The website was set up in 2006 and provides high-quality images as well as information on the works. The subsidy will run until 2013, when it may be renewed.

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The Contius Foundation has been granted planning permission to install an organ in the Sint-Michielskerk in Leuven, seven years after the project was first announced. The organ will be constructed according to the principles of Christoph Contius (1676-1722), the preferred organ-builder of JS Bach. The foundation raised the funds for its original project – to install the organ in the Sint-Pieterskerk – but came up against numerous administrative obstacles. In the end, they were able to place the organ – with 3,000 pipes weighing a total of 16 tonnes – in another church in the city.

Michel Morvan, drummer with the folk-roots band Urban Trad, was last week found dead in his Brussels apartment. Urban Trad came in second in the 2003 Eurovision Song Contest, with the first song in the contest’s history sung in an invented language. Morvan, 45, died of a heart attack, the band’s manager said, after suffering heart problems for more than a year. He was also active in jazz trio Mirages and fusion project O.O.P.S.

Concert promoter Live Entertainment has obtained an extension of the legal agreement that allows it to carry on operating, after parent company The Entertainment Group went broke. Live Entertainment is responsible for next month’s Marktrock in Leuven, as well as the TV show Vlaanderen Muziekland. The company was faced with unexpected debts when the Dutch parent, run by singing star Marco Borsato, went bankrupt last year.

The Antwerp Fine Arts Museum has launched a new website featuring a 3D tour of the Rubens Hall, a catalogue of over 4,500 artworks and an events calendar, just before the institution closes for renovation. The virtual tour of the Rubens Hall requires downloading a software package for viewing online and is also available in an application for iPad, iPhone and iPod Touch.

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