Youtube Top 15 • Agua Azul • @1MEMO 20251023

#13 Most Viewed Today Musicians on YouTube featuring Duo Agua Azul

I joined YouTube with Channel012 on June 20, 2007 , soon after YouTube was purchased by Google late 2006 . My first public video was uploaded Dec 30, 2007 : ‘Fire Breather’.

The 2nd video was a high quality video : “Tiroler Fasnacht 2008 in Igls”. Traditional carnival in the streets in Austria. This was uploaded May 7, 2008.

Some days later I was contacted by Maybelline — a friend from the early 1970s when we both studied biology at Leiden University in Holland, with whom I had not had any contact since — who was wondering whether it was me ‘the Michel of the biology study, after I had left a comment signed ‘Michel’ at her YouTube channel (@maybellinebroek) with music videos.

I learned she had just started the duo Agua Azul together with pianist Thijmen Vonk, with already about 16 performances lined up, one just completed , and an upcoming talent show in theater Agnietenhof in Tiel, Holland, next Friday 16 May, 2008.
Just in time, the afternoon before that talent show, we agreed I’d film the show, and a few hours before the performance, I received the stage setup. Unfortunately, I was late for the opening number… and then filming… and same night editing. Next day rushes were checked, and the evening of May 19 the uploads of 4 of the songs at Maybelline’s channel succeeded — just in time for a screening the next morning for an important venue, to determine if they want to book Agua Azul in Cultuurhuis Doorn…which they did.

Maybelline’s YouTube channel ranked #13 Most Viewed Today Musicians in the Netherlands within the first two days after uploading our Agua Azul videos.
Channel ranking was #58 in Most Viewed (This Week) Musicians in the Netherlands – a week after uploading (20080526).

Notes

More recently, I uploaded remastered editions of those videos , and added a new video too, a video of the interview with Agua Azul on that “Open Podium” in the Agnietenhof Theatre in Tiel , Holland on Friday 16 May, 2008.

Start Agua Azul ~ Holland • @1MEMO 20180523 • Interview 10 years ago at the flying start of Maybelline’s Agua Azul with pianist Thijmen Vonk – May 2008 – by Stefka at the “Open Podium” in the “Agnietenhof Theatre” in Tiel , Holland • URL https://youtu.be/Dlqk02QvXu8

Um Dia Novo • Agua Azul • @1MEMO 20211109 • Concert by Agua Azul on May 16, 2008 in Agnietenhof Theatre, Tiel, Netherlands ~ Percussion: Thijmen Vonk ~ Words and Music: Maybelline Broekhuijsen | agua-azul.nl | Text inspired by the story “De Rivier” by Bert Bijl ~ Film : Michel van der Burg | Miracles•Media | Remastered 2nd edition of film first published May 19, 2008 • URL https://youtu.be/W_fpcewYFZY

Reunião • Agua Azul • @1MEMO 20211108 • Concert by Agua Azul on May 16, 2008 in Agnietenhof Theatre, Tiel, Netherlands ~ Piano: Thijmen Vonk ~ Words and Music: Maybelline Broekhuijsen | agua-azul.nl ~ Film : Michel van der Burg | Miracles•Media | Remastered 2nd edition of film first published May 19, 2008 • URL https://youtu.be/_XU0OgDN4Nw

Journey • Thijmen Vonk • @1MEMO 20211107 • Thijmen Vonk – the Dutch Piano Wizard – plays (and improvises on) his own composition ‘Journey’ at the Agua Azul concert May 16, 2008 in Agnietenhof Theatre, Tiel, Netherlands | agua-azul.nl ~ Film : Michel van der Burg | Miracles•Media | Remastered 2nd edition of film first published May 19, 2008 • https://youtu.be/j5Gb6fzKePs

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Channel012 has been renamed Michel van der Burg | Miracles•Media

Both usernames and links work :
@channel012
@michelvanderburg
https://www.youtube.com/channel012
https://www.youtube.com/michelvanderburg

Agua Azul is screening via channel @AguaAzulHolland

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YouTube # 67 Most Viewed Directors Netherlands • Michel van der Burg • @1MEMO 20251022

Djembe video attracks a lot of visitors

Saturday, July 12, 2008

Tonight YouTube ranked “Channel012” as the “# 67 – Most viewed – Directors – Netherlands” channel. Thanks to the many visitors watching the Djembe-Fote video over the last day — great! Watch the video at this blog’s entry on July 9. Or just click here. https://youtu.be/FGub8rXtg2U

Notes

Djembe-Fote • @1MEMO 20080710

Video (10 min) was uploaded 2 days earlier , Jul 10, 2008 .
“Djembé-Foté” performance on May 16, 2008 at the “Open Podium” in the “Agnietenhof Theatre” in Tiel (Netherlands). URL https://youtu.be/FGub8rXtg2U

The actual performance was 17 min. However 10 min was the max for YouTube uploads in 2008.

May 16, 2017 I uploaded de full film :

Djembé Foté ~ Full Film , Holland 2008 • @1MEMO 20170516 •

URL https://youtu.be/2wCqZ_hYDRM

Channel012 has been renamed Michel van der Burg | Miracles•Media

Both usernames and links work :
@channel012
@michelvanderburg
https://www.youtube.com/channel012
https://www.youtube.com/michelvanderburg

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Berceuse | Yves Darriet | Susanne Marie Wrage | Radio SRF 2 Kultur | 20230911

Lullaby by Yves Darriet

(Translation Miracles•Media)

From the old forest
They dragged the night,
And the wind danced in your hair.

Your fingers die in the evening,
Already in your sky
the stars wander.

From “Far-away-from-love”
they dragged the night.

My shadow dances in your dream.

Yves Darriet (Pseudonym Jean Roland)

Berceuse by Yves Darriet , from Anthologie des poèmes de Buchenwald , collected by André Verdet in Buchenwald (Ref 1), in a 2013 German translation by Wulf Kirsten and Annette Seemann : Wiegenlied (Ref 2).

Wiegenlied – Reading by Susanne Marie Wrage — an actor with a background in Documentary theater – in the June 2013 Passage – Lyrik aktuell broadcast by Radio SRF 2 Kultur (Ref 3, 4) .

Berceuse

De la vieille forêt
Ils ont portè la nuit,
Et le vent a dansé dans tes cheveux.

Tes doigts meurent au soir,
Dans ton ciel déjà
Les ètoiles cheminent.

De plus loin que l’amour
Ils ont porté la nuit.

Mon ombre danse dans ton rêve.

Wiegenlied

Aus dem alten Wald
Schleppten sie die Nacht her,
Und der Wind tanzte in deinem Haar.

Deine Finger sterben am Abend,
Schon in deinem Himmel
Wandern die Sterne.

Von «Weit-weg-von-der-Liebe»
Schleppten sie die Nacht her.

Mein Schatten tanzt in deinem Traum.

REFS

1. Anthologie des poèmes de Buchenwald by André Verdet (R. Laffont) 1946

2. Wulf Kirsten und Annette Seemann, Hrsg. und Übers., Der gefesselte Wald: Gedichte aus Buchenwald, Französisch-Deutsche Ausgabe, Mainzer Reihe N.F. 11 (Göttingen: Wallstein Verlag 2013).

3. Passage 5.6.2013 . Lyrik aktuell . Radio SRF 2 Kultur . URL https://www.srf.ch/static/radio/modules/data/attachments/2013/130605_passage_lyrik.pdf

4. Lyrik aktuell – Moderation: Felix Schneider. Reading by Susanne Marie Wrage (actor with background in Documentary theater). Radio SRF 2 Kultur. URL https://www.srf.ch/audio/passage/lyrik-aktuell?id=10267793#autoplay

TAGS #Berceuse #Wiegenlied #poetry #Documentary #theater #Jean #Roland #Rhythmus #Yves #Darriet #André #Verdet #resistance #art #documentary #theater #film #Buchenwald #Susanne #Marie #Wrage #radio #SRF #Passage #Lyrik #Wulf #Kirsten #Annette #Seemann #holocaust #camp #survivor #1Memo #MiraclesMedia #michelvanderburg

Rhythmus Jazz Buchenwald | 20230910

Rhythmus was a jazz orchestra in the Buchenwald concentration camp in which a total of 23 musicians from 9 different countries played together from 1943 until the liberation.
Czech prisoners around Jiří Žák took the initiative to found this orchestra in the summer of 1943.

Among the French prisoners that later joined, were Yves Darriet – the bandleader , who wrote most arrangements , and Robert Widerman – the band’s singer , who made a career as Robert Clary on Broadway after the war.

Two programs are known to have been performed in November 1944 and April 19, 1945, i.e. 8 days after the liberation of the camp (Ref 1) , including compositions by Duke Ellington, Lionel Hampton and pieces by Cole Porter, Fats Waller, Glenn Miller and Louis Armstrong. In The Mood was performed even though this music was banned in Nazi Germany.

Ref. 3 – Jazz im KZ Buchenwald – das gab es wirrklich! | weimarer-rendezvous | Sep 25, 2022 https://youtu.be/HX4X7TJ19nQ

„Rhythmus“ – Jazz im Konzentrationslager Buchenwald

At the April 11, 2022 event ‘„Rhythmus“ – Jazz im Konzentrationslager Buchenwald’ — in the Notenbank in Weimar, Germany (Ref 2, 3) — the Big Band and a jazz ensemble of the Hochschule für Musik under the direction of Prof. Gero Schmidt-Oberländer performed 9 or 10 pieces from the programs. In addition biographies of the prisoners in the Buchenwald Jazz Orchestra were made visible using excerpts from their letters and reports.

Ref. 4 – Rhythmus | From Buchenwald to Hollywood, The Robert Clary Story | 20230910 | weimarer-rendezvous | Michel van der Burg | URL https://youtube.com/clip/Ugkxqc0jZDzWciMjfefJ0IbMLsnAeaW0Do4U

The French singer Robert Widerman ( Robert Clary ) was shown in a clip (Ref 4) from the documentary film From Buchenwald to Hollywood, The Robert Clary Story (Ref 5).
Robert Clary (March 1, 1926 – Nov 16, 2022) survived thanks to several prisoners, including Yves Darriet (pseudonym Jan Rolan, Jean Roland), Claude Francis-Boeuf, and Jiří Žák. (Ref 6)

Ref. 6 – Rhythmus | Robert Clary saved by Yves Darriet, Claude Francis-Boeuf, Jiří Žák in Buchenwald | 20230910 | weimarer-rendezvous | Michel van der Burg | URL https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxXvk60NXXvjBEkctI0vzWGrTU9aojucac

REFS

1. Rhythmus | 20221117 | Miracles.Media | URL https://michelvanderburg.com/2022/11/17/rhythmus-20221117/

2. „Rhythmus“ – Jazz im Konzentrationslager Buchenwald | 11 April 2022 | Event by the Weimar festival Rendez-vous with History and the Institut Français in cooperation with the Buchenwald Memorial and the Franz Liszt University of Music in Weimar. | URL https://www.institutfrancais.de/fr/thueringen/event/rhythmus-lorchestre-de-jazz-au-camp-de-concentration-de-buchenwald-20279#/

3. Jazz im KZ Buchenwald – das gab es wirrklich! | weimarer-rendezvous | Sep 25, 2022 | URL https://youtu.be/HX4X7TJ19nQ

5. From Buchenwald to Hollywood, The Robert Clary Story by Karen and Richard Bloom and Michel van der Burg | 2023 Edition | 20230202 | URL https://youtu.be/0tKc5T-Sw-E

Citation : Rhythmus Jazz Buchenwald | 20230910 | Miracles.Media

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Cinema Night | 20230515

Century of cinema , 100 films, 100 directors – memorial which honours Joseph Plateau, one of the first people to demonstrate the illusion of a moving image with his phenakistiscope . Work of art by Patrick Rimoux (1996) on the occasion of the first centenary of producing films. Corner of Rue Joseph Plateau near the Church of Saint Catherine in Brussels, Belgium. Filmed April 17, 2023.
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Live Meetup Brussels | 20230512

After starting working together online from 2014 on the documentary Viviane’s Story (see e-book on Miracles.Media) now a live meetup in Brussels with Viviane, April 17th 2023, near the Church of Saint Catherine, for several commemoration events on Transport XX to Auschwitz, the deportation train leaving Mechelen 80 years ago, the unique attack, other resistance acts, the rescue, and escapes of over 200 people jumping from that deportation train in the night of April 19th-20th in 1943 – including Isabella Weinreb, pregnant 3 months with Viviane , who was born 6 months later.
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Tags #meeting #meetup #commemoration #Mechelen #Viviane #Story #Castegnier #Yarom #Isabella #Weinreb #church #Saint #Catherine #rescue #escape #resistance #deportation #attack #TransportXX #Transport #XX #Auschwitz #20th #convoy #train #Holocaust #Jew #Roma #nazi #partisan #Kazerne #Dossin #Belgium #Brussels #Malines #Mechelen #ww2 #exhibition #Jo #Struyven #Daniel #Weyssow #Landescapes #Foundation #Jewish #Museum #1Memo #MiraclesMedia #michelvanderburg

Jim Kaliski Transport XX | 20230426

Eight drawings by Jim (Haïm) Kaliski, 1995-1999, indian ink on paper. Filmed April 19, 2023 in the Jewish Museum of Belgium, in Brussels, at the exhibition ‘236 – Land(es)capes from the 20th convoy’. 1) Pogrom Antwerp, 14 April 1941
2) The Summons for Mechelen “The Trap”
3) Mechelen Waiting Room of Death , 1942-1944
4) The Time of Darkness, 1942-1944
5) Razzia Rue Bara , Anderlecht (Brussels), 3 Sep 1942
6) Attack 20th Convoy, 19 April 1943
7) At the road ‘Chaussée d’Etterbeek’ (Brussels), Feb. 1944
8) Haïm from Etterbeek, Mar 1944
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