A national crisis in the art of improvisation! That was the word going around after it emerged that no Dutch participant had been selected for this year’s International Organ Improvisation Competition in Haarlem. And in the very year in which this venerable...
A memory from seventy years ago: I am four years old. Our family is travelling by train from our home city of Rotterdam to Ermelo, where my grandparents live. We change trains in Amersfoort. The local train to Zwolle gathers speed. “Pay close attention,” my mother...
