30 JAAR BL!NDMAN
For BL!NDMAN’s birthday, Eric Sleichim is putting together an impressive festive programme that both harks back to its roots and looks to the present with contemporary compositions.
BL!NDMAN’s three quartets will play MINIMAL / MAXIMAL with pieces by Philip Glass, Thierry De Mey, Peter Vermeersch and Louis Andriessen. Following the interval is WATER & FIRE; a new performance of Handel’s Water Music and Fireworks by BL!NDMAN [sax], [drums] and [strings] together with a fully automatic Decap organ.
Thanks to the National Lottery who help make these concerts for BL!NDMAN’s 30th anniversary possible.
Eric Sleichim: artistic direction, arrangements, alto saxophone, tubax
BL!NDMAN [sax]
Koen Maas: soprano saxophone
Pieter Pellens: soprano, alto and baritone saxophone
Piet Rebel: tenor saxophone
Raf Minten: baritone saxophone
BL!NDMAN [drums]
Hannes Nieuwlaet: marimba, percussion
Yves Goemaere: vibraphone, percussion
Christiaan Saris: vibraphone, percussion
BL!NDMAN [strings]
Stefanie Van Backlé: violin
Femke Verstappen: violin
Monica Goicea: viola
Suzanne Vermeyen: cello
Elisa Medinilla: piano
Programme
MINIMAL / MAXIMAL
Louis Andriessen: Workers Union
Steve Reich: Nagoya Marimba
Thierry De Mey & Peter Vermeersch: Habanera
Thierry De Mey: Musique de Tables
Philip Glass: In Similar Motion
Thierry De Mey: Balatum
WATER & FIRE + Decap Orchestrion
Georg Friedrich Händel, arr. Eric Sleichim and Reitze Smits: Water Music Suite, selection
Jean-Féry Rebel, arr. Eric Sleichim: Le Cahos (from Les Elémens)
Georg Friedrich Händel, arr. Eric Sleichim and R. Smits: Music for the Royal Fireworks
