Program Booklet

Close to Classics

Friday, January 24
21:15 hour until approximately 10:15 p.m.

Experience the overwhelming sounds of the finest music from within

A special concert, which takes a different approach than usual. Therefore a brief explanation, so you can prepare well for the evening.

🕰️ doors open

The doors of Amare Studio (on the 3rd floor of Amare) will open about 15 minutes before the concert. For the concert, please visit Foyer 1 on the 1st floor of Amare.

🤫 Sssst...

The musical experience begins the moment you enter the hall. The request is therefore to sit as quietly as possible and not to talk loudly once you are inside. It is therefore also recommended that you wear shoes with soft soles to minimize noise.

🪑 Changing seats

During the concert, 80 seats are placed between the orchestra, and 80 seats in a square around the orchestra. Halfway through the concert, all visitors change seats, with seat numbers remaining the same (e.g., seat 5 in the orchestra changes with seat 5 around the orchestra). Visitors who first sat among the orchestra move to the seats around the orchestra and vice versa. In this way, everyone can experience both unique experiences.

📵 Phone

We kindly ask that you limit phone use so that other visitors are not disturbed by screen light, for example.

Programme

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Biographies

Residentie Orkest The Hague
Orchestra
The Residentie Orkest has been setting the tone as a symphony orchestra for nearly 120 years. We are proud of that. We have a broad, surprising and challenging repertoire and perform the finest compositions.
Chloe Rooke
Conductor
Chloe Rooke won the Audience Award of the distinguished Donatella Flick LSO Conducting Competition in 2021 with her boundless energy and infectious fun and was a prize winner of the International Conducting Competiton Rotterdam. Is since this season 'emerging artist in residence' of the Residentie Orkest.
The Residentie Orkest presents the conductor with a linocut by The Hague artist Mariska Mallee at this concert.

Fun Fact

Amsterdam

Vivaldi's Four Seasons are one of his best-known works. But did you know that they were published in Amsterdam? The piece of music was printed and published in 1725 along with eight other concertos titled Il cimento dell'armonia e dell'inventione (The Measurement of Harmony and Invention). Indeed, Amsterdam was home to one of the most important music publishers in Europe, founded by printer Estienne Roger.

Fun Fact

Ribkwal

Tonight's One Minute Symphony was written by Robin Fiedler. "Shortly before I started writing, I read about a rib jellyfish, a deep-sea jellyfish with an amazing ability. These animals are able to merge into one when one of them is injured. The way to heal each other is literally to merge two into one. I wanted to capture the amazing monstrosity of what it must feel like to literally merge with another organism."

Read more in our magazine: One Minute Symphony - Robin Fiedler >

Today in the orchestra

Naomi Bach

First violin

Frank Dolman

Double Bass

Hans Colbers

Clarinet
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