Alban Wesly @albsn.bsky.social · 23/05/2026NB de gearceerde gemeenten vangen 0 (!) asielzoekers op. Een heldere illustratie van dat we een vooral OPVANGprobleem hebben. 010
Alban Wesly @albsn.bsky.social · 05/04/2026Onthutsend en veelbetekenend. “Gebouwen genoeg: niet bouwen én stoppen met slopen” www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2026/...nrc.nlOpinie | Gebouwen genoeg: niet bouwen én stoppen met slopenWoningmarkt: In Nederland staan voldoende gebouwen voor woningen, maar die worden verkeerd gebruikt, zegt Reinier de Graaf. Bouwen is een verdienmodel, en dat moet anders. 020
Alban Wesly @albsn.bsky.social · 31/03/2026Zo te zien zouden Den Haag en Urk ook wel een herstemming mogen overwegen. #Gorinchem 210
Reposted by Alban WeslyAlistair Barrie @alistairbarrie.com · 06/03/2026Pretty difficult to refute a single thing in this perfect assessment of where the f**k we are, from @iandunt.bsky.social: 452172525399
Alban Wesly @albsn.bsky.social · 06/01/2026Een nieuw jaar, een nieuw initiatief! Zomer 2025 was ik in Japan, een geweldige reis. Ik besefte ook weer hoe raar het is dat vliegen nog steeds nauwelijks belast wordt. Dus... zolang de overheid vliegen niet belast, doe ik het zelf! En ik maakte een site, www.35procent.nl. Dank voor lezen / delen! 010
Reposted by Alban WeslyCalefax — Dutch Reed Quintet @calefax.bsky.social · 16/12/2025New video: Sweelinck! While recording the new album ‘Organisms’ in Haarlem in April this year Calefax also shot three concert videos. This is the third: Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck’s majestic Fantasia Chromatica (1612). Check the complete video here youtu.be/Rf6KTxe2-bE 021
Alban Wesly @albsn.bsky.social · 18/11/2025Meet the Bassoon Class (minus two...) of the Royal Conservatoire The Hague. The majority are Bram van Sambeek 's students, fair to say🙃. Care to be part of this amazing group of people shaping the Future of Bassoon? The conservatoire has an Open Day on Nov. 29th www.koncon.nl/en/openday? #bassoon 011
Reposted by Alban WeslyCalefax — Dutch Reed Quintet @calefax.bsky.social · 25/10/2025✨Video Release! ✨ Here is the beginning of the Preludium in e minor by Nicolaus Bruhns. It is said that we thank this score to Bruhns’s contemporary J.S. Bach. To be heard on our new album ORGANISMS released next month @pentatonemusic.bsky.social ✨🎥✨ Watch the full video here youtu.be/Gb9AV6XOyvEyoutu.beBruhns - Preludium in E minor "Big" - Calefax Reed QuintetYouTube video by Calefax Reed Quintet 042
Alban Wesly @albsn.bsky.social · 24/07/2025Het gezinnetje (nee, niet op de foto…) en ik genieten enorm van Tokyo. Morgen laatste dag…: tips voor Kamakura, Hokkaido, Nagano mountains, Kyoto, Naoshima and (de buurt van) Osaka zijn nog welkom. 🙃✨🙏🏼 PS Ik vlieg (soms) maar betaal daar wel fatsoenlijk ‘belasting’ voor… zie 35procent.nl 111
Reposted by Alban WeslyCalefax — Dutch Reed Quintet @calefax.bsky.social · 12/05/2025Carré — Unforgettable! The sing-along of #KinanAzmeh 's 'Airports' has been the sound track of our project with #RoxaneVanIperen. 🙏 . . #rietkwintet #reedquintet 011
Alban Wesly @albsn.bsky.social · 29/04/2025Een prachtvoorstelling met Roxane van Iperen en Calefax, nog op 9 en 11 mei in Dordrecht (Kunstmin) en Amsterdam — ons debuut in Carré! Van Iperen vertelt indringend, informatief én soms verrassend luchtig over de rol van muziek in tijden van conflict en onderdrukking. calefax.nl/projects/rox... 121
Alban Wesly @albsn.bsky.social · 25/04/2025Zo leuk dat @npoklassiek.nl een hele uitzending van #Diskotabel wil besteden aan één van mijn lievelingswerken: Die Kunst der Fuge. En dat @tinekesteenbrink erbij was✨ Zondag 16.30 👀 detail van ‘Contraprodunctus XIV’ van @pascalmoehlmann www.npoklassiek.nl/programmas/d... 100
Alban Wesly @albsn.bsky.social · 08/04/2025een belediging van het boerenverstand, Van der Plas. Het is geen 1 april meer… 000
Alban Wesly @albsn.bsky.social · 05/04/2025Splendid place for my morning warm-up😻: Carré Amsterdam. Recording a shout out video for the @calefax.bsky.social project with #RoxaneVanIperen calefax.nl/projects/rox... #calefax #bassoon #reedquimtet #tivolivredenburgcalefax.nlRoxane van Iperen in Calefax-land – Calefax 000
Alban Wesly @albsn.bsky.social · 27/03/2025Calefax Composer Competition joins forces with Alba Rosa Viëtor. More awards, bigger audiences, live final! #Calefax #ReedQuintet @akropolis5tet.bsky.social 021
Alban Wesly @albsn.bsky.social · 17/03/2025Partners in crime! Need your help. Next month I will have the honour to chat with @tinekesteenbrink.bsky.social on Dutch national radio about one of my musical passions: JS Bach's 'Art of Fugue'. Many different recordings will be aired — please help me find unknown gems... which is your favourite!? 111
Alban Wesly @albsn.bsky.social · 23/02/2025Day 12 of 12 in USA —Leaving the USA with pain. In shock about the lawlessness of the Chump/Musk story. Have met so many great people, but the state of politics makes me wonder if we’ll ever return — the country has become a 'rogue state' overnight. But... great breakfast at #SwanOysterDepot 020
Alban Wesly @albsn.bsky.social · 23/02/2025Day 11 of 12 in USA BIS —Last concert of the tour: Palo Alto! Challenging acoustics but as always a great, attentive audience. Sweet compliment from an audience member — our outfit inspires her to paint her house in exactly these colours. Suits by aarden.space/ #calefax #joukoosterhof 010
Alban Wesly @albsn.bsky.social · 23/02/2025Day 11 of 12 in USA —Free morning: Almost spring time (!) in the Hayes St oasis. Returning my Timbuk2 bag to the shop where I bought it in 2010. Used it almost daily ever since… replace it for a new one today, with 20% discount for recycling the old bag. Kudos for #timbuk2. 010
Alban Wesly @albsn.bsky.social · 20/02/2025An urgent reminder to buy less stuff. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/14/o...nytimes.comOpinion | The Story You’ve Been Told About Recycling Is a LieThe world’s poorer nations have never stopped being receptacles for the West’s rubbish. 010
Alban Wesly @albsn.bsky.social · 19/02/2025Day 10 of 12 in USA —SF *morning: anti Maga / Musk protests at the Civic Center Plaza. *afternoon: Herbst.., what a gorgeous hall to perform! *eve: so good to meet old friends Kate and Dan. * late: joining them in a Waymo ride. (Now this is an AUTOmobile — finally!) #calefax #herbsttheater #waymo 020
Alban Wesly @albsn.bsky.social · 19/02/2025Day 9 of 12 in USA —returning to Walnut Creek. Such a warm audience! Presenting a mixed European / US program, responding with a heartfelt applause and cheers when asked "because we still love each other, don't we?" 🔥💛 #leshercenter #reedquintet #calefax 030
Reposted by Alban WeslyThe Lincoln Project @lincolnproject.us · 19/02/2025Kamala was right. And it only took him less than 30 days to roll over for Putin. 20806171018705
Alban Wesly @albsn.bsky.social · 17/02/2025USA day 8 of 12. —Long travel day to the West coast. Up 5.30 am to clean the B&B and drive to 2 hrs Boston for the 7hrs flight to SF. Pic 1 the ugliest car in the world without the now popular sticker (Pic 2). Fantastic Vietnamese food at Hoi An 1608 with former CMSF director Daniel Levenstein. 020
Alban Wesly @albsn.bsky.social · 17/02/2025USA day 7 of 12. —Last day at Wesleyan. Working again with the students of Neely Bruce such a great host! (pic 2 with @raafhekkema.bsky.social) Buying some Wesleyan merch for the loved ones at home. (Too bad, the misspell of Wesly 🙈) 020
Alban Wesly @albsn.bsky.social · 16/02/2025USA day 6 of 12. —Concert time! Preceded by a lovely session with some students and locals from the Wesleyan orchestra. Great Connecticut community! All conversations still dominated by the Chump situation. One wonders: how can the USA remain one nation? 030
Alban Wesly @albsn.bsky.social · 16/02/2025USA day 5 of 12. —Great to see how beloved the amazing Neely Bruce is among students and staff @wesleyanuniversity.bsky.social Had a nice session with his composition class. Left on this picture with some of his students. #reedquintet #calefax #wesleyan 010
Alban Wesly @albsn.bsky.social · 14/02/2025New pics! And... in 40 weeks today we'll turn 40. 😀 #calefax #reedquintet #joukoosterhof 050
Alban Wesly @albsn.bsky.social · 13/02/2025USA day 4 of 12. —8 hour road trip from DC to CT for a three day residency @wesleyanuniversity.bsky.social Visiting friends on the way in New Jersey. In the meanwhile the Chump news keeps amazing (or not?)… ‘make America plastic again’ www.dezeen.com/2025/02/11/t... 020
Alban Wesly @albsn.bsky.social · 12/02/2025USA day 3 of 12. —Concert time! A truly dedicated crowd in our National Gallery of Art show (DC). Lovely to see how much they appreciate our rendition of Henriette Bosmans's 'Quartet'. Slightly depressed after talking afterwards to dear musician friends facing the consequences of the Chump madness. 040
Alban Wesly @albsn.bsky.social · 10/02/2025USA day 2 of 12*BIS. — Last tickets for NSO and Thibaudet in the @kennedycenter.bsky.social . A splendid complex of multiple venues and an incredible rich programming. This afternoon's news: president Chump suggest the chair of the board to be replaced by... himself 🙈. The concert was gorgeous. 140
Alban Wesly @albsn.bsky.social · 08/02/2025USA Day 2 of 12. — Washington is surprisingly quiet, even for a Saturday. People holding their breath? Good rehearsal this morning, then time to bike up Capitol Hill and see the Hirshhorn, tonight Thibaudet @kennedycenter.bsky.social Ready for tomorrow’s concert at the National Gallery. #calefax 040
Alban Wesly @albsn.bsky.social · 07/02/2025USA day 1 of 12. — All seems quiet in Washington DC. But talking to lovely folks in the hotel lobby shows fear and despair. “You don’t need to worry sir, because the colour of your skin. But I fear the future for my kids. Education is poor and will be poorer, books will be replaced by social media.” 030
Alban Wesly @albsn.bsky.social · 02/02/2025“Netanyahu on his way to Washington.” An excellent opportunity for the US to show their respect for international law and order. 🙈 www.icc-cpi.int/defendant/ne... 020
Reposted by Alban WeslyGreenpeace Nederland @greenpeace.nl · 22/01/2025EEN BELANGRIJKE OVERWINNING VOOR ONZE NATUUR! De overheid moet meteen aan de slag om de stikstofuitstoot te verminderen in de meest kwetsbare natuur. De rechtbank heeft vastgesteld dat de natuur ernstig is verslechterd en dat de overheid zich aan haar eigen wet moet houden. 44608148
Alban Wesly @albsn.bsky.social · 21/01/2025Hey friends over the pond, I'm feeling you. For your comfort, I'm hopping over with Calefax in two weeks. Hope to see you in DC, Middletown CT or the Bay area. #bassoon #reedquintet 050
Alban Wesly @albsn.bsky.social · 11/01/2025This is my first… and might well be my last post — I’m here merely to follow others. And to see how things evolve in big tech. *Can we make a change?* Today there are almost 27M users. Here is a site that shows in near real time the growth of the platform: bcounter.nat.vg 090
