Ask a Dutchman!

[Agent327]

Dutch composer Otto Ketting died today, aged 77. Apparently completely unknown in the English speaking world, he wrote 5 symphonies (no 1, 2 , 3, 4, 6), having the 6th premiered this February. He also completed 2 operas Dummies and Ithaka], after Kaváfis/Cavafy), wrote 9 pieces for wind instruments, and composed film music as well.

An excerp from the 1st symphony (using 12 tone technique) can be heard here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Wtg4LSXw1I

An excerpt from Time Machine (for horns) here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Wtg4LSXw1I (link to part 2 top right).

 

[Glassfan]

God bless Douse Egberts Koninklijke Tabaksfabriek-Koffiebranderijen-Theehandel NV, for my daily Java.

 

[Ziggy Stardust]

Douwe Egberts

And yes, it is indeed very tasty and I enjoy it on a daily basis.

We also have a Doutzen who is also rather tasty.

 

[strijder20]

Dutch composer Otto Ketting died today, aged 77. Apparently completely unknown in the English speaking world, he wrote 5 symphonies (no 1, 2 , 3, 4, 6), having the 6th premiered this February. He also completed 2 operas Dummies and Ithaka], after Kaváfis/Cavafy), wrote 9 pieces for wind instruments, and composed film music as well.

An excerp from the 1st symphony (using 12 tone technique) can be heard here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Wtg4LSXw1I

An excerpt from Time Machine (for horns) here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Wtg4LSXw1I (link to part 2 top right).

My condoleances.

Do you have any clue what happened to number 5? It's rather intriguing...

 

[Agent327]

Not really; it isn't mentioned where I have been looking. (Personally I've only ever heard one piece of Ketting performed on the radio.)

 

[Jan H]

I played a solo-piece by Ketting when I was still studying trumpet in the music school. It was called "Intrada". I also have a recording of it, but then played on french horn. That's all I know about Ketting

 

[mayor]

I never heard of the man

 

[Glassfan]

Douwe Egberts

And yes, it is indeed very tasty and I enjoy it on a daily basis.

We also have a Doutzen who is also rather tasty.

Yes, we were briefly married in the 90s.

 

[Takhisis]

She's Frisian, not Dutch.

<gets into bunker>

 

[Glassfan]

Indeed, I had to pay for everything...

 

[Agent327]

That would make her Dutch, not Frisian.

 

[Takhisis]

If you pay for them they're Dutch?

 

[Ziggy Stardust]

I do ...

 

[Agent327]

If you pay for them they're Dutch?

Hmmm... no, I think you're referring to something else...

 

[Glassfan]

I met her in De Walletjes...

 

[Agent327]

Ofcourse you did.

 

[Ziggy Stardust]

We all did.

 

[Agent327]

Meanwhile in actual news alot of Dutchmen showed their "concern" about a washed up humpback on the shore of Texel island last weekend. Rescue attempts failed (it just stranded again), but the rescuers received nationwide deatthreats and minor insults on their respective websites/FB pages. All in the spirit of Christmas, I imagine, where one cares about a single mammal one's never seen, but ignores the fate of humans out in the cold...

http://phys.org/news/2012-12-dutch-stranded-whale.html (where Texel is called a Frisian isle, but it's situated north of North Holland province)

 

[Glassfan]

That's reminiscent of the California woman killed by a cougar back in the 90's. After authorities hunted and euthanized the cat, her kits were found in a nearby cave. Donations from animal lovers started coming in to "support the kittens" and quickly amounted to over $30,000. Eventually a local reporter ran a story about how the cubs were well provided for but the how children of the human victim had been largely ignored.

 

[Glassfan]

Dutchman keeps paper-making traditions alive at his Shikoku studio

"Rogier Uitenboogaart, who has been charmed by the world of washi (traditional Japanese paper) for the past three decades — especially its deep relationship with nature and people's everyday lives — is trying to help preserve both nature and the traditional craft in this country.

"During his trip, he met a Japanese woman who was later to become his wife. They decided to settle down in Kochi — the part of Japan where plants used to make traditional paper are grown.

"Uitenboogaart built a washi-making studio in 1992, and opened the guesthouse in 2006. At his studio, he now produces Tosa (Kochi) washi using traditional techniques, plus cotton paper using the traditional method of his home country, the Netherlands, and original washi combining ingredients of both traditional washi and cotton paper. "By rediscovering the paper-making tradition of the Netherlands, I realized the beauty of the washi-making even more," he said."