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A LADY OF NOBILITY |
19 -7-2006 |
Lady Henriette van Lennep, a Dutch composer in the classical romantic genre, became just after the second world war a pioneer of ' world music' on the Dutch radio, following the example of Constatin Braïloïu and the Unesco. Listen to her life story illustrated with unique recordings of her compositions and her 'lost' radio broadcasts |
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The life story of Herman ten Kate, a Dutch traveller, physician, and ethnologist of the turn of the 19th and 20th century. In his writings he gives a vivid account of the large-scale destruction of the indigineous cultures in his time. Excerpts of his writings varying from his description of the Indian slaves of an Argentinean museum till his lonely discovery of the remote regions of the Indonesian island Sumba are illustrated with music recordings of the period.
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THIS MIRACULOUS WORK |
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A biography in sound of Freerk Kamma (1906-1987), who spend his life spreading the christian message and writing on the Papua cultures of the northern part of West Papua. A selection of his music recordings, his stories and interviews with his children, friends and colleagues. |
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The song detective Willem van Warmelo emigrated in 1939 to South Africa where he got fascinated with the music of the Cape Malays. He wrote articles, made recordings and broadcasts untill the growing apartheid forced him to leave the country in 1962. A selection of his recordings and excerpts from his dairies. |
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THE WORLD AS WILL AND REPRESENTATION. PART 2
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The second part of the story of Arthur Schopenhauer's great journey through Europe in 1803 and 1804. A reconstruction based on passages from his dairy and his mother's travelogues alternated with music from the period. |
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THE WORLD AS WILL AND REPRESENTATION. PART 1 |
16-9-2004 |
The first part of the story of Arthur Schopenhauer's great journey through Europe in 1803 and 1804. A reconstruction based on passages from his dairy and his mother's travelogues alternated with music of the period. |
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EUGENE BRANDS AND THE MUSIC OF MAN |
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The Cobra painter Eugene Brands was an ardent collector and propagator of world music. A selection from his 78 rpm collection, interviews with family members, friends, colleagues and admireres and a selection of his writings on music. |
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BABAR LAYAR |
4-3-2004 |
The story of the first 'white' gamelan ensemble from its beginnings during the second world war till 1956. Interviews with the surviving members of the group, excerpts of publications by and on the ensemble and their recordings. |
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A POET’S JOURNEY AROUND THE WORLD |
9-10-2003 |
In 1933 the famous Dutch poet and writer Slauerhoff gave a lecture in the Hague in which he invited the public to follow him on his journeys around the world through his poems and prose. A reconstruction with the voice of his biographer Kees Lekkerkerker and the music Slauerhoff listened to. |
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