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After we proudly presented five compositions, written especially for the Van Abbemuseum Choir, at our anniversary concert in 2018, we were allowed to add three new works to this collection on September 21, 2019. Again the Van Abbemuseum commissioned these works, so that they too belong to the museum's collection.

With Jaw with Vocalising, Yael Davids wrote an investigation into singing, guided by the teachings of Moshé Feldenkrais. The jaw makes a prescribed movement while singing, whereby the concentration of the singers must be on the movement and not on the sound.
Jacques van Erven, together with John Thomas, adapted part of William Blake's poem Auguries of Innocense into the four-part Grain of Sand.

Racism plays an important role in Patricia Kaersenhout's work. She based the text of her song Promises from another world on a fantasy she had in her youth to arm herself against racism. The music is by her daughter Bongi Breukers.

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