Symposium on the life and work of Misha Mengelberg, with keynote by trombone player and Columbia University professor George Lewis.

Misha Mengelberg is one of the greats of jazz history. In celebration of his 80th birthday, the Holland Festival will present his opera Koeien and the Bimhuis will present together with the Holland Festival a symposium at the Bimhuis, Misha’s Afternoon. Moderated by Koen Schouten, the symposium addresses Mengelberg’s role as an avant-gardist, thinker and Instant Composer. The keynote will be given by trombone player and Columbia University professor George Lewis. There are contributions by the journalist Kevin Whitehead, author of the widely read book New Dutch Swing, and musicologist Floris Schuiling (University of Cambridge). Benjamin Herman will contribute musical interludes. Mengelberg’s peer, composer Louis Andriessen, will be interviewed, and a book containing 24 interviews with Mengelberg will be presented.

PROGRAMMA:
George Lewis: Living with Misha
Floris Schuiling: Animals, Viruses and Instant Composition: Misha Mengelberg’s Philosophy of Music
Kevin Whitehead: Digested Lessons of the Master

Benjamin Herman Kwartet

The Bimhuis restaurant
is open from 6 til 8.30PM (reservations via
020-7882158). The Bimhuis Café is also open (free
entrance).

Visitors of Misha’s Middag get 6 Euro discount for the ticket of the Doek Festival concert Saturday night.

Met George Lewis, Floris Schuiling, Kevin Whitehead, Erik van den Berg, Louis Andriessen, Benjamin Herman & band

Benjamin Herman altsax, Dominic J Marshall piano, Tobias Nijboer bas, Tijn Jans drums