{"id":3972,"date":"2020-02-22T03:17:23","date_gmt":"2020-02-22T03:17:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/?p=3972"},"modified":"2020-02-22T03:26:03","modified_gmt":"2020-02-22T03:26:03","slug":"reinbert-de-leeuw-dies-at-81","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/2020\/02\/22\/reinbert-de-leeuw-dies-at-81\/","title":{"rendered":"Reinbert de Leeuw, Dies at 81"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2020\/02\/21\/arts\/music\/reinbert-de-leeuw-dead.html\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Reinbert de Leeuw, Dutch Champion of Contemporary Music, Dies at 81<\/a> <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>He pushed conservative institutions to program the new, and was a noted conductor of major avant-garde works.<br \/>\n&#8230;<br \/>\nMr. de Leeuw declared his all-embracing philosophy in the 1995 program booklet. The ambition of approaching contemporary music \u201cwith a universal language comparable to the language of tonality has failed,\u201d he wrote. It was no longer feasible, he continued, to distinguish between musically \u201ccorrect\u201d and \u201cincorrect\u201d camps. Rather, he said, it was essential to understand the \u201ccomplexity and variety of the music of our century.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=nLQhYmesIR0\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Reinbert de Leeuw plays Erik Satie &#8212; live 1982<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static01.nyt.com\/images\/2020\/02\/22\/obituaries\/20De-Leeuw1\/merlin_26174141_45f946cc-470a-4d6f-8078-63c3945c7e01-superJumbo.jpg?quality=90&#038;auto=webp\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reinbert de Leeuw, Dutch Champion of Contemporary Music, Dies at 81 He pushed conservative institutions to program the new, and was a noted conductor of major avant-garde works. &#8230; Mr. de Leeuw declared his all-embracing philosophy in the 1995 program booklet. The ambition of approaching contemporary music \u201cwith a universal language comparable to the language &#8230; <span class=\"more\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/2020\/02\/22\/reinbert-de-leeuw-dies-at-81\/\">[Read more&#8230;]<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,2148,13,16,18],"tags":[2465,2463,2460,2469,2462,2464,2468,2461,2467,2466],"class_list":{"0":"entry","1":"post","2":"publish","3":"author-sergneri","4":"post-3972","6":"format-standard","7":"category-faits-divers","8":"category-obituaries","9":"category-politics","10":"category-sea-stories","11":"category-this-day-in-history","12":"post_tag-bartok","13":"post_tag-claude-vivier","14":"post_tag-dutch","15":"post_tag-erik-satie","16":"post_tag-gyorgy-ligeti","17":"post_tag-louis-andriessen","18":"post_tag-messiaen","19":"post_tag-netherlands","20":"post_tag-shostakovich","21":"post_tag-stravinsky"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3972","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3972"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3972\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3977,"href":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3972\/revisions\/3977"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}