Dutch gypsy orchestra Csardas + violincard 26, 27

February 12, 2007 at 12:00 PM

Last weekend I was at a concert of a Dutch gypsy orchestra from Leiden. I remember that a violinfriend said 30 years ago that this orchestra exists. I went visiting them during a rehaersal, but they did not need me as afterbeat 2th violinist. They had a gypsy trumpet player from Rumania and a woman singer also from Rumania. They played music from Hungary, Rumania, Russia, Moravia (east Czech), Slovakia. Once piece was the original of de Sarasate Zigeunerweise (which I played with an orchestra).
Here is their website http://www.csardas.nl . It is funny music

I was also in the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam where I heard Gidon Kremer (it was his birthday 60) playing with his Baltic orchestra adagio of the 10th symfony of Mahler, filmmusic of Korngold, trauermusic of Goebaidoelina (a violinconcerto) and pieces of Astor Piazzola and an arrangemant of Glenn Miller and the orchestra was crooning during the last note. I earlier heard Kremer with this Piazzola, Miller-programm