Cracking the Dutch Early Music Movement: the Repercussions of the 1969 Notenkrakersactie
- UNCG Author/Contributor (non-UNCG co-authors, if there are any, appear on document)
- Kailan Rubinoff, Assistant Professor of Musicology (Creator)
- Institution
- The University of North Carolina at Greensboro (UNCG )
- Web Site: http://library.uncg.edu/
Abstract: The Notenkrakersactie of 17 November 1969 was a landmark event for Dutch musical life: a group of composers disrupted a concert of the Concertgebouw Orchestra, protesting against the orchestra’s lack of contemporary music programming. Scholars have tended to interpret this protest as a watershed for the avant-garde, but historical performance – not just contemporary music – proved to be a significant beneficiary. Early Musicians, like New Musicians, had common political goals and appealed to the youth counterculture. Ensuing reforms to the federal arts subsidy system, state-funded music schools, and conservatories in the 1970s were also advantageous for the Dutch Early Music movement. During the welfare retrenchment of the 1980s and the subsidy restructuring of the 1990s, Early Music ensembles economized and had greater success with mainstream recording companies and audiences than new music groups. Nearly forty years after the Notenkrakersactie, traditional symphony orchestras have less influence on Dutch musical life, but recent cutbacks to arts subsidies threaten contemporary music and historical performance alike.
Cracking the Dutch Early Music Movement: the Repercussions of the 1969 Notenkrakersactie
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Additional Information
- Publication
- twentieth-century music
- Language: English
- Date: 2011
- Keywords
- Music, Music History, Early Music Movement, Notenkrakersactie