Talk:Holland Festival

Emdebe can you clarify any of these links (Not found in TRFZB) or shall I delete them?

Duncan 08:43, 26 Nov 2006 (PST)

"Dutch Midgets", "Dutch Girl With Ugly Teeth", and "The Hague" = "Them Or Us (The List)"...

"The Hague" ---> TRFZB: "ORCHESTRAL STUPIDITY #2" - The second one goes like this: in 1980, in Amsterdam, the head of the Holland Festival came to my hotel and said the Festival wanted to do a "special performance of my orchestral music" with the Residentie Orchestra (from The Hague), as well as performances of certain other smaller pieces by the Netherlands Wind Ensemble, all of these performances to take place during one whole 'special week' of the festival.

"Ahoy" ---> TRFZB: "ORCHESTRAL STUPIDITY #2" - What happened? Well, first let's understand the economics of a project like this. It involves a lot of musicians and they all like to get paid (this is a mild way of putting it). Also, since it was to be an amplified concert, there is the problem of special equipment to make the sound as clear as possible in the hall. (It was called the Ahoy -- a charming sort of Dutch indoor bicycle racing arena with a concrete floor and a banked wooden track all around the room.) Also, there was going to be a recording of the music, necessitating the expenditure of even more money for the rental of the equipment, engineer's salary and travel expenses, etc., etc., etc.

All entries relate to The Netherlands.

--Emdebe 12:39, 26 Nov 2006 (PST)