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FOR SALE: MOVIE: The brand new CD by Foundation Musick s Monument entitled Saskia Uylenburgh Rembrandt Gedenckclanck is now available Rembrandt and Saskia carry you to the turbulent times of the 17th century, an era of religious conflicts, deep social divisions, intense poverty and enormous wealth, repression, slavetrade, desire for freedom and journeys of discovery, during which the welltodo citizenry, who had the time and the money to engage in art and music, gathered at fixed dates throughout the year, to dance, to sing, to play, to converse, and to arrange marriages. It was the kind of environment Saskia Uylenburgh, a Frisian mayor s daughter, grew up in. Her father, the jurist Rombertus Uylenburgh, got his doctorate in the Calvinistical Heidelberg. As a Protestant he rapidly progressed up the political career ladder and eventually he even rose to a position in the States General. In all likelihood, as i