Programme
- Days of Dutch Design
Rotterdams
Jongenskoor (Rotterdam Boys Choir)
Dates: 23 - 30 September
Location: State Hermitage and Palace for the Creativity
of Young People, Smolny Cathedral
Information
Preliminary programme
- 23 September: Fringe programme with the Royal St. Philomena of Kerkrade.
- 25 September: Performances in several schools
- 26 September: Performance at the Palace for the Creativity of Young People, for pupils of several private schools and orphan schools. If possible other Dutch ensembles will be involved in this performance.
- 27 September: Concert with the St. Petersburg Boys Choir at the Smolny Monastry (now a concert hall), possibly with other Dutch ensembles and orchestras.
- 27- 28 September: activities with guest families
- 29 September: performance as part of an event for a business relation of the Port of Rotterdam (to be confirmed). Also, farewell evening for the boys and their guest families.
- 30 September: Performance at the opening of the conference on the environment at the Marinsky palace, organised by DCMR Environmental Protection Agency Rijnmond.
Each concert will contain a suitable selection of the
following repertoire:
- Music from the age of / time of the foundation of St. Petersburg, to which Tsar Peter the Great might have listened in his time.
- Musical narrative by Dutch sailor and poet Willem Schellinger (17th century) about a sea trip to Russia in the seventeenth century: Reise naer Franckrijck en Muscovien.
- Miscellaneous Dutch music
- Medley maritime Rotterdam; a compilation of traditional maritime songs and songs from Rotterdam, with a simultaneous video performance about Rotterdam and its port.
- Short
presentation by two choir boys of Dutch words and expressions in the Russian
language and of the cultural maritime links between language and history
- Russian
music: part from evening prayers of Sergeij Rachmaninow, Pjotr
Ilwitsch Tsjaikowski, Dmitri Bortnianski,
- Antonio Vivaldi's Gloria, performed with two boys choirs and a symphony orchestra.
