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Music
The Concertgebouw is indisputably the most important asset built in Bruges on the occasion
of 2002. The Brugge 2002 organisers were the first to be able to present programmes there.
We opted for a very wide-ranging programme. It was characterised by some experimentation
and the discovery of frontiers, but we also chose programmes that would play on this
beautiful infrastructure to the full.
In addition we also scheduled events at a whole host of sites all over the city. This
involved 39 projects in all, involving some three hundred orchestras or music groups.
More than 55,000 tickets were sold. Counting the free music events as well, we come
to a total estimate of almost 90,000 listeners - a broad public for a wide-ranging programme.
Series
We programmed a large number of series, from symphonic to vocal, from classical to
contemporary and experimental. Folk, world music and jazz were also on offer.
Homage – Creation was a series of five concerts for orchestra, with a strong classical
work on the one hand and a seldom-played Flemish creation on the other. The
Belgian National Orchestra, deFilharmonie, the Flemish Radio Orchestra, the
Flanders Symphony Orchestra and the Beethoven Academy provided for this series
and enjoyed their first acoustic experience in the Concert Hall.
These outstanding acoustics were also immediately audible during the inaugural concert
on 20.02.2002, in which Anima Eterna played the Concertgebouw in with
Haydn’s “Die Schöpfung”.
Most of these orchestras made more than one appearance, playing in other programmes
spread across the year. For example, the Flemish Radio Orchestra gave a
notable concert with Raymond van het Groenewoud and with Will Tura.
DeFilharmonie gave of its all on the KBC Acquarius Day with creations by composition
students and a closing concert with Tom Barman (dEUS). There was also a good
offering in the way of foreign orchestras:
the Wiener Symphoniker, the Orchestre
National de Lille and the Orchestra of the
Renaissance.
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The Chamber Music Hall was also immediately
beguiling, not in the least because of
the exceptional atmosphere in this “cortile”.
The Chamber Music Hall was played in by
the Spiegel String Quartet, the first in a
series of five prestigious String Quartets, the
others being the Keller, Danel, Schönberg
and Minguet quartets.
Festivals
Various festivals were organised in a specific
line or around a particular theme.
BRUGGE 2002 supplemented the
renowned festival of old music Musica
Antiqua with a couple of concerts.
Almost 14,000 tickets were sold for this
two-week festival, which comprised 27
concerts.
Jazz Brugge 2002
Sponsor visibility at the Concertgebouw
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