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Qui Vive is a Dutch project choir and orchestra of about 50 musicians that travels to France in July at the start of each summer holiday to perform beautiful classical music. The group was founded in 1998 by Ad van Unen and Annemarie de Groot who envisioned France as the ideal place for a group of musical enthusiasts to pitch their tents for a relaxed holiday and a week of musical bliss.

Qui Vive consists of amateurs and a few (semi-) professional musicians and is conducted by Ad van Unen, music teacher and conductor of several choirs in Delft and Breda.

 

Qui Vive 2024 landed for the first time at the campsite La vallée de l’Indre in Montbazon, from July 20 to 28. Concerts were given in Saumur, Cormery and Montbazon.

 

Now we are looking forward to the home concerts:

 

saturday September 7 in Pijnacker, at 4 p.m. in the Dorpskerk (Koningshof 3)
sunday September 8 in Breda, at 4 p.m. in the Antonius Cathedral (Sint Janstraat 8).

 

For 2024, our artistic leadership has once again composed a beautiful program:

 

Title: ‘Triptyque‘

 

HI  Biber                       Litaniae de Sancto Josepho

1644 – 1704                 soloists, choir and orchestra

 

D.Milhaud                     Élégie, op. 170

1892 – 1974                  choir a cappella

 

M. Ravel                      Tombeau de Couperin III and IV

1875 – 1937                 wind instruments

 

M. Bruch                       Kol Nidrei , op. 47

1838 – 1920                 string orchestra

 

C. Shaw                        And the Swallow

1982 –                          choir a cappella

 

GF Handel                   “Utrecht” Te Deum, HWV 278

1685 – 1759                 soloists, choir and orchestra