Reviews
NRC Handelsblad, Jochem Valkenburg, December 28, 2010
Playing on PVC pipes as if they were little panflutes. "Hey, beautiful music!", shouts a girl in the hall when the five in overall dresses factoryworkers make a great discovery on stage. It turns out that they can play on the pvc pipes which they work with as panflutes, each one or two notes, but all combined a complete piece of music. It is one of the many enchanting moments in this merry music performance The Musicfactory by Calefax Reed Quintet. In the beginning diligently and in a tight rhythm the five built crazy tubeconstruction. Along the way they discover the music, at first while improvising on tools and materials, later on their real instruments.
The children's performance for children from six is perfectly drawn up. No word is spoken, but the five musicians turn out to be talented mimes, which in gesture and music can tell a humorous and touching story about social relationships. The saxophonist of the group plays a stubborn dandy, the rest try to tame by playing. Meanwhile, music from Bach to contemporary sounds, which is played equally sparkling as virtuoso. The end is a good example of cultural entrepreneurship: the musicians connect the instruments to a device out of which cd's unroll. For 10 euros each, they sell fast.
De Telegraaf, Frederike Berntsen, December 09, 2010
Beautiful Melodies from PVC pipes. The men discover that sound is hidden in such a tube out of plastic and prove they can make wonderful music with it.
Dressed in tasteful costumes of musical notes they steal the show and play works by Bach and Prokofiev. The slow motion scene is brilliant and the little skirmishes of the readplayers about who plays the most beautiful are strongly staged. After this performance one's hands itches to tinker a musical instrument at home oneself.
Pre-publicity
De Volkskrant, Frederike Berntsen, May 27, 2010
The theatrical aspects of the music come to the fore.
Annechien Koerselman signs for the script and the stage direction. The music matches to what you see, tells a story. After a dispute one hears harmony arising. [...] And during the dressing up scene it is all about who is the fastest. This kind of jokes makes that one hears the notes of whatever composer in a completely different way.
