On 1 June Edo de Waart, honorary conductor of the Radio Philharmonic Orchestra, turns 80. On 30 April, he conducts the AVROTROS Friday Concert in a programme featuring Brahms' Second Symphony and, with the assistance of the Groot Omroepkoor, Nänie and Gesang der Parzen.
In the run-up to his birthday concert, Edo de Waart is the focus of attention on NPO Radio 4 and NPO 2 Extra. An overview.
On Sunday 25 April Edo de Waart was a guest in the Podium Witteman programme on NPO2. Watch the whole broadcast here.
After the broadcast, Podium Witteman Extra broadcasted a conversation that Hans Haffmans had with Edo two years ago about his career and the RFO. Watch this broadcast here.
An ensemble of the Radio Philharmonic Orchestra played for Edo Henk de Vlieger's arrangements of Wagner's Siegfried-Idyll and the Prologue to the third act of Lohengrin.
On Monday 26 April Edo was the one-hour guest of Hans Haffmans in Podium on NPO Radio 4. They talked about his career, his years with the Radio Philharmonic Orchestra and his favourite music.
Listen to the whole broadcasthere.
The rest of the week, too, the programmes De Klassieken and Podium devoted attention to Edo de Waart on NPO Radio 4.
On Wednesday 28 April, Roland Kieft, director of the Radio Philharmonic Orchestra, addressed Edo de Waart. Because of his artistic significance for the orchestra and his role in training young conductors, the orchestra is naming the assistant conductorship after Edo de Waart: the Edo de Waart Assistant Conductorship.
