{"id":1053,"date":"2025-06-20T16:23:18","date_gmt":"2025-06-20T14:23:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.merelvercammen.com\/?post_type=project&#038;p=1053"},"modified":"2025-06-20T16:37:48","modified_gmt":"2025-06-20T14:37:48","slug":"but-what-about-contrasts","status":"publish","type":"project","link":"https:\/\/www.merelvercammen.com\/en\/project\/but-what-about-contrasts\/","title":{"rendered":"But what about: Contrasts"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Eighty years after his death, violinist Merel Vercammen and ensemble But What About explore the musical world of B\u00e9la Bart\u00f3k in an interactive concert for violin, accordion, and (bass) clarinet.<\/strong><br>The starting point is his iconic work <em>Contrasts<\/em> (1938), through which we unravel the apparent oppositions in his music: modernism versus folk music, composition versus improvisation. With the audience as our guide, we trace Bart\u00f3k\u2019s musical development, examining his methods and combining his works with improvisations in his spirit. Bart\u00f3k\u2019s well-known <em>Romanian Dances<\/em> will also be part of the programme.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Available for booking from summer 2026<\/strong><em>: <\/em><a href=\"mailto:info@merelvercammen.nl\">send an mail<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Contrasten (offici\u00eble trailer) feat. Merel Vercammen\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/SKU7zM6LDQ0?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":964,"template":"","class_list":["post-1053","project","type-project","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merelvercammen.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/project\/1053","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merelvercammen.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/project"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merelvercammen.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/project"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merelvercammen.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/964"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merelvercammen.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1053"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}