More than half of the world population is Christian, Muslim of Jewish. Despite differences there are also striking similarities. Holy places, holy books is a unique exhibition at the MAS | Museum aan de stroom about the pilgrimage to holy places, while concurrently offering at the Heritage Library Hendrik Conscience a view of the form, content, usage and study of the Tanach (the Old Testament as used by Jews), the Bible and the Koran. An ambitious project supported by several heritage associations and by the three communities of faith. 

AMUZ also participates in this expo with a series of lectures on the religions involved, enlivened with music. Further information on the speakers and the musicians will be available later in the AMUZ journal. On Wednesday, January 14 a closing concert will take place with a.o. Patrizia Bovi & Fadia el Hage.

23 October, 2014 20:00 -- AMUZ

On six Sundays during the season 14|15 AMUZ serves a lush brunch at its unique foyer. The marvelous 19th-century winter chapel, decorated with wall paintings in neo-Byzantine style, offers a perfect environment for a copious buffet. The brunches at AMUZ start at 11:30 a.m. If you feel like it, you can take in the matinee concert afterwards.

• When? Preceding the matinee concerts on Sunday 12 October, 26 October, 9 November, 21 December (Christmas brunch), 18 January, 22 February and 1 March, from 11:30 a.m. on.
• Where? AMUZ foyer, Kammenstraat 81, 2000 Antwerpen.
• A brunch consists of: welcome cava, fruit juice, coffee and tea| oven-fresh assortment of bread | selection of fine cheeses and cold cuts | sweet and salty sandwich filling | hot and cold seasonal dishes | choice of desserts.
• Price: a brunch costs € 29 for those who attend the concert and € 36 if you don’t have or buy a ticket. Groups of minimally 8 persons pay only € 32 each. Children from 3 to 13 can eat their fill for half the price. Concert tickets are not included in the price.
• Advance booking is imperative.

Do you want to offer someone a brunch and a concert in AMUZ? Then take a look at our gift vouchers.

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21 December: order brunch
18 January: order brunch
22 February: order brunch
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26 October, 2014 10:30 -- AMUZ

Les Buffardins is a group of friends who spent formative years with the pioneers of early music in the Low Countries: the Kuijken brothers, Anner Bijlsma, Gustav Leonhardt a.o. The ensemble was already hosted by AMUZ in 2011. Now they offer a new programme with focus on the French baroque giant Jean-Philippe Rameau.

The Pièces de clavecin en concerts, published in 1741, are Rameau’s only chamber music. These works appeared after his repertoire for harpsichord solo and immediately before Les Indes Galantes. Artistic manager Frank Theuns, well-known as a soloist with Anima Eterna, also selected for this concert music by Jean-Marie Leclair, Jean-Baptiste Forqueray and Pierre Gabriel Buffardin. From the latter the ensemble borrowed its name.

Performers
François Fernandez, violin | Maia Silberstein, violin | Barbara Konrad, viola | Rainer Zipperling, cello & viol | Frank Coppieters, violone | Siebe Henstra, harpsichord | Frank Theuns, traverso & artistic direction

Programma
Music by P.G. Buffardin, J.P. Rameau, J.B. Forqueray & J.M. Leclair

26 October, 2014 14:00 -- AMUZ

Les Buffardins is a group of friends who spent formative years with the pioneers of early music in the Low Countries: the Kuijken brothers, Anner Bijlsma, Gustav Leonhardt a.o. The ensemble was already hosted by AMUZ in 2011. Now they offer a new programme with focus on the French baroque giant Jean-Philippe Rameau.

The Pièces de clavecin en concerts, published in 1741, are Rameau’s only chamber music. These works appeared after his repertoire for harpsichord solo and immediately before Les Indes Galantes. Artistic manager Frank Theuns, well-known as a soloist with Anima Eterna, also selected for this concert music by Jean-Marie Leclair, Jean-Baptiste Forqueray and Pierre Gabriel Buffardin. From the latter the ensemble borrowed its name.

26 October, 2014 15:00 -- AMUZ

[Attention: Joke Hermsen replaces Willem Jan Otten for this lecture]
In the august sacral concert hall of AMUZ six speakers are invited to deliver a lecture on their personal pilgrimage and their individual quest in life.

The lectures are distinctively different, yet at the same time truly universal. They deal with the personal reflection on contemporary society and the search for a genuine spirituality, from the vantage point of a specific cultural and societal environment, which is firmly rooted in Islam, Judaism and Christianity, respectively.

Joke J. Hermsen (1961, the Netherlands) is a writer and philosopher. She is the author of the philosophical bestseller ‘The Stilling of Time’, already counting 21 editions. This study of time, creativity and inspiration was awarded the Jan Hanlo Essay Prize in 2011. Joke Hermsen is a lively and sought after lecturer. Her lectures deal with a different attitude vis-à-vis time, reflection and inspiration, creative and sustained leadership, commitment and community. In her new book ‘Kairos, a New Enthusiasm’ Hermsen opposes ‘technocratic thinking’, engaging in philosophical pleading for a new enthusiasm of the homo empathicus as the enabling condition to find a way out of the economic and ecological crisis. Hermsen reflects in this lecture for AMUZ on the return of religion in the shape of art, literature and philosophy as a guardian of transcendence.

Music: Patrizia Bovi – chant

06 November, 2014 19:00 -- AMUZ

More than half of the world population is Christian, Muslim of Jewish. Despite differences there are also striking similarities. Holy places, holy books is a unique exhibition at the MAS | Museum aan de stroom about the pilgrimage to holy places, while concurrently offering at the Heritage Library Hendrik Conscience a view of the form, content, usage and study of the Tanach (the Old Testament as used by Jews), the Bible and the Koran. An ambitious project supported by several heritage associations and by the three communities of faith. 

AMUZ also participates in this expo with a series of lectures on the religions involved, enlivened with music. Further information on the speakers and the musicians will be available later in the AMUZ journal. On Wednesday, January 14 a closing concert will take place with a.o. Patrizia Bovi & Fadia el Hage.

06 November, 2014 20:00 -- AMUZ