{"id":4515,"date":"2016-11-10T16:01:36","date_gmt":"2016-11-10T15:01:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nbe.wp2.go2people.nl\/en\/?post_type=musici&#038;p=4515"},"modified":"2024-08-15T13:37:06","modified_gmt":"2024-08-15T11:37:06","slug":"willem-van-merwijk","status":"publish","type":"musici","link":"https:\/\/nbe.wp2.go2people.nl\/en\/musici\/willem-van-merwijk\/","title":{"rendered":"Willem van Merwijk"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"flex-shrink-0 flex flex-col relative items-end\">\n<div>\n<div class=\"pt-0\">\n<div class=\"gizmo-bot-avatar flex h-8 w-8 items-center justify-center overflow-hidden rounded-full\">\n<div class=\"relative p-1 rounded-sm flex items-center justify-center bg-token-main-surface-primary text-token-text-primary h-8 w-8\">Just as David Bowie has his Ziggy Stardust, saxophonist Willem van Merwijk (Bemmel, 1960) regularly transforms into his alter ego, composer Guillermo Lago. Willem is what you might call a musical jack-of-all-trades.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"group\/conversation-turn relative flex w-full min-w-0 flex-col agent-turn\">\n<div class=\"flex-col gap-1 md:gap-3\">\n<div class=\"flex max-w-full flex-col flex-grow\">\n<div class=\"min-h-[20px] text-message flex w-full flex-col items-end gap-2 whitespace-pre-wrap break-words [.text-message+&amp;]:mt-5 overflow-x-auto\" dir=\"auto\" data-message-author-role=\"assistant\" data-message-id=\"7d25a324-96a9-4627-90b7-8872698c5043\">\n<div class=\"flex w-full flex-col gap-1 empty:hidden first:pt-[3px]\">\n<div class=\"markdown prose w-full break-words dark:prose-invert light\">\n<p>The first time Guillermo Lago appeared was during the creation of two compositions for the concert program <em>Tang\u00f3n<\/em>. Together with the Aurelia Saxophone Quartet, of which Willem is a founding member, the saxophonist wanted to explore how concert tango had evolved after the death of its great innovator, Astor Piazzolla.<\/p>\n<p>In composing, Willem discovered the Spaniard within himself. \u201cGuillermo Lago turned out to fit wonderfully with the music I was creating, so I decided to continue composing under this name.\u201d The saxophonist now has more than forty compositions to his name, including the piece <em>Bloemen in de Stilte,<\/em> specially written for the National Remembrance Day 2011.<\/p>\n<p>For the Nederlands Blazers Ensemble, of which Willem has been a member since 1990, he has arranged numerous pieces, including Wagner\u2019s <em>Der Ring des Nibelungen<\/em> and Saint-Sa\u00ebns\u2019 <em>Danse Macabre<\/em>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":2767,"menu_order":18,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-4515","musici","type-musici","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","instrumenten-saxophone"],"acf":{"musici_link_type":"link","musici_extra_images_vids":false,"musici_social_url":""},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Willem van Merwijk - Nederlands Blazers Ensemble<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"noindex, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Willem van Merwijk - Nederlands Blazers Ensemble\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Just as David Bowie has his Ziggy Stardust, saxophonist Willem van Merwijk (Bemmel, 1960) regularly transforms into his alter ego, composer Guillermo Lago. 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