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16.04.07 — 21.04.07
Robin Hayward – ‘Jan Van Gorp’
Robin Hayward – ‘Jan Van Gorp’
Robin Hayward will work on the first preparations for a new composition, ‘Jan Van Gorp’. This project will consist of a series of compositions for the trio ‘Zinc & Copper Works’ and viola, starting from the sounds and gestures of the Flemish dialect.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 Scheldand Meuse Rivers, was the original language spoken in Paradise…