4 Grand Piano Pavilion by Dr� Wapenaar

4 Grand Piano Pavilion by Dr Wapenaar
Dr� Wapenaar designed the 4GPP: 4 Grand Piano Pavilion specially for the composer Simeon ten Holt whose music has a strong spatial effect.

For the Boulevard theatre festival in Den Bosch, 5-14 August 2004, Wapenaar's mobile 4 Grand Piano Pavilion was erected in the Bossche Broek.

Here Michiel Borstlap, Ram�n Valle and others performed Ten Holt's music.

Ten Holt's music has been performed in concert halls as well as in churches, parks and once even in the hall of a railway station.

Now for the first time a space has been specially designed for the music, one that represents a combination of elements: the spatiality of a concert hall like Vredenburg, the openness of a park, the silence of a church and the continual bustle of a station.

The tent is a sculptural translation of Ten Holt's music, as it were.

Moreover, the tent is mobile and meant to function in different places.

Concerts generally require sitting quietly in a space for two hours or more.

During concerts in Wapenaar's tent the public, amounting to around 200 persons, can sit and stand, walk around, go outside or have a drink, and all this time Ten Holt's music can be heard, even in the toilets.

In addition to this dynamic quality, the position of the public in relation to the pianists is also exceptional.

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