Foreigners desiring an authentic taste of western European Christmas should head to Delft’s Old Church on December 15th and feast their eyes and ears on a Christmas concert with a very special TU flavor.
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On December 25th Christians all over the world will celebrate the birth of Jesus Christ, a.k.a Christmas, a season marked by good will to all, the spirit of giving, and peace on earth (at least theoretically). During the Advent, which marks the beginning of the liturgical year, religious rituals prepare for the celebration of Christmas and Christmas carols are sung. Happily for us in Delft, one of the best choirs in the world, the St John’s College Choir Cambridge, will give a concert in Delft’s ‘Oude Kerk’ on December 15. The choir has performed on all the world’s continents, delighting audiences from Sydney’s Opera House to Tokyo’s Suntory Hall and London’s Wigmore Hall. In Great Britain, the choir is considered to be one of the freshest and most exciting collection of male voiced consorts to perform in the last 30 years.
Notably, one of the choir’s altos is a former TU Delft student. Lester Lardenoye studied physics for a year at the TU’s Faculty of Applied Sciences and then transferred to the University of Cambridge. Lardenoye: ,,The choral scenes in England, and especially the choirs in Cambridge, have always been a bit of a little boy’s dream for me. I’ve sung since the age of eleven, and music has become a major part of my life. I applied for a place as a Choral Scholar at St John’s College in Cambridge, never expecting to get it. But I was lucky and ended up in the choir that I always regarded as the best college choir in Britain.”
But that’s not the end of the TU connection: During the concert the Cambridge choir will sing the Ave Maria, composed for four-part choir and treble soloist by TU professor Coen Vermeeren as the central part of his work, Mysterium. Vermeeren composed his first piece on an out of tune piano while still a student. Vermeeren: ,,The moment I saw the piano I knew I could compose a music piece on it, and somehow, within a half hour, I had managed to compose the O Magnum Mysterium inspired by Tomas Luis’ Da Vittoria original.” For more information on Vermeeren’s work, visit www.coenvermeeren.nl.
Tickets for the Dec. 15th concert can be purchased at www.muziekinstituut.nl/johns/. At the website, click on ‘Online kaarten bestellen: Delft’, and then fill in the order form.
Foreigners desiring an authentic taste of western European Christmas should head to Delft’s Old Church on December 15th and feast their eyes and ears on a Christmas concert with a very special TU flavor.
On December 25th Christians all over the world will celebrate the birth of Jesus Christ, a.k.a Christmas, a season marked by good will to all, the spirit of giving, and peace on earth (at least theoretically). During the Advent, which marks the beginning of the liturgical year, religious rituals prepare for the celebration of Christmas and Christmas carols are sung. Happily for us in Delft, one of the best choirs in the world, the St John’s College Choir Cambridge, will give a concert in Delft’s ‘Oude Kerk’ on December 15. The choir has performed on all the world’s continents, delighting audiences from Sydney’s Opera House to Tokyo’s Suntory Hall and London’s Wigmore Hall. In Great Britain, the choir is considered to be one of the freshest and most exciting collection of male voiced consorts to perform in the last 30 years.
Notably, one of the choir’s altos is a former TU Delft student. Lester Lardenoye studied physics for a year at the TU’s Faculty of Applied Sciences and then transferred to the University of Cambridge. Lardenoye: ,,The choral scenes in England, and especially the choirs in Cambridge, have always been a bit of a little boy’s dream for me. I’ve sung since the age of eleven, and music has become a major part of my life. I applied for a place as a Choral Scholar at St John’s College in Cambridge, never expecting to get it. But I was lucky and ended up in the choir that I always regarded as the best college choir in Britain.”
But that’s not the end of the TU connection: During the concert the Cambridge choir will sing the Ave Maria, composed for four-part choir and treble soloist by TU professor Coen Vermeeren as the central part of his work, Mysterium. Vermeeren composed his first piece on an out of tune piano while still a student. Vermeeren: ,,The moment I saw the piano I knew I could compose a music piece on it, and somehow, within a half hour, I had managed to compose the O Magnum Mysterium inspired by Tomas Luis’ Da Vittoria original.” For more information on Vermeeren’s work, visit www.coenvermeeren.nl.
Tickets for the Dec. 15th concert can be purchased at www.muziekinstituut.nl/johns/. At the website, click on ‘Online kaarten bestellen: Delft’, and then fill in the order form.
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