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Mountain Top for sampler, mixed choir and percussion group by: Nederlands Kamerkoor and Radio Kamerfilharmonie’percussionists conducted by Otto Tausk, with videos by Jaap Drupsteen.

On May 31 JacobTV’s "Mountain Top" for mixed chorus, percussion ensemble and sampled voice, was premiered in Amsterdam's Concertgebouw. The 17-minute work includes excerpts from King's April 3, 1968 speech in Memphis with the chorus echoing his words, almost as witnesses. The performance, with video projections, was filmed for NPS Dutch television, who also made a new documentary about JacobTV. From Jochem Valkenburg's review in NRC: "Every now and then JacobTV seems to turn King into an angel, weightlessly flying in a halo of heavenly choirs. . . The ending, in which basses and marimba seek quiet in the depths, is breathtaking." 


Pimpin' - 2 versions featuring the baritone sax:
solo version by Willem van Merwijk, 'Around JacobTV' at the Kikker, Feb. 2 Utrecht NL
complete version by Connie & the Pimps, JacobTV recital at the Congress of the North American Saxophone Alliance, Columbia, SC USA,April 19
Pimpin' is now available for sale in the boombox shop

Ethel

Cities change the Songs of Birds for harp and boombox by Lavinia Meijer, World Harp Congress Amsterdam, July 19, caused a scandal... Is this Musical Terrorism? blog
Trouw: "The harp could use this more burly imago, quite a relief after all the sweet music that was heard before. A remarkable composition ".