Maarten van Rossem & Asko I Schönberg & Storioni Trio

“What does my story have to do with this music? Very little.” So says Maarten van Rossem, the Netherlands’ best-known historian and champion in wilful individuality. He is nevertheless entering into the confrontation of talking and music. Perhaps with some surprising points of contact.
Van Rossem thinks keenly about the nation with which he has a love-hate relationship: America. He gives his talk in a setting of the best contemporary American music. The Storioni Trio plays Ned Rorem’s brisk ‘Spring Music’. Asko|Schönberg perform David Lang’s ironic ‘Cheating, Lying, Stealing’, in which for once the composer shows not his good qualities, but his worst. The winner of the 2014 Tromp International Percussion Competition can let himself go in Mackey’s ‘Micro-Concerto’, which was written out of a fascination for the one-man-band mentality of many percussionists. All manner of kitchen items and hobby shop paraphernalia make their appearance. Amazing!