Festival of Flanders Mechelen

EDDY MARIËN

A Carillon in the Garden

When people mention Mechelen, they automatically think of carillons. So the celebrations for 50 years of Flanders Festival in Mechelen wouldn’t be complete without these unusual instruments. City carillon player Eddy Mariën demonstrates the chamber carillon in the pavilion in Sinte-Mette Garden. The pavilion is transparent, which means the instrument can be seen in the garden, effortlessly bringing nature and culture together.

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Matthias Vanden Gheyn probably wrote Preludium 3 for the former city carillon of Mechelen.
Ode an die Freude comes from Beethoven's ninth symphony. The grandparents of this composer lived in Mechelen, in the current Van Beethovenstraat.
The Malinois nickname is Maneblussers, so a reference to the moon should not be missing on this concert. That is why you can hear Clair de lune from Debussy.
The Mechelse city carillonneur, Eddy Mariën, wrote this Chaconne on behalf of the Yale Guild of Carillonneurs.
The Campana Ragtime work is dedicated to Campana, the Mechelse student association of the Royal Carillon School.
The last work, Puppetry, is dedicated to the City of Mechelen and refers to the De Maan puppet theater, which is located under the Mechelse Sint-Rombouts tower.

27.04.2019

Sinte-Mettetuin
Schaalstraat
2800 Mechelen