DEN HAAG - Konrad Boehmer memorial concert, 4 October 2024

 

View this email in your browser Dear members of Sonology's Concert Mailing List, You are invited to the Konrad Boehmer memorial concert on 4th October, 2024 at 20h in the Conservatoriumzaal, Amare. At 19h in the Conservatoriumzaal there will be a pre-concert lecture given by Italian musicologist Veniero Rizzardi on the ongoing dialogue between Luigi Nono and Konrad Boehmer.  The composer and musicologist Konrad Boehmer was born in Berlin in 1941. His early works were conducted by Bruno Maderna and Pierre Boulez. His dissertation on the open form in new music, which he defended in 1966 at the age of 25, made a great impression. In the same year he followed the route of his teacher Gottfried Michael Koenig to the Netherlands. Boehmer was initially embraced by the Dutch avant-garde and began teaching at the Royal Conservatoire in 1972. From 1994 to 2006 he was head of the Institute of Sonology. Konrad Boehmer died on 4 October 2014 in Amsterdam. As a music critic, Boehmer – often rightly, sometimes wrongly – attacked many of his colleagues at home and abroad, for example via his legendary radio programme Muziekspiegel. Perhaps because of the polemical battle in which he was regularly involved, the composer Boehmer has faded into the background in the Netherlands. On the occasion of the tenth anniversary of his death, the Konrad Boehmer Foundation has therefore asked the New European Ensemble to compile a programme of instrumental compositions by Boehmer and composers he admired, Willem Breuker, Luigi Nono and Edgard Varèse. The selected works by Boehmer have never been performed in the Netherlands before. Also special is the Dutch premiere of the original version of Nono’s Polifonica–Monodia–Ritmica. 4 October 2024 19:00, Pre-concert Lecture, Conservatoriumzaal 20:00, Concert, Conservatoriumzaal Konrad Boehmer - Fünf Bagatellen Edgard Varèse - Octandre Konrad Boehmer - Qadar Luigi Nono - Polifonica–Monodia–Ritmica intermission Konrad Boehmer - Da Ciri Willem Breuker - Fidget Konrad Boehmer - Rabioso Admission free   photo by Pieter Boersma Copyright © 2024 Institute of Sonology, All rights reserved.  You are receiving this email because you opted in via our website.  Our mailing address is:  Institute of Sonology Spuiplein 150 Den Haag, Zuid-Holland 2511 DG Netherlands Add us to your address book ...