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What a cool PR strategy. Bram,
even your newspaper tailors its news for you...
nice story, thank you for sharing. Wow! Such a picture and article would never appear on the front page of an article here. People in your country take classical music a lot more seriously than people here (U.S.). People on their way to work in the Netherlands might even stop to listen to Joshua Bell play his violin. Which concert hall is it that they are rebuilding in Utrecht?
I was in Utrecht for 4 years from 1979 to 1983.
Is it the concert hall for the Utrecht Symphony (it's a round setup somewhat like the Concert Gebouw)? The concerthall is called Vredenburg near the station for trains. The Utrecht Symphony Orchestra did not exist any more, because they did not get subsidy, because the government did not want to spend too much money for orchestra's and art. All orchestra 's need extra money to exist, except the walse orchestra of André Rieu, the Johann Strauss Orchestra, which plays walses and easy listening music from musicals for a broader and not-intellectual and on-élite public.