‘Bach is a Moluccan! It’s just you know ‘

There you are as a journalist. On the agenda an interview with who again? Oh yes, an alto violinist who will always escape with a piccolo and first. And where are you anyway? You have checked in at the Tulip Inn in Overveen, but you awaken – noise in your ears – in the Bach Suite of the Waterfall Hotel in the Germany Black Forest. Well, that wants to make you believe that three -headed staff. And then there are other images through your head. And – you told everyone: « I have a deadline! »

‘You’, that is Noraly Beyer, who is on stage as more or less himself in the absurdist performance What do you mean bach?!. Former Journal presenter Beyer no longer has it. She tries to keep her head above water, by summarizing the events around her in Nieuwsbulletins. « And then the weather. Wind force does not apply today. »

Confusing times

In the meantime, she wants to know from viola player and Piccolo Esther Apituley what the hell of Johann Sebastian Bach in these confusing times. « You are Moluccans, don’t you? What do you have to do with him, » Beyer asks. « Bach is the origin and the destination, » appeals Apituley. « He is the voice of the past and ultrasound of the future, at the same time timeless and always new. Bach is a Moluccan! » Beyer opens her next bulletin with it: « The Moluccas are partying. Finally justice. In Bach’s birth city Eisenach, riots broke out. »

How does man wap against the current grilling on the political world stage? Politicians’ answer is spending more money on Defense. But you can – what the show What do you mean bach?! Doe – just as hard with a touch of absurdism and seek salvation from the old tondler from Leipzig. His work has lost nothing to beauty and meaning over the centuries. This includes the ingenious adaptations of Apituley for its viola, for the electric guitar of Marnix Dorrestein and the bass guitar of Xander Vrienten: the other other two freshly acting and musician main characters in What do you mean bach?!.

Aria

An aria from the Matthäus-Passion In the form of a Dutch life song here, a guitar riff there. Or the Prelude and fughetta A Capella for three singers in Swingle Singers style on Ba-Ba-Ba-Ba and finally of course BA-Ch. Point.

The fascination of Apituley for the German composer started with a musical role in the show Frau Bach From actress Yvonne van den Hurk two decades ago. Ten years later there was Bach and bleachthe meeting between the viola player and a cleaning lady. And now then What do you mean bach?!. In the heart of these three performances it is always her ‘Bible’: the Chaconnea monument of being human. With her quirky playfulness and humor, Apituley shows again and see that Bach belongs to a healthy pattern of life.

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