Today I'm spending some time with the 93 year old Theo Loevendie, one of the first living composers I worked with as a student. I'm coming back to his music after 25 years, to prepare two concerts with the Concertgebouw Orchestra. We speak about his youth, his influences, and about the two works I'm preparing: Flexio for orchestra and Six Turkish Folk Poems for singer and orchestra.
Here's info about the music you hear:
Draaiorgel Sarie Marais - Appeltjes van Oranje
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BgOlWzqXXnY
Glenn Miller - American Patrol
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EAVejLjXVdw
Umm Kulthum - 1967, Live at the Olympia, Paris
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XPGHpBOt5sE
Theo Loevendie - Six Turkish Folk Poems
Dorothy Dorow, soprano
Residentie Orkest
Ernest Bour, conductor
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TU4090D14hs
Theo Loevendie - Flexio
Residentie Orkest
Peter Eötvös, conductor
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BYxMTfeEbFQ&t=412s
Theo Loevendie - Venus and Adonis
Insomnio:
Carlos Galvez, bass clarinet
Bas Wiegers, violin
Martine Sikkenk, mandolin
Reinhold Westerheide, guitar
Ulrich Pöhl, percussion
(private recording)
Photo Loevendie: Teo Krijgsman
