We have continued our Tenebrae-tour of the Netherlands with performances at Utrecht, Maastricht and Amsterdam. Each of the venues being very different again, the challenge remains to adapt to the circumstances in order to give late medieval chant the proper vocal setting. We have concluded the first series of five concerts at Muziekgebouw 't IJ... Continue Reading →
Stem zaterdag 24 maart af op de Nederlands-Limburgse zender L1: Hendrik Vanden Abeele is er live te gast in het programma Cultuurcafé vanuit Grand Café 't Gouvernement in het Limburgs Museum, Keulsepoort 5 in Venlo. Presentatie Frans Pollux en Tom Doesborg. Hendrik praat er over de Nederlandse concerttour van Psallentes, over het onderzoek dat hij... Continue Reading →
Psallentes is currently touring The Netherlands with the programme Tenebrae. On wednesday 21 March 2012 we started the tour in the splendid and intimate setting of castle Huis Bergh at 's Heerenberg, jus a few hundred yards from the border with Germany. Yesterday, thursday 22 March 2012, we continued the tour with a gig at... Continue Reading →
This week saw only one new episode (#013) of the Antiphonary Walk-through, mainly due to Hendrik's voice dropping to, well, zero dB. Meanwhile, you might want to check out http://www.antiphonaria.com, where all the walk-through-movies that have been made and will be made are assembled in a time-line. Or you can subscribe to the playlist on... Continue Reading →
In his acclaimed book Out of Our Minds (2001) creativity prophet Ken Robinson describes some essential characteristics of the creative process: We begin with an initial idea of some sort ... The idea takes shape in the process of working on it – through a series of successive approximations [emphasis mine]. … Creativity is often... Continue Reading →
Hmm, de titel van deze bijdrage is enigszins misleidend. Het is namelijk zo dat elke sequens op een of andere manier een trope is. Dus ‘over tropen’ zou hebben kunnen volstaan. Anderzijds, omdat van alle tropen de sequensen de beroemdste zijn en het meeste voorkwamen in de Middeleeuwse muziek, en ook omdat volgens bepaalde... Continue Reading →
Just a quick and tiny silly thing amidst all the seriousness. Google's Streetview has protected Shakespeare's privacy by blurring his face: London, British Library, at the junction Midland Road - Euston Road. Cheers!
Belgium has lived through a terrible tragedy this week, with 22 children (of which seven from The Netherlands and one from Germany) dying in a coach crash in a Swiss tunnel. Six adults died in the horrible crash as well, and 24 other children were wounded. Our hearts go out to the dead and the... Continue Reading →
Psallentes Oude Muziek 