Open air concert
Ekebergparken/Vannspeilet
19/9, 14.00
150/250 NOK
(Bring something to sit on)
(The concert area is open for the audience from 13.30)
Oslo Brass Band
David Morton – conductor
Birch trumpet players: Gry Aubert Bang, Jørn Simenstad, Nora Hannisdal, Sofie Kolve Haukås, Karin Johansson
Mads Kjeldgaard – sound
Wolfgang Plagge: preLURium (2020, WP)
Ruth Anderson: Points (1974)
Ruth Anderson: So What (1971)
George Lewis: Kulokker (2020, WP version for brass band)
Two world premieres and two Norwegian premieres surround the water mirror above James Turrell’s Skyspace installation. Norwegian composer Wolfgang Plagge opens the concert with preLURium, for a set of traditional birch trumpets carved from tree trunks of Norway’s forests.
Pioneering electronic composer Ruth Anderson (US) is presented in Norway for the first time. She developed her playful approach to electronic composition and tape manipulation at Columbia-Princeton Electronic Music Studio, and later founded The Electronic Music Studio in New York, one of the first electronic music studios established by a woman.
In his new piece for Oslo Brass Band, Anderson’s former colleague, US composer George Lewis, takes inspiration from the ancient method of ‘cow-calling’ (kulokking in Norwegian). Rather than direct imitation, Lewis’s instrumentation transforms old memories into sound. Here he also draws upon his earlier work as an improvising trombonist which, according to the composer, frequently involved sounds reminiscent of mooing cattle.
Produced by nyMusikk.
Kulokker is commissioned by nyMusikk in collaboration with Borealis
(Photo: Emily Peragine)
