KORK (Norwegian Radio Orchestra)
Sentralen/Marmorsalen
16 September, 8 pm
Tickets: 250/150 NOK
Therese Birkelund Ulvo Please Don’t Hesitate
Jan Martin Smørdal My Favorite Thing 3 (WP)
Pauline Hall Cirkusbilleder
Arne Nordheim String Quartet op.1, ‘Epitaffio’ (last movement)
Rolf Wallin & Nils Petter Molvær Glacial Speed
Ingar Bergby – conductor
Hasse Hope – master of ceremonies
The second of two events celebrating 100 years of the Norwegian Society of Composers (see 15 September). This lively programme of orchestral works showcases the eclecticism of Norway’s contemporary music and its web of connections from modernism to jazz.
Pauline Hall and Arne Nordheim played hugely influential roles in Norway’s early take-up of contemporary music; Hall when she founded nyMusikk in 1938, and Nordheim as an internationally renowned electronic music composer and populariser of the avant garde. Hall’s orchestral piece Cirkusbilleder (1933) is inspired by the French 20th century music she loved. Nordheim’s early string quartet (1956) is one of his most impassioned works, and its final movement, ‘Epitaffio’, is arranged here for string orchestra.
Jan Martin Smørdal – co-founder of Ensemble neoN – will produce a new instalment of his My Favorite Thing trilogy about music that sparks the imagination of a musician for the first time.
As well as Please Don’t Hesitate, an expansive, welcoming piece by Therese Birkelund Ulvo inspired by Geir Tveitt, the evening will be completed by a sparkling 2011 collaboration between composer Rolf Wallin – himself a former trumpeter with Holy Toy – and jazz trumpeter Nils Petter Molvær.
DJ: Jone El Grande.
TV presenter and comedian Hasse Hope will ensure the whole fiesta goes with a swing. Please don’t hesitate!
In collaboration with KORK and Norsk Komponistforening.
This concert forms part of the 100 year celebration of the NKF (the Norwegian Society of Composers).
