Missa: A new project about the origin of Holland

Missa is a new project of Musica Extrema and tells the story of the origin of Holland. It is a original composition in the form of a mess and has eleven parts. The music is a cross-over of classical music, jazz and worldmusic. The Dutch lyrics were written by Jan Rot, and the story is narrated by Marga van Praag.

Missa  is a musical story about the battle against the water of the Dutch people,  the emergence of the cities in Holland with the notorious nobles and aristocrats ,  Jacoba van Beieren,  the civil wars and the terrible disaster and  major flooding  named as the St Elisabeth flood

An orchestra (Música Extrema), four vocalists (Muriel van Dinteren, Claudia Patacca, Erik Slik, Jan Willem Baljet), a choir and a narrator (Marga van Praag) is filling the stage of some beautiful churches and venues in Holland.

Fore more information and tickets click here

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Round Midnight Orchestra in South-Africa

In September the Round Midnight Orchestra will be touring through South-Africa. The band will play at the mainstage from the Standard Bank Joy Of Jazz Festival for an audience consisting of over 3500 people while being part of a festival line-up with big names like Joey DeFrancesco, Cassandra Wilson and David Sanborn. Next to that the Round Midnight Orchestra will play at venues like The Orbit – Home of Jazz, Soweto Theatre and Ginz On Dynasty.

This performance is a collaboration between the Joy of Jazz Festival, Amersfoort Jazz and Stichting JazzNL and was also made possible by Buma Cultuur, Sena Performers and Fonds Podiumkunsten. Ikaros van Duppen (BumaCultuur) was at Joy Of Jazz before and was stunned by the festival. It is a great chance for Dutch Jazz Artists to internationally promote themselves.

The band will not only consist of settled names like Izaline Calister, Ben van den Dungen, Rolf Delfos, Peter Beets, Marius Beets and Alexander Beets. Young talents like Tom Ridderbeekx and Wouter Kuhne are also part of The Round Midnight Orchestra.

(Picture by Marie-jose Eldering)

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The Society

The Society of Associated Musicians and Raconteurs named as ‘The Society’.
The Society is an imaginative band in which the listener is taken to the cinematic thirties and the glory days of jazz. The time when jazz was the most important side issue of life.
The thirties made for the flourishing of this exciting music and delivered a variety of rock-solid bands such as the orchestra of Duke Ellington, Fletcher Henderson and Billy Eckstine.. Characterful tenorsaxophone players such as Coleman Hawkins, Ben Webster, Lester Young and Paul Gonzalves were embraced by the public.
The Society is a reaction of the abstraction of contemporary modern jazz of these days. The Society makes music with a large dose of nostalgia but still plays this music with the urgency of today.
This summer The Society will recording their first album. T.B.A.

Ben van den Dungen Trio

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Cafe Du Monde & Tin Pan Alley

For the upcoming theatre season Musica Extrema are preparing two brand new music shows. The concerts will take place in the Dutch theatres between January and October 2019.

Cafe du Monde feat. Joke Bruijs
Each region, country and time has their own songs of life. These songs have in common that they describe both the joyful and melancholy moments that shape everyday life. Also songs about universal themes such as love and heart break, sung with great intensity and devotion.
Café du Monde is a musical production in which the most popular songs of life from over the whole world are performed. Tracks from The Netherlands, Italy, France, but also South-America. The song of life, chanson, schlager, copla, blues, fado, and smartlap in a fantastic musical production. Come and listen to the lyrical poets in Café du Monde!

Tin Pan Alley i.a.w. Het Internationaal Danstheater
During the Roaring Twenties, music became a large part of life in the big cities, especially in New York. Hundreds, if not thousands of composers and musicians composed new songs day in, day out on Tin Pan Alley.
Modern American music has its roots in Tin Pan Alley, where musical geniuses would take inspiration from each other and influence one anothers music: Eastern-European and Jiddish music blended with Italian music and jazz. Balkan gypsy music crossed paths with sweet, British love songs. This brought about an unprecedented development that eventually would lead to music as we know it today.

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Concerts in Poland

Ben van den Dungen Quartet is going on tour in Poland.
This summer the group are going to give some concerts in Poland. The Ben van den Dungen Quartet was invited by the Jazzfestival in Krakau. After there performance in Krakau they will give a couple of other concerts in some clubs in Poland. The concert dates are:
13 & 14 July – Summer Jazzfestival in Krakau
15 July – Summer music salon in Elbing
16 July – Gutshaus in Ramin
17 July – Stara Rzeznia in Szczecin

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