Bovenstaande video toont de allerlaatste minuten van de Nederlandstalige uitzending van de Wereldomroep op vrijdagavond 11 mei 2012. Een buitengewone multimediale presentatie vormde de onontkoombare finale van een schitterende 24-uurs radiomarathon. In een sfeer van gepaste trots en weemoed kwamen nog één keer allerlei hoogtepunten voorbij uit de 65-jarige geschiedenis van Radio Nederland Wereldomroep. Aan de totstandkoming van deze laatste uitzendminuten leverde ik ook een flinke bijdrage middels het researchen, selecteren en aanleveren van alle audio-archieffragmenten die erin voorbijkomen.
Het was een afscheid zonder weerga, dat wereldwijd met veel medeleven werd gevolgd door trouwe, dankbare luisteraars. Het slottafereel voltrok zich in Hilversum in een dramatisch buitendecor, aan weerszijden van de vijver voor het Wereldomroepgebouw, letterlijk onder toeziende ogen van honderden medewerkers uit heden en verleden. Deze afsluiting van de Nederlandse uitzendingen vormt een mooie herinnering aan een wereldspeler in Hilversum die tientallen jaren van onschatbare betekenis is geweest voor talloze Nederlanders in het buitenland. Vaarwel Radio Nederland Wereldomroep.
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The brilliant living art of Theo Jansen
Hahaha, I think this kind of ‘living art’ is total fun 🙂 and constitutes a totally unique combination of science, technology, art, philosophy and humour. A(n ‘other’) victory of the human spirit. Theo Jansen is a genius.
Valentina Lisitsa 14 Nov. 2010 in Vrije Geluiden on dutch national television
On November 14th, 2010, VPRO television’s sunday morning music programme Vrije Geluiden features classical pianist Valentina Lisitsa. I was at the set in the BIMhuis in Amsterdam and before and after the shooting of her playing and interview I took a few pictures that I present in my YouTubevideo above, a video on my YouTubechannel. In my video I combined my photos of Valentina with her playing of the Rachmaninoff/Warenberg Concerto’s second movement theme, a recording that was also made in Amsterdam, in May 2010. In Vrije Geluiden Valentina plays other not to be missed music by Rachmaninoff: Prelude Op.32,no.5, Etude Tableau Op.39, No.6 and Prelude Op.32, no.12. So don’t miss VPRO’s Vrije Geluiden on 14 November 2010, featuring Valentina Lisitsa, Nederland 1, 10.30 AM (dutch time). Extra information for non-dutch people: Vrije Geluiden is Holland’s weekly tv show for ‘serious music’, featuring the best artists and all kinds of great music in the realms of jazz, classical and world music. The recordings – so, also Valentina’s performance and interview – will be published not long after the broadcast on the website of Vrije Geluiden and on Vrije Geluiden’s YouTubechannel.
Playing around India : A portrait of Dutch cellist Saskia Rao-De Haas (2002)
Playing around India – A portrait of Dutch cellist Saskia Rao-de Haas, a radio documentary by Pieter de Rooij, produced in 2002. [original Dutch title: Op streek in India – een portret van de Nederlandse celliste Saskia Rao-de Haas]
The documentary is mostly in dutch, but this video offers a transcript in english locked to the timetable, in order to make this production accessible for an international audience. To allow convenient reading of this transcript, you should play the video in HD (1080p).
Production date: May-June 2002. First broadcast by Concertzender on 8 November 2002, also broadcast by Radio Netherlands on 25 and 29 December 2002. Voice narrator: Wim Vriezen.
In the documentary ‘Playing around India’ (produced May-June 2002) programme maker Pieter de Rooij introduces the career of the brilliant 31-year-old (that is, in 2002) cellist Saskia Rao-de Haas. She is one of the very few people, and the only European, to play the classical ragas of North India on the cello. She is considered the only genuine cello soloist by the Indian concert going public. Her virtuosity and deep musicality have introduced a new resonance to Indian music and have been enthusiastically receieved by critics and audiences worldwide. To achieve a proper Indian sound Saskia Rao-de Haas plays on a specially modified cello: smaller (so as to be able to be played sitting on the floor), with five instead of the usual four strings, and with ten ‘sympathetic’ strings. These freely resonating strings give a beautiful Indian sound to the cello and the instrument has quickly become very popular.
For two years (speaking from 2002) Saskia Rao-de Haas has lived in New Delhi with her husband, the famous Indian sitar player Shubhendra Rao. As well as traditional raga improvisations, she and her husband play their own compositions in which they mix classical Indian music with elements from European folkmusic and Western classical music.
In May and June 2002 Saskia and Shubhendra toured outside India when, for the first time, Western audiences were able to hear the combination of sitar and cello in Indian classical music. Programme maker Pieter de Rooij caught up with the couple in Amsterdam where they gave a concert at the KIT Tropen Theatre on 25 May. Saskia talks about her music, her cello and her life in India. Her husband Shubhendra, the violin maker Eduard van Tongeren and her former teacher at the Rotterdam Conservatory, Joep Bor, all have something to say about Saskia’s amazing cello adventure. Recordings from the Amsterdam concert are heard during the documentary.