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The cutting edge - CvA Bigband
Event by: Muziekgebouw aan 't IJ
Location: Muziekgebouw aan 't IJ, Piet Heinkade 1, Amsterdam - Amsterdam-Oost
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Get to know the futuristic music of Robert Graettener on February 13, 2026 in the Muziekgebouw. A unique experience!
'A new world is opened here, we have never heard of this, Bovenwerelds, the future, "said music magazine Glorious sounds in 1955 about the music of the American jazz composer Robert Graettinger. His sound world now sounds just as challenging and imaginative as then. Werner Herbers mentioned Graettingers City of Glass in an interview an impressive piece with 'At the end [...] A Tutti agreement, almost twelve tones, Fortississimo, which explodes like a bomb and pops the room.'
Program:
robert graettinger thermopylae / incident in jazz Too Marvellous for Words / Transparency / Untitled Original (Two in One) / Loverman / Untitled Original (for Frank) / Everyinging Happens IGAZZZOT IBTY or GILLAGZOT IBTY or GILLAGZZOT IBTY or GILLAGTS átytyt át!
Johnny Carisi Counterpoise #1 and #2
And new compositions Student Conservatory of Amsterdam
'A new world is opened here, we have never heard of this, Bovenwerelds, the future, "said music magazine Glorious sounds in 1955 about the music of the American jazz composer Robert Graettinger. His sound world now sounds just as challenging and imaginative as then. Werner Herbers mentioned Graettingers City of Glass in an interview an impressive piece with 'At the end [...] A Tutti agreement, almost twelve tones, Fortississimo, which explodes like a bomb and pops the room.'
Program:
robert graettinger thermopylae / incident in jazz Too Marvellous for Words / Transparency / Untitled Original (Two in One) / Loverman / Untitled Original (for Frank) / Everyinging Happens IGAZZZOT IBTY or GILLAGZOT IBTY or GILLAGZZOT IBTY or GILLAGTS átytyt át!
Johnny Carisi Counterpoise #1 and #2
And new compositions Student Conservatory of Amsterdam