Protest against cuts killing off Dutch Musical heritage

[Roehre]

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What the Dutch government is actually saying is similar to cutting off the edges from Rembrandt's Nightwatch or Van Gogh's Sunflowers, sdaying that one doesn't need such a big painting, and throwing away the cut off parts

[Megan]

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What the Dutch government is actually saying is similar to cutting off the edges from Rembrandt's Nightwatch or Van Gogh's Sunflowers, sdaying that one doesn't need such a big painting, and throwing away the cut off parts

Hope it doesn't affect the Amsterdam Concertgebouw and Bernard Haitink, which is a really world class outfit.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2fg7w49UnGA

[Roehre]

Hope it doesn't affect the Amsterdam Concertgebouw and Bernard Haitink, which is a really world class outfit.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2fg7w49UnGA

It does affect the Concertgebouw archives (Mengelberg, his correspondence with Mahler, Strauss and others, the scores of Mahler 7 and the Fahrenden Gesellen), all of them part of the Nederlands Muziek Instituut (NMI), which will lose its funding per 1/1/2013 if the cuts are effectuated as proposed by the Dutch government.
Other archives which will become beyond reach for daily study by scholars are those related to the Franco-Burgundian-Flemish-Dutch composers from the Renaissance (from Obrecht/Ockeghem through DesPrez to di Lasso and Sweelinck), and it threatens the Complete Works Editions of these composers by the Koninklijke Vereniging voor Nederlandse Muziekgeschiedenis (KVNM) as well.

[Preston]

What the Dutch government is actually saying is similar to cutting off the edges from Rembrandt's Nightwatch or Van Gogh's Sunflowers, sdaying that one doesn't need such a big painting, and throwing away the cut off parts

Messed up indeed. Hope things work out for the better.