Off the Wall 2012 – JacobTV: THE NEWS
Friday, April 27, 2012, 9 p.m.
Dutch composer JacobTV (Jacob Ter Veldhuis) has roots in rock music, though he studied composition and electronic music at the Groningen Conservatory. JacobTV, a controversial maverick within the established modern classical music scene, has scheduled over 1000 performances worldwide per year. According to the Wall Street Journal his newest work ‘makes many a hip-hop artist look sedate’. He has a unique “avant pop” sensibility that exists at the high/low crossroads of rock, pop, jazz and classical music. As he puts it: ‘I pepper my music with sugar”. It’s seems appropriate that the Dutch press called him the ‘Andy Warhol of new music’. JacobTV will première his new “reality opera”, THE NEWS. This nonfiction video opera is a topical form of Gesammtkunstwerk, based on original footage from the international media: “revealing” one-liners from the likes of Barack Obama, Sarah Palin, Silvio Berlusconi, Fox News, TV evangelists and more.
Co-presented with The Pittsburgh Cultural Trust as part of the Distinctively Dutch Festival.
Off the Wall 2012 is supported in part by the Mid-Atlantic Arts Foundation