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richard barrett
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« Reply #15 on: 13:11:27, 23-08-2008 »
Let thy smalls be untwisted, Mr Now. I was a bit surprised that you would single out the Nederlands Kamerkoor for attention1 given the massacre that's going on across the entire sector in Holland. Now you point out that you have a personal interest in this particular case it makes more sense.
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« Reply #16 on: 15:06:04, 23-08-2008 »
Quote from: richard barrett on 18:25:37, 22-08-2008
Stichting Huygens-Fokker

Sad, so very sad... Sad

I wonder what they're going to do with the archives of this organisation. I don't read anything about it in the commission's report.

[I see that this thread is still in the 20th century music section Roll Eyes ]
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« Reply #17 on: 15:13:03, 23-08-2008 »
Quote from: pim_derks on 15:06:04, 23-08-2008
I wonder what they're going to do with the archives of this organisation. I don't read anything about it in the commission's report.

I would imagine they will try to struggle on without the government grant. I know that is what STEIM is intending to do, if the worst happens, but then STEIM can raise funds by selling its soft- and hardware at market prices (which would go against everything Michel struggled for over the years). Taking a wider view, these cuts put the funding for musical activities in Holland at the same pathetic level as in most other countries, and people do find a way elsewhere to go on.
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« Reply #18 on: 15:29:36, 23-08-2008 »
Nobody cares for Christiaan Huygens anymore. First the European Committee wants to outlaw the use of mercury in barometers and now this. It's all so depressing. Sad
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« Reply #19 on: 16:04:45, 23-08-2008 »
Would contributors to this thread prefer that it be moved to the 'News' board as suggested by Pim, or that it remain here?

Thoughts anyone?

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« Reply #20 on: 22:05:13, 23-08-2008 »
Quote from: pim_derks on 15:29:36, 23-08-2008
the European Committee wants to outlaw the use of mercury in barometers
Barometers or thermometers?

Or both???
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« Reply #21 on: 22:14:09, 23-08-2008 »
Quote from: time_is_now on 22:05:13, 23-08-2008
Quote from: pim_derks on 15:29:36, 23-08-2008
the European Committee wants to outlaw the use of mercury in barometers
Barometers or thermometers?

Or both???

Barometers:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/6725161.stm

The Directive is aimed at stopping sales of mercury, not at barometers per se.
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« Reply #22 on: 16:44:27, 24-08-2008 »
And it's not just barometers they're after:

http://www.thelocal.de/13557/20080807/

Sad
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