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Music centre at the IJ (lake near Amsterdam) +violincard22

September 20, 2006 at 11:12 AM

Apart from the Concertgebouw Amsterdam has a concerthall with 750 seats for 21 th century music, called Music centre at the IJ (a lake against Amsterdam)
http://www.muziekgebouw.nl/gebouw_detail.asp?id=3
I have played there the violinconcerto of Philipp Glass (1987), minimalistic music, with an amateurorchestra. A friend found some watery cards, because the concerthall is build in the water, the IJ (lake)





AHH! French horn!
Hey, that looks like the violin Kevin got from John Thornton!
What, are they suspended in blue jello?

Hmm. I have an idea.

Those are good pics, Bram. The Concertgebouw, like many old concert halls in Europe, is well known for good acoustics. What are the acoustics like in the watery concert hall? Since I don't care much for contemporary music, I think it's entirely appropriate to have a smaller concert hall for it.
Hi Pauline,The first 2 pics I copied from the website of the watery concerthall, the last 3 pics are scans from the scanner of my work, I make during the lunch-break. The acoustic of this modern hall is very good, as I remember, and the knowledge about to make the akoustic of a hall better have been improved the last years because of more research and modern techniques. Neverthelees the akoustic of the Concerthall, and old hall, is also very good. Carla Leurs even consider it better than Carnegy Hall. I have played in Rudolphium in Prague, Czech Republik. It was half full, but it had the akoustic of an old church with a too long reverbaration, although it is beautiful for the end-chord of an orchestra with a choir, because the last note sounds a lot longer than normally.
They also play older classical music in the watery hall, I see on the site, like a lunch-concert without paying (like in the Concertgebouw with Carla Leurs)
A stringtrio plays:
Ludwig van Beethoven Strijktrio nr. 1 in Es, opus 3

Z. Kodály Intermezzo

E. Dohnányi Serenade, op. 10