24.03.08 — 02.04.08
Robin Hayward : Jan van Gorp
Robin Hayward : Jan van Gorp
‘Jan van Gorp’ consists of a series of compositions for the trio ‘Zinc & Copper Works’ and viola, starting from the sounds and gestures of Flemish dialects. Jan van Gorp (Johannes Goropius Becanus, 1519-1572) was a Dutch physician, linguist and humanist, who theorized that Antwerpian Flemish, or Brabantic, spoken in the region between the Scheld and Meuse Rivers, was the original language spoken in Paradise…In this QO2-period Hayward will work out his first compositions.