This month the Vrijhof Cultural Center celebrates the seventh anniversary of Broodje Cultuur. All of the winners of the Broodje Cultuur Prize awarded by the public will return for special shows. There will also be a special anniversary exhibit, an anniversary buffet for Broodje Cultuur committee members, and much more.
The first event will take place on Monday, September 2, marking the opening of the academic year, of the cultural season, and of the Broodje Cultuur anniversary celebration.
Mezzo Macho, Winner of Broodje Cultuur Public Prize 1997 will regale the UT with numbers from their 2001 CD, In the Whyland. Mezzo Macho is an adventurous a cappella quartet which delights in taking liberties with every conceivable kind of music, from pop to country, from classical to jazz and back again. Solemn close harmony, poems set to music, nursery rhymes in unexpected new guises, startling vocal effects and razor-sharp parodies (in a variety of languages) all vie for attention in the course of the show, which also features on-the-spot improvisation and audience participation, all in MEZZO MACHO's inimitable fashion. Mezzo Macho came to the Vrijhof for the first time in October 1996 to perform Berensonata and won the very first Broodje Cultuur Public Prize. They have since returned several times with fresh programs. The multi-dimensional voice work of the four singers (Jack Breikers, Wilbert Friederichs, Ron Mesland and Hans Scholing) in combination with the direction of Albert Hoex guarantees a spectacular vocal high jinks.
Mon, Sept 2, Vrijhof Amphitheater, 12:35 pm, Free for first year students and for other students with Union+ card. Each attendee will receive a special gift!
Following the a cappella performance at 1:45 pm, the "35 years Broodje Cultuur" exhibit will open in the Vrijhof Exhibit Room.
At 6 pm in de Stek, there will be an anniversary buffet dinner for past and present committee members, accompanied by the piano and saxophone music of Edwin Dertien and Gijs van Oort.
In the evening, the sixth annual Broodje Cultuur Public Prize will be awarded by Mr. Hassink, Enschede City Council Member in charge of Culture, to Klezmer Band Oor Hasjachor. Klezmer music is Yiddish instrumental music - cheerful, stirring, and at the sametime melancholic, with the clarinet and the violin in the lead roles. Besides playing instrumental klezmer music, Oor Hasjachor also offers a repertoire of Yiddish songs sung by Gina Spoelstra in her own enthusiastic manner. Bart Eugelink plays clarinet, bass clarinet, guitar and kaval, with Leen Hoogenboom on the accordion, Martin Senders on contrabass, Erik Poorterman on drums, and Tessa Zoutendijk on viola.
Mon, Sept 2, Vrijhof Amphitheater, 8 pm.
Finish this magnificent day with a drink in the Theatercafé, where Edwin Dertien and Gijs van Oort will once again perform all sorts of music on piano and saxophone.
