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MARLIES CLAASEN AND THE BUDAPEST SAXOPHONE QUARTET (WAGENINGEN) CONCERT

Ticket price: A belépés díjtalan.


HOUSE OF ARTS GÖDÖLLŐ
theater
Start of the event: 2017. 10. 06. (Friday) 18.00

Marlies Claasen singer and the Budapest Saxophone Quartet first met at one of the concerts of the quartet in Holland in October 2012. As they heard the famous and popular pieces of music, they started thinking of the idea of a possible mutual, interesting and unique project, because the audience accepted those pieces there with applause (e.g. Astor Piazzolla: Oblivion). The Budapest Saxophone Quartet has regularly had concerts together with different formations for a long time (e.g. jazz trio), so the question arose if they could have a mutual project with Marlies Claasen’s trio. Since then they have managed to create a special schedule which has appealed to several prominent people. The original idea was that the saxophone quartet only contributes to a few songs on the new album of the Marlies orchestra but finally much more exciting own songs (as well as film music, famous performers’/composers’ songs) were involved in their mutual production, because this special musical instrument composition and set (female vocal, guitar, percussions, four saxophones and clarinets) creates a new, individual sound in their performance. Their first mutual album appeared in 2013 with the title ‘Silent Words’ and they started an album debut tour in Holland in 2014. The success of this unique production is proven by the fact that in autumn 2015, when they had four concerts in Hungary, it was always full house and the audience accepted them with ovation. 
The songs of the repertoire of the orchestra are mainly composed by the married couple Claasen-Klein: Marlies mainly writes the lyrics and Tom Klein composes the melodies. One of their really popular songs is ‘Dad’s Guitar’. The result of their mutual production is the famous song ‘Tavaszi szél vizet áraszt’ (‘Spring wind floods water’), which always appeals to the audience even abroad, due to its unique scoring.         
                                                   
Members of the two orchestras:

Marlies Claasen – vocal
Tom Klein – guitar

Arie den Boer – percussions

Bence Szepesi  – clarinet/saxophone

Levente Puskás  – clarinet/saxophone

Bernát Tószegi  – clarinet/saxophone 
Marcell Horváth – clarinet/saxophone

 








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