Tafel Muziek / Musicall Banquet
Tonight, we place a table at the heart of Splendor’s great hall. It will be our concert stage—the place around which we gather as musicians, audience members, friends, and colleagues. Throughout Not only has the table served at the center of feasts and negotiations, but many musical traditions have grown from gatherings around tables, often accompanied by wine and food. From German Barock “Tafelmusik” and Downland’s popular early printed scores to be read around a table to vibrant Brazilian Samba de Roda (or Samba hodja, as it is sometimes called), the table has be the center of a Musicall Banquet.
Our offering will be a “Stone Soup” brewed by a wide variety of musicians who are reuniting from their meeting in Amsterdam at the turn of the millennium and joined by subsequent co-creators. The music will center around Early Modern polyphony, but will be bookended by Gregorian Chant (in memoriam of Prof. Eugeen Liven d’Abelardo) and contemporary improvisations, culminating in a desert of dancing and jazz with Almost Hypnotic (Bas van Lier, hammond organ, and Erik Kooger, drums).
You are warmly invited to join us around the table for songs and music from many ages. While we can’t offer you dinner, we will provide a musical banquet—and of course, Splendor’s bar is open all evening!
Vocals: Melanie Remaud (IT), Sophia Brumfitt (UK), Christopher Fuelling (US)
Members of Ensemble Elyma, Cappella Confluentes and the Gregorian men's scola Hartkeriana
Cecilia Lasagno (IT) - harp
Thomas Johannsen (Genetic Choir) - vocals
Marije Nie - vocals/tap dance
Almost Hypnotic:
Bas van Lier, hammond organ,
Erik Kooger, drums
And more tba
Member concert
Splendor can only be the independent and free hub that it is, thanks to the members who support us. We pay them back with our specialty: music. Every year, all Splendor musicians play one concert that's free for this crucial group to whom Splendor owes its everyday existence. Combined with many other events, this means that our members have free entrance to over 50 concerts a year for €9,99 p/m (and €4,99 p/m for minima and students!) – and receive a discount for all other concerts. Pretty good deal, right?
The members enable Splendor to remain independent, which is the only way to secure real freedom in programming, experimentation, risk-taking and the promotion of young, upcoming artists. If you can think of another place without a central programming, where last-minute concerts can be planned any moment, where there is no backstage and artists and audience are constantly mingling and hanging out at the bar, where mysterious creative outbursts can be presented that are often labeled 'too risky' elsewhere, and that still guarantees high quality by unleashing the best of The Netherlands' music scene in this creative playground – you get a free membership!
Would you rather just visit this concert without becoming a member? You're more than welcome! Buy your ticket(s) below.
