Soulmates
Thijs & Dieuwertje received: Ernst Daniel Smith & Jeroen Zijlstra
'Zielsverwanten' is a musical online music program in which theatre-maker/musician Thijs Breasts and presenter Dieuwertje Blok receive 2 musical guests whose souls are related to each other. This kinship is visualised with the help of songs, interviews and film.
The program is integrated into a theatre and is a combination of music, talk show and documentary. Before the recordings take place in the theatre, theatre-maker Thijs Breasts, armed with his camera and his guests, travels to places that have been of great importance to them and which influenced their later formation. With these images and all the personal information he has collected, in addition to existing musical repertoire, new material is composed. On the basis of the film footage and the collected music, Dieuwertje Blok asks the shirt of the body between the songs by the guests.
Episode 1
Faith Dialogue
Ernst Daniel Blacksmith & Jeroen Zijlstra
If you have long left the faith of your youth behind you, it still affects your life path? And why does someone without religious education sometimes like to go to church? Jazz trumpeter and singer Jeroen Zijlstra and baritone Ernst Daniël Smid both have an interesting relationship with the Christian faith that also spans through their personal life and their musical career. Thijs Travelling with both men to churches and other places that the artists have shaped.
Ernst Daniel Smid grew up in a Dutch Reformed family in Enschede but later began to doubt and, according to his own words, still struggles with faith. Much of the classical music he sang had a Christian content. Bach, for example, Blacksmith: “God has been lucky with Bach. No composition contributes to thinking about faith as the Matthew Passion.” Later he preferred to sing opera, had enough of baroque and wanted to sing repertoire with more feeling. Meanwhile he sings a lot of different music. Fascinated by faith and how it affects our lives, he has made programs for the EO about religion in the Netherlands. Ernst Daniel Smid sings in addition to opera in his performances regularly religiously inspired or otherwise spiritually tinted songs and Dutch listeners
Jeroen Zijlstra comes from a strictly secular family from the West-Frisian Opsterland. His grandparents were humanists and communists. His father was head of public school in the village. While many young people stormed out of the church, Zijlstra walked into the church next to his house where an ecumenical centre had come. He sang there in a choir with believing and non-believing people and wrote texts at the request of the organist. At home, he got little hold on to. At the neighbors, in the church, he thought it was. And it stayed that way. He became a fisherman and musician and as a husband of a minister, the non-believer Zijlstra is never far from the church. Jeroen is also a composer and lyricist and won the Annie MG Schmidt Prize in 2007. Religion and the church regularly visit in his songs.
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