Haas, Tom Mahieu,… and many more……
2014 Caroll Vanwelden concerts
31/01 BIX Jazzclub Stuttgart with Thomas Siffling, Mini Schulz and Rodrigo Villalon
09/02 Backnang Backnanger Bürgerhaus with Thomas Siffling, Mini Schulz and Rodrigo Villalon
03/04 Sankt Ingbert Jazz Festival 20h Stadthalle St. Ingbert with Thomas Siffling, Mini Schulz and Rodrigo Villalon
11/04 Hemingway Lounge Karlsruhe with Thomas Siffling, Mini Schulz and Florian Alexandru Zorn
26/04 Bremen Shakspeare Company with Thomas Siffling, Mini Schulz and Florian Alexandru Zorn
15/07 &16/07 Shakespeare Festival im Globe Neuss with Thomas Siffling, Mini Schulz and Rodrigo Villalon
06/07 Mittelrhein Musik Festival together with Andrea Sawatzki in Burg Stahleck with “Don’t Explain” project
24/06 Luxemburg CC
09/08 Rheingau Festival 19 Uhr with our Shakespeare Project with Thomas Siffling, Mini Schulz and Rodrigo Villalon
18/09 Gelsenkirchen in Lüttinghof Die Burg im Wasser with our Shakespeare Project with Thomas Siffling, Mini Schulz and Rodrigo Villalon
For more info & reviews Website: www.carollvanwelden.be
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Incubate, rijp en groen, hard en zacht
De namen variëerden van Filiosofische Stilte tot Frietboer, en van A Winged Victory for the Sullen tot Dead Rat Orchestra. De muziekgenres variëerden van apocalyptic folk tot indian classical music en van ambient tot noise. En dan hebben we het alleen nog over de tientallen groepen en individuele musici uit binnen- en buitenland die tijdens het afgelopen Incubate-festival in Tilburg te horen waren.
Natuurlijk, muziek is het hart van deze jaarlijkse ‘celebration of independent culture’. Maar kunst, film, theater en debat maken er ook deel van uit. En dat gelukkig in toenemende mate. Zo was er deze keer een grote tentoonstelling in de prachtige Koepelhal van de voormalige NS-Werkplaats ingericht onder de noemer ‘Open Source’. Heel democratisch, iedereen mocht werk insturen. Rijp en groen, prof en amateur door elkaar? Jazeker. Maar dat gold ook voor de muziek. En rijp hoefde geen garantie te zijn voor kwaliteit. Mooi trouwens dat overal in Tilburg, vooral in de binnenstad, grote fotoportretten hingen van moeders, na een oproep in de locale media ingestuurd door talloze vaders en kinderen. Want, hoe internationaal men ook wil zijn, ook op die manier probeerden de organisatoren – alle lof voor hen – zoveel mogelijk mensen uit Tilburg en omgeving bij het festival te betrekken.
En welke muziek vond ik nu het mooist? Laat ik zeggen dat ik genieten kan van de enorme contrasten tussen hard (soms té hard) en zacht, als je van de ene kroeg naar de andere concertzaal loopt. De serene, melancholische zang van het Servisch duo Mesta (begeleid door een toetsenist) in de Pauluskerk behoorde voor mij tot de hoogtepunten. Net zoals de muzikale hommage die de jazzmusici Trevor Watts en Veryan Weston in Paradox brachten aan hun vakbroeder, de onlangs overleden saxofonist Sean Bergin. De heren van Buzzcocks, muzikale slotact van het festival, konden me daarentegen maar matig boeien. Rijp? Overrijp!
Joep Eijkens photos & text: Incubate 2012
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Russian court finds Pussy Riot guilty
A Russian court’s decision today to find members of the punk rock protest band Pussy Riot guilty of “hooliganism” is a bitter blow for freedom of expression in the country, Amnesty International said today.
Amnesty International said it believed that the trial of the Pussy Riot defendants – Maria Alekhina, Ekaterina Samutsevich and Nadezhda Tolokonnikova – was politically motivated, and that they were wrongfully prosecuted for what was a legitimate – if potentially offensive – protest action.
The organization considers all three activists to be prisoners of conscience, detained solely for the peaceful expression of their beliefs.
“The Russian authorities should release the members of Pussy Riot immediately and unconditionally,” said John Dalhuisen, Director of Amnesty International’s Europe and Central Asia Programme.
“A number of measures restricting the freedom of expression and association have been introduced in response to the wave of protest that accompanied the recent parliamentary and presidential elections. This trial is another example of the Kremlin’s attempts to discourage and delegitimize dissent. It is likely to backfire.”
Pussy Riot performed the protest song “Virgin Mary, redeem us from Putin” in Christ the Saviour Cathedral in Moscow on 21 February, with the group members covering their faces in balaclavas.
The song called on the Virgin Mary to become a feminist and banish Vladimir Putin. It also criticized the dedication and support shown to Putin by some Russian Orthodox Church representatives. It was one of a number of performances intended as a protest against Vladimir Putin in the run-up to Russia’s presidential elections in March.
The Russian authorities subsequently arrested Maria Alekhina and Nadezhda Tolokonnikova on 4 March, and Ekaterina Samutsevich on 15 March, claiming they were the masked singers.
The Pussy Riot trial started on 30 July in Moscow’s Khamovnicheskii District Court and was over in eight days. The judge dismissed most of the defence team’s requests to call up witnesses. There were concerns that fair trial standards might have been violated.
Russian court jails Pussy Riot for two years
A Russian court’s decision today to find guilty members of the punk rock protest band Pussy Riot is a bitter blow for freedom of expression in the country, Amnesty International said today.
Three members of the all-female group were charged with “hooliganism on grounds of religious hatred” after they sang a protest song in Moscow’s main Orthodox cathedral in February.
The judge sentenced them to two years imprisonment in a penal colony. The lawyers for the three said they were planning to appeal the decision.
Amnesty International said it believed that the trial of the Pussy Riot defendants – Maria Alekhina, Ekaterina Samutsevich and Nadezhda Tolokonnikova – was politically motivated, and that they were wrongfully prosecuted for what was a legitimate – if potentially offensive – protest action.
The organization considers all three activists to be prisoners of conscience, detained solely for the peaceful expression of their beliefs.
“The Russian authorities should overturn the court ruling and release the members of Pussy Riot immediately and unconditionally,” said John Dalhuisen, Director of Amnesty International’s Europe and Central Asia Programme.
“What Maria Alekhina, Nadezhda Tolokonnikova and Ekaterina Samutsevich did was calculated to shock – and did shock many. But in sentencing them to two years’ imprisonment, Russia has set the limits of freedom of expression in the wrong place.”
“A number of measures restricting the freedom of expression and association have been introduced in response to the wave of protest that accompanied the recent parliamentary and presidential elections. This trial is another example of the Kremlin’s attempts to discourage and delegitimize dissent. It is likely to backfire.”
Background
Pussy Riot performed the protest song “Virgin Mary, redeem us from Putin” in Christ the Saviour Cathedral in Moscow on 21 February, with the group members covering their faces in balaclavas.
The song called on the Virgin Mary to become a feminist and banish Vladimir Putin. It also criticised the dedication and support shown to Putin by some Russian Orthodox Church representatives. It was one of a number of performances intended as a protest against Vladimir Putin in the run-up to Russia’s presidential elections in March.
The Russian authorities subsequently arrested Maria Alekhina and Nadezhda Tolokonnikova on 4 March, and Ekaterina Samutsevich on 15 March, claiming they were the masked singers.
The Pussy Riot trial started on 30 July in Moscow’s Khamovnicheskii District Court and was over in eight days. The judge dismissed most of the defence team’s requests to call up witnesses. There were concerns that fair trial standards might have been violated.
The case generated a wide debate on blogs, social networks and in the media about freedom of expression, the place of the Church in a modern secular state and the independence of courts.
In June, more than 200 Russian cultural figures, well-known writers, musicians and actors, among others, signed an open letter in support of Maria Alekhina, Nadezhda Tolokonnikova and Ekaterina Samutsevich. It was then posted on the Echo Moskvy radio web site and collected around 45,000 further signatures.
Also in June, a group of Orthodox believers sent an open letter to Patriarch Kirill, the leader of the Russian Orthodox Church, asking for mercy for the three arrested women.
In August, a group of lawyers published an open letter in which they stated that the actions of the three women could not be qualified as a crime and that bringing charges against them was in violation of the Russian law.
The Pussy Riot case received a broad coverage abroad and generated the support of many international artists, including Sting, Madonna, Yoko Ono and Bjork.
Source: Website Amnesty International
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W i n t e r n a c h t e n
D e n H a a g 2 0 1 0
14-01-2010 – 17-01-2010
Het spel van de regels
De vijftiende editie van Winternachten gaat over regels. Kijken en luisteren naar de schrijver als regelbreker, taboe bestormer, dwarse denker en bedenker van nieuwe regels. Genieten van een lang weekend Winternachten in Den Haag, waarin u kunt kiezen uit meer dan dan veertig programma’s op vijf podia in Theater aan het Spui en Filmhuis Den Haag.
Meer dan tachtig schrijvers, muzikanten en kunstenaars uit vijftien landen verkennen de grenzen van bestaande en nieuw te formuleren regels. Ze lezen voor uit eigen en andermans werk, spelen de hoofdrol in gesprekken en publieksdiscussies, improviseren er muzikaal op los, en schitteren in de films en documentaires.
Het vierdaagse festival opent op donderdagavond 14 januari met de Winternachtenlezing door Antjie Krog.
Op zaterdagmiddag 16 januari kunt u kiezen uit twee programma’s.
Gaat u voor de spoedcursus cultuur en geschiedenis van de nieuwe Nederlandse eilanden in How to Bluff your Way into Saba, Statia and Bonaire?
Of praat u liever mee in de Leesclub Live van NRC Handelsblad waarin de nieuwe vertaling van Kafka onder de loep wordt genomen?
Winternachten 1, een programma op vijf podia op vrijdagavond 15 januari, opent met een speech van Gerard Spong. Onder de licht ontregelende leiding van Raoul Heertje volgt een zoektocht naar de Gouden Regel met o.a. Tarun Tejpal, Tommy Wieringa en Junot Diaz. Verder optredens van trombonist Wolter Wierbos, dichtende Haagse scholieren, een handleiding voor het maken van schadelijke literatuur in Rules for Radicals en de film The Yes Men Fix the World.
Tijdens Winternachten 2 op zaterdagavond 16 januari kunt u weer kiezen uit meer dan vijftien programma’s met zeer diverse gasten en onderwerpen. Met de Amerikaanse bestsellerschrijver Jonathan Safran Foer, Dichter des Vaderlands Ramsey Nasr, een cursus nieuwe etiquette en een eerbetoon aan de vorig jaar overleden Michaël Zeeman.
Het festival sluit af op zondagmorgen met een live uitzending van VPRO’s OVT in café brasserie Dudok.
Lees alle details over de programma’s op►de website van Winternachten
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F A K E
manipulatie en waarheid
in literatuur, media en politiek
Winternachten Den Haag
15 t/m 18 januari 2009
De veertiende editie van Winternachten draait om ‘Fake!’, met meer dan veertig programma’s rond het thema manipulatie en waarheid in literatuur, media en politiek. Schrijvers, dichters en denkers gaan op zoek naar de laatste resten van waarheid en waarachtigheid, of de leugen?
Het festival opent in de Nieuwe Kerk met de Winternachtenlezing door de Somalische schrijver Nuruddin Farah. Daarmee start een vierdaags festival op vijf podia in en rond Theater aan het Spui in Den Haag.
Meer dan tachtig schrijvers, kunstenaars en musici uit de hele wereld treden op, zoals Amitav Ghosh, Alain de Botton, Connie Palmen, Namgyal Lhamo, Gerrit Komrij, Izaline Calister, Herman Koch, Naima el Bezaz, Kristien Hemmerechts, Nury Vittachi, Shrinivási, Nelleke Noordervliet, Perihan Magden en Margriet de Moor.
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