\u2018Mama!\u2019 is the live recording of the 2004 New Year\u2019s Concert by VARA and the Netherlands Wind Ensemble, held on 1 January in the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam. It is an ode to life, a serenade to the figure where all life begins and to the first word we all learn as children: Mama!
\nMothers are where everything begins, and they stay with us our whole lives. All guest soloists are, of course, mothers. Flamenco singer Curra Suarez is a mother, as are the ten South-African overtone singers and soul singer Autumn Leaves (the young Maartje Teussink still has a while to go yet, however). The youngest people involved in the programme are the nine Young Composers aged between 12 and 17, the lucky winners of the annual composition contest that is part of the New Year\u2019s concert. This DVD also includes highlights from the 2003 New Year\u2019s concert (The Netherlands Wind Ensemble and Street Musicians), and the Young Composers documentary.<\/p>\n
\u2018Time and again, the Ensemble surprises and delights with fresh programmes that make every single New Year\u2019s concert a unique post-modern celebration \u2013 an astonishingly broad spectrum of musical styles paraded in joyful, tightly organised anarchy.\u2019<\/em> \u2018An exotic contribution was made by the Ngqoko overtone singers with their monochordal bowed gourds (uhadi); Autumn Leaves, the stunning and charismatic envy of the hall, was a soul diva who both sang \u2013 and embodied \u2013 the Hip-Shakin\u2019 Mama. Young artiste Maartje Teussink is the owner of a solid, powerful and extremely versatile voice, commanding the hall to silence in her performance of a traditional lullaby from the Dutch region of Twente.\u2019<\/em> Soloists<\/span> Curra Suarez (singer), Autumn Leaves, Ngqoko, Maartje Teussink (singers) \u2018Mama!\u2019 is the live recording of the 2004 New Year\u2019s Concert by VARA and the Netherlands Wind Ensemble, held on 1 January in the Concertgebouw.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":2567,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"product_brand":[],"product_cat":[82],"product_tag":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-5768","1":"product","2":"type-product","3":"status-publish","4":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"product_cat-cd-en","8":"first","9":"instock","10":"taxable","11":"shipping-taxable","12":"purchasable","13":"product-type-simple"},"acf":{"product_subtitle":""},"yoast_head":"\n
\nHet Parool daily paper<\/p>\n
\nNRC Handelsblad daily paper<\/p>\n
\nYoung composers<\/span> Eline Hofstra, HuFF (Sander Blommaert, Ruben Nijssen), Just Jammin\u2019 (Thomas Meijaard, Quinten Huigen, Gideon Hamburger, Niels Berne, Kagan Hans)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"