“FEIER/FIRE”

“FEIER/FIRE”

A festive event with a haunting edge about approaching catastrophe, and how we deal with it.

Feier / Celebration

Partying towards the precipice

With music by George Gershwin, Cole Porter and Kurt Weill.

 

The Roaring Twenties. A musical and cultural heyday between two world wars. Glitter and glamour beneath the looming shadow of the catastrophe that is still fresh in the collective memory. A proverbial dance on the edge of the volcano, some 100 years ago, that looks alarmingly like today.

 

The Berlage Saxophone Quartet and singers Karin Strobos and Martijn Cornet will be presenting an evening’s entertainment with a selection of songs from those turbulent interbellum years: the age of jazz, big bands, and of course the growing dominance of the saxophone. George Gershwin, Cole Porter and Kurt Weill will all be present in arrangements by Wijnand van Klaveren. He has forged the Saxophone Quartet into a combination of big band, orchestra and ‘bar piano’. They will be conjuring up every conceivable sound that their saxes can produce. Choreographer/director Pim Veulings and stage designer Paul Boereboom have set the programme in an undefined period.

 

Every age has its crises, and our reactions to them all look frighteningly familiar: stick you head in the sand and party towards the precipice.

 

A festive event with a haunting edge about approaching catastrophe, and how we deal with it.

 

People, time to party!

Concerts

"Feier/Fire" - Heemstede May 17th 2025, 20:15h

Together with singers Martijn Cornet and Karin Strobos, we created a musical performance about how people deal with an approaching crisis. The starting point is music from the 1920s, composed and arranged for saxophone quartet and two voices by Wijnand van Klaveren. This period is part of a turning point in music history, where the saxophone made waves in both classical and popular music. The pieces we choose are meant to express a jovial atmosphere with a serious undertone, a very special characteristic of the time.

Music by a.o. W. van Klaveren, G. Gershwin, Cole Porter, Kurt Weill, Mischa Spoliansky.

"Feier/Fire" - Kapel op 't Rijsselt, Eefde May 25th 2025, 11:30h


Together with singers Martijn Cornet and Karin Strobos, we created a musical performance about how people deal with an approaching crisis. The starting point is music from the 1920s, composed and arranged for saxophone quartet and two voices by Wijnand van Klaveren. This period is part of a turning point in music history, where the saxophone made waves in both classical and popular music. The pieces we choose are meant to express a jovial atmosphere with a serious undertone, a very special characteristic of the time.

Music by a.o. W. van Klaveren, G. Gershwin, Cole Porter, Kurt Weill, Mischa Spoliansky.

"Feier/Fire" - Jagthuis Sint Hubertus September 7th 2025

Together with singers Martijn Cornet and Karin Strobos, we created a musical performance about how people deal with an approaching crisis. The starting point is music from the 1920s, composed and arranged for saxophone quartet and two voices by Wijnand van Klaveren. This period is part of a turning point in music history, where the saxophone made waves in both classical and popular music. The pieces we choose are meant to express a jovial atmosphere with a serious undertone, a very special characteristic of the time.

Music by a.o. W. van Klaveren, G. Gershwin, Cole Porter, Kurt Weill, Mischa Spoliansky.

"Feier/Fire" - Sint Aegtenkapel, Flint Theater November 11th 2025

Together with singers Martijn Cornet and Karin Strobos, we created a musical performance about how people deal with an approaching crisis. The starting point is music from the 1920s, composed and arranged for saxophone quartet and two voices by Wijnand van Klaveren. This period is part of a turning point in music history, where the saxophone made waves in both classical and popular music. The pieces we choose are meant to express a jovial atmosphere with a serious undertone, a very special characteristic of the time.

Music by a.o. W. van Klaveren, G. Gershwin, Cole Porter, Kurt Weill, Mischa Spoliansky.

"Feier/Fire" - Stadsgehoorzaal, Aalmarktzaal October 10th 2025, 20:15h

Together with singers Martijn Cornet and Karin Strobos, we created a musical performance about how people deal with an approaching crisis. The starting point is music from the 1920s, composed and arranged for saxophone quartet and two voices by Wijnand van Klaveren. This period is part of a turning point in music history, where the saxophone made waves in both classical and popular music. The pieces we choose are meant to express a jovial atmosphere with a serious undertone, a very special characteristic of the time.

Music by a.o. W. van Klaveren, G. Gershwin, Cole Porter, Kurt Weill, Mischa Spoliansky.