Archive 1995 

Fifty years after the Allied liberation, there was little cause for optimism: major conflicts and genocides raged both within and outside of Europe. Against this backdrop, 1995 saw the Holland Festival take Art and Resistance as its theme, programming work like Schönberg’s A Survivor from Warsaw and Kurtág’s Songs of Despair and Sorrow. 

The festival also featured a retrospective on Pina Bausch’s work, but most spectacular was likely the performance of Stockhausen’s Helikopter Streichquartett, in which the members of the Arditti String Quartet were in a helicopter with Stockhausen mixing the sound of the propellers with the music of the four string instruments. 

Het affiche was van de hand van Anthon Beeke, Dick Elffers en Piet Zwart.