Today I'm spending some time with the 93 year old Theo Loevendie, one of the first living composers I worked with as a student. I'm coming back to his music after 25 years, to prepare two concerts with the Concertgebouw Orchestra. We speak about his youth, his influences, and about the two works I'm preparing: Flexio for orchestra and Six Turkish Folk Poems for singer and orchestra.

Here's info about the music you hear: 

Draaiorgel Sarie Marais - Appeltjes van Oranje  

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BgOlWzqXXnY

Glenn Miller - American Patrol 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EAVejLjXVdw

Umm Kulthum - 1967, Live at the Olympia, Paris

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XPGHpBOt5sE

Theo Loevendie - Six Turkish Folk Poems  

Dorothy Dorow, soprano 

Residentie Orkest 

Ernest Bour, conductor 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TU4090D14hs

Theo Loevendie - Flexio 

Residentie Orkest 

Peter Eötvös, conductor 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BYxMTfeEbFQ&t=412s

Theo Loevendie - Venus and Adonis 

Insomnio:  

Carlos Galvez, bass clarinet 

Bas Wiegers, violin 

Martine Sikkenk, mandolin 

Reinhold Westerheide, guitar 

Ulrich Pöhl, percussion 

(private recording) 

Photo Loevendie: Teo Krijgsman