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NEWSLETTER 2·2004<br />

<strong>Paula</strong> <strong>af</strong> <strong>Malmborg</strong> W<strong>ard</strong><br />

on ‘ÄRRET’<br />

Preferably a little whacky<br />

humour, leaning, if at all<br />

possible, tow<strong>ard</strong>s the surreal.<br />

<strong>Paula</strong> <strong>af</strong> <strong>Malmborg</strong><br />

W<strong>ard</strong> has nothing against<br />

turning to the weird and<br />

wonderful in her musical<br />

depiction of the world. On<br />

the contrary.<br />

“I feel that it’s often<br />

through the absurd that<br />

you really get to the heart<br />

of something,” she explains.<br />

“In the opera ‘The<br />

Bomb Party’ for instance, I<br />

have the guests stand there<br />

for several minutes wittering<br />

on about how great<br />

everything was, while what<br />

I was really trying to get<br />

across was how little they<br />

actually had to say.” Her<br />

sixth opera, which is receiving<br />

its original première<br />

at the Vadstena<br />

Academy this summer,<br />

gives a lot of elbow room<br />

to the funny and the bizarre.<br />

“Ärret” (“The Scar”<br />

in English) is based on Bulgakov’s<br />

novel “The Heart<br />

of a Dog”.<br />

“It was originally set<br />

designer Marika Feinsilber’s<br />

idea. By the time I<br />

was contacted, in around<br />

1999, librettist Kerstin<br />

Perski and director Nils<br />

Spangenberg had also become<br />

involved.”<br />

The book, written<br />

in the 1920s, tells of<br />

how rejuvenation expert<br />

Professor Gudomlikov<br />

carries out a scientific<br />

experiment in which he takes a<br />

dog from off the streets and<br />

replaces some of its vital organs<br />

with those of a dead human. Instead<br />

of creating something congenial and<br />

well-mannered, the professor ends<br />

up building a monster, a hell-raising,<br />

dog-man abomination. On another<br />

level, explains <strong>af</strong> <strong>Malmborg</strong><br />

W<strong>ard</strong>, the book deals with how<br />

bolshevism represses individualism,<br />

just like how the world intrudes<br />

on the professor, who just<br />

wishes to live his life of <strong>af</strong>fluence in<br />

peace and quiet, free to research undisturbed.<br />

“What we wanted to do was ask<br />

questions about the moral responsibilities<br />

of science, without, of course, giving<br />

any answers. The story is shifted<br />

forw<strong>ard</strong> in time, the “baddy” is economism<br />

and the intruder on the professor’s<br />

life is a kind of wide-boy, a<br />

property shark, keen to make a quick<br />

buck – not a Bolshevik as in the original<br />

tale. The bones of the story are<br />

the same as Bulgakov’s, it’s just been<br />

updated.”<br />

“I also felt it needed a new title.<br />

“The Scar” sums things up nicely –<br />

all disciplines get their scars, time<br />

gets scars, morality gets scars. We<br />

move on, but something of the<br />

trauma remains in the form<br />

of a scar.”<br />

A hint of the<br />

Russian has<br />

also flavoured<br />

the music in<br />

places, although<br />

admittedly her<br />

plans to use a<br />

bass domra (a<br />

kind of stringed instrument)<br />

had to be<br />

shelved. Meanwhile the incorporation<br />

of the tune “Brightly shines the moon”<br />

into the opera has its own little explanation:<br />

“The book tells of how the dogman’s<br />

implanted human organs come<br />

from a restaurant musician, who liked<br />

to play this particular<br />

tune. Although this<br />

isn’t mentioned in<br />

the opera, the melody’s<br />

still there,<br />

though perhaps<br />

mainly for our own<br />

smug amusement!”<br />

What was it about<br />

the story that first<br />

caught your attention?<br />

VISIT OUR WEB SITE – www.mic.stim.se<br />

Photo: Ewa K. Andinsson<br />

“It suits my temperament.There’s a<br />

lot that happens, the people are a bit<br />

nutty, a little obsessed in some way, all<br />

Continued on page 3 ➤<br />

• New acquisitions _____________________ 2<br />

• Obituary - Jan Carlstedt<br />

• First performances ___________________ 3<br />

• What’s on: ___________________________ 3<br />

• Swedish Jazz on tour in Canada<br />

• Three Opera Premières<br />

• The Kalv Festival<br />

• Warsaw Autumn<br />

• ISCM - World Music Days 2004<br />

• Nordic Music Days 2004<br />

• Music aw<strong>ard</strong>s: ________________________ 4<br />

• From-Sweden.com<br />

• New releases on Phono Suecia<br />

• <strong>Svensk</strong> Jazz 2003


NEW ACQUISITIONS<br />

This is a list of works recently deposited at the Swedish<br />

MIC. Further details are to be found on ww.mic.stim.se.<br />

Copies of the works are obtainable from the Swedish MIC<br />

at SEK 6.80 (minimum price SEK 50)<br />

Keybo<strong>ard</strong><br />

EYSER, EBERHARD<br />

(1932)<br />

Lumaris : 3 pièces faciles<br />

pour le piano pour enfants<br />

(2004) pf<br />

Rumorli : 6 pièces faciles<br />

pour le piano pour enfants<br />

(2004) pf<br />

GULGOWSKI, WLODEK<br />

(1944)<br />

13 works for piano (1997-<br />

2002) pf<br />

HEDWALL, LENNART<br />

(1932)<br />

Fantasia pastorale (2003)<br />

org<br />

LINDSTEN, RUNE (1932)<br />

Marcia e Fantasia (2004)<br />

org<br />

Svit (1998) org<br />

Trumpet voluntary (2003)<br />

org<br />

SANDBERG, LARS (1955)<br />

Fem rum (2002) org<br />

SVENSSON, MARTIN<br />

(1978)<br />

Fugue, and then some<br />

(2003) cemb<br />

VARELA, VICTOR (1955)<br />

Otoño-occidente (1995) pf<br />

Strings<br />

KOHLRUSCH,ARAM<br />

(1922-90)<br />

Serenad, vl<br />

Quintette à cordes op.3:2<br />

(1972) 2vl, vla, 2vlc<br />

LARSSON, HÅKAN<br />

(1959)<br />

Stråkkvartett nr 3 (2003)<br />

string quartet<br />

LINDROTH, PETER<br />

(1950)<br />

Cello music 1 (2003) vlc<br />

SANDBERG, LARS (1955)<br />

Två kanon (1991) 4vl<br />

SCHNELZER,ALBERT<br />

(1972)<br />

Apollonian dances (2003)<br />

vl & pf<br />

WILLERT, MARTIN (1974)<br />

Love song (2002) vla<br />

Love song (2002) vl<br />

Winds<br />

EYSER, EBERHARD<br />

(1932)<br />

Flux (2000) cb-cl<br />

Hymnus inno anthem<br />

(2004) sax quartet<br />

Schattenspiel (2003)<br />

cb-cl & pf<br />

Speculi (1988)<br />

cl/a-sax & cb-cl<br />

LINDGREN, STEFAN<br />

(1960)<br />

Duo (2002) cl & pf<br />

MARTINSSON, ROLF<br />

(1956)<br />

Flames op.63 (2003)<br />

fl, cl, cor, fag<br />

SVENSSON, MARTIN<br />

(1978)<br />

Escape (2002-03) fl<br />

SWÄRD, DAVID (1958)<br />

Windstep (2002) trb<br />

WILLERT, MARTIN (1974)<br />

Hallucination solo (2003) cl<br />

Plucked<br />

instruments<br />

ERIKSSON, ANNA (1963)<br />

Stjärnskruvmejsel för gitarrduo<br />

(2002) 2git<br />

Stjärnskruvmejsel för gitarrsolo<br />

(2002) git<br />

Ensemble<br />

CHINI, ANDRÉ (1945)<br />

Silent notes for Madrid<br />

(2004) fl & git<br />

EDÉN, MATS (1957)<br />

Shame on you (2003)<br />

2tr, trb, tu, 2perc, pf<br />

FREDRIKSSON,<br />

LENNART (1952)<br />

Short serenade (1998)<br />

ob/cl, vl, cb<br />

LEVITT, VLADIMIR<br />

(1934)<br />

Composition for oboe and<br />

string quartet (2003)<br />

ob & string quartet<br />

LUNDIN, DAG (1943)<br />

Intima kammarröster : svit<br />

(2003) vl, vlc & pf<br />

MARTINSSON, ROLF<br />

(1956)<br />

Twins op.64 (2003)<br />

git & vlc<br />

SANDBERG, LARS (1955)<br />

Landskap med ruiner<br />

(2002) vl & 4perc<br />

SCHNELZER,ALBERT<br />

(1972)<br />

Predatory dances (2003)<br />

vl, vlc, pf<br />

WESTMAN, LENNART<br />

(1953)<br />

Dialogo in tre (2003)<br />

2vl & git<br />

Orchestra<br />

ANDERSSON,<br />

MAGNUS F (1953)<br />

Symphony no.1 : Road symphony<br />

(1989-2001)<br />

-- 3*34*3* 4331 03 2 str<br />

EK, HANS (1964)<br />

Dreams and sad fountains<br />

(2003) -- 2*11*1 2211 02 1<br />

str, pf/cel<br />

ENGLUND, AXEL (1979)<br />

Miserere (2002)<br />

recit & orch<br />

-- 2*22*2* 4230 12 0 str, pf<br />

FLODIN, ANDERS (1961)<br />

Col age (2003) string orch<br />

KOZAKURA, HIDEKI<br />

(1970)<br />

Zigzag concerto (2003-04)<br />

-- 2*2*22 4330 12 1 str<br />

LINDROTH, PETER<br />

(1950)<br />

Music for sad people (2003)<br />

strings<br />

NAESSÉN, RAY (1950)<br />

I den långa väntans skog nr<br />

10 (2003) string orch<br />

Concertos<br />

JOHANSSON, ROGER<br />

(1968)<br />

Violin concerto (2004)<br />

vl & orch<br />

-- 1022 2000 00 0 str<br />

KOHLRUSCH,ARAM<br />

(1922-90)<br />

Violinkonzert<br />

-- 2222 4330 10 0 str<br />

OLOFSSON, KENT (1962)<br />

Fascia (2002) charango/<br />

electric MIDI-guitar, electronics<br />

& orch - - 4*3*4*3*<br />

4431 03 1 str, cel<br />

SANDBERG, LARS (1955)<br />

Korsade spår (2002) perc<br />

solo(marim/vibra) & ensemble<br />

- - 3cl, 3tr, 3vla<br />

WILLERT, MARTIN (1974)<br />

Hallucination : version A<br />

(2003) cl solo & string orch<br />

Hallucination : version B<br />

(2003) cl solo & orch<br />

-- 2*2*1*1* 2220 01 0 str<br />

Voice<br />

FORSMAN, MIKAEL<br />

(1968)<br />

Tre ordfamningar (2003)<br />

Sopr & perc<br />

HEDWALL, LENNART<br />

(1932)<br />

6 Trakl-Lieder (2003)<br />

voice & pf<br />

HEDÅS, KIM (1965)<br />

Sommar och snö (2003)<br />

Sopr, Mz, Ten, Bar, pf, vlc,<br />

2perc<br />

KOHLRUSCH,ARAM<br />

(1922-1990)<br />

Gesicht in dieser Zeit op.12 :<br />

Quintett (1988)<br />

Alto & String quartet/orch<br />

LARSSON, MARTIN Q<br />

(1968)<br />

Ghost stories (2003)<br />

recit, Mz, 2git, cb, perc<br />

Méditation (2004)<br />

Mz, 2git, cb, perc<br />

MONNAKGOTLA,<br />

TEBOGO (1972)<br />

Li Po under den flygande<br />

spegeln (2004) Bar & orch<br />

-- 2121 2200 02 1 str<br />

SANDBERG, LARS (1955)<br />

Orfeo mobile (2003-04)<br />

Mz & tape<br />

SCHÖNBERG,<br />

STIG GUSTAV (1933)<br />

Messa misura op.180b<br />

(2003) Sopr, Ten, wind band<br />

SIMMERUD, PATRIC<br />

(1963)<br />

Soli (1997) voice, sopr-sax,<br />

tape, live electronics<br />

SKOG,YLVA (1963)<br />

Baudelairesånger (2003)<br />

Sopr/Mz & git<br />

VARELA, VICTOR (1955)<br />

Andromaca (1996)<br />

Mz & ob/cor i<br />

WINTER, TOMAS (1954)<br />

Drottning Christina : dramatisk<br />

scen (2003)<br />

Sopr, fl, pf, vibra, perc<br />

Du gick ut rak : Tre Kerro<br />

Holmberg-sånger : dramatisk<br />

scen (2004) Alto & 3perc<br />

WIRKANDER, YNGVE<br />

(1917)<br />

Var inte rädd för mörkret<br />

(2004) voice & pf<br />

ÖJEBO, PÄR (1940)<br />

Om jag hade ett ord : sex<br />

dikter (2004) recit, voice,<br />

choir & string orch<br />

Choir<br />

BRANDQVIST, HÅKAN<br />

(1940)<br />

Herre, du utrannsakar mig<br />

(2004) mixed choir<br />

Nu lättar mitt gröna moln<br />

(2003) mixed choir & string<br />

quartet<br />

CARLSTEDT, JAN (1926-<br />

2004)<br />

Carol mixed choir<br />

The Irish dancer (2004)<br />

mixed choir<br />

Madrigal mixed choir<br />

GRAHN, ULF (1942)<br />

When daises pied and violets<br />

blue (2004) mixed choir<br />

HEMBERG, ESKIL (1938)<br />

Tre fruntimmer op.121:1<br />

(2004) female choir<br />

JOHNSSON, STEFAN<br />

(1959)<br />

Fem Martinson-sånger<br />

(2004)<br />

mixed choir, tr, pf, cb, batt<br />

KARKOFF, INGVAR<br />

(1958)<br />

Två Lorcapoem (2004)<br />

cl, git & mixed choir<br />

KOHLRUSCH,ARAM<br />

(1922-1990)<br />

Schalom (1988) STB soli,<br />

mixed choir, org, 2fl, vl<br />

LINDROTH, PETER<br />

(1950)<br />

Nootka (2003)<br />

mixed voices & ensemble<br />

-- fl, cl/fl, perc, accord/harmonium,<br />

git/mand, vl, vlc<br />

LÖFBERG, MARIA (1968)<br />

Magnificat anima mea<br />

Sopr/T solo, mixed choir,<br />

2cor, str, cemb<br />

OLOFSSON, OLOV<br />

(1947)<br />

700 dagar : oratorium<br />

(2003) soli, choir, org, wind<br />

band - - 4*24*2 4442 14 0<br />

vibr, 5sax, cb<br />

SVENSSON, MARTIN<br />

(1978)<br />

Drömmen (1998/2001)<br />

mixed choir<br />

Stage music<br />

FLODIN, ANDERS (1961)<br />

Tid efter mörkrets färger : en<br />

skräckopera (2003) Sopr,<br />

2fl, 2cor, 2tr, vla, synth, 2git<br />

JÖNSSON, REINE (1960)<br />

Cecilia och Apkungen<br />

(2003-04) soli & orch<br />

<strong>af</strong> MALMBORG WARD,<br />

PAULA (1962)<br />

Ärret (2004)<br />

11soli & chamber orch<br />

OBITUARY<br />

Jan Carlstedt, born in Orsa in Dalecarlia on 15th<br />

June 1926, a man who for many years had an especially<br />

strong profile in Swedish musical life, with several<br />

significant contributions in the areas of cultural<br />

politics and composers’<br />

rights behind him – died in<br />

Stockholm on March 14th.<br />

He was well-known internationally<br />

primarily for his<br />

chamber music.<br />

He was also the founder<br />

of the contemporary chamber<br />

music society ‘Samtida<br />

<strong>Musik</strong>’.<br />

Meticulous cr<strong>af</strong>tsmanship<br />

and an abundant personal<br />

fantasy made his<br />

work an essential manifestation<br />

of Swedish modernism.<br />

Photo: Moona<br />

2


This is a list of first performances due in the near future.<br />

Visit our website for information on all premières.<br />

June<br />

FIRST PERFORMANCES<br />

2 LARS-ERIK ROSELL<br />

Solrosen och Molnet :<br />

fem sonetter av E.J.<br />

Stagnelius (2002-04)<br />

P: Stockholm, Adolf<br />

Fredriks kyrka. Mikaeli<br />

Chamber Choir/A Eby<br />

4 KJELL PERDER<br />

Alfabeta (2004)<br />

P: Stockholm. Adolf<br />

Fredriks Gosskör/<br />

Ch Holgersson<br />

MATTIAS LYSELL<br />

Rotate and levitate<br />

(2004) P: Stockholm.<br />

KMH:s SO<br />

5 CECILIA FRANKE<br />

Ljuvlig är din boning,<br />

Herre Sebaot! (2003)<br />

Lova Herren, min själ!<br />

(2003)<br />

Magnificat (2003)<br />

O väldiga Treenighet<br />

(2004)<br />

Till ingång (2003)<br />

P: Gävle, Heliga Trefaldighets<br />

kyrka. Choir &<br />

ensemble/J Jönsson<br />

8 STEFAN JOHNSSON<br />

Fem Martinson-sånger<br />

(2004) P: Olofström,<br />

Folkets Hus, Aniarasalen.<br />

Unit, S Johnsson, Tonsättarna/K<br />

Andersson<br />

21 LEILEI TIAN<br />

Xiu II (2004)<br />

P:Arnhem, Holland<br />

(Stravinsky Festival).<br />

Ensemble de Ereprijs<br />

26 RAY NAESSÉN<br />

Fyra sånger av Harry<br />

Martinson (2004)<br />

P: Fridhem, Stallet.<br />

K Stobaeus, L Linna,<br />

P Hallgren<br />

29 ANDERS NILSSON<br />

Lamento - 59°23’N,<br />

21°40’E (2004)<br />

P: Pärnu (David Oistrach<br />

festival). A Jonhäll,<br />

A Kaasik, M Mäkinen<br />

30 KENT OLOFSSON<br />

Reeal beeats (2004)<br />

P: Båstad, Kammarmusikfestivalen.<br />

Peter Wilgotsson<br />

July<br />

4 PAULA <strong>af</strong> MALM-<br />

BORG WARD<br />

Ärret (2004) Opera.<br />

P:Vadstena Old Theatre.<br />

Vadstena Academy<br />

ensemble/D Björkman<br />

7 ULF GRAHN<br />

The fly (2001)<br />

I’m nobody (1979)<br />

P:Washington DC,<br />

National Museum of<br />

Women in Arts.<br />

C Frazier-Neely,<br />

B Dahlman<br />

13 FREDRIK HAGSTEDT<br />

Allegretto för 12 blåsare<br />

(2004)<br />

P:Västervåla kyrka.<br />

Ensemble fr Bergslagen<br />

chamber SO/F Hagstedt<br />

15 DAG LUNDIN<br />

Gavotte (2003)<br />

P: Norrbärke kyrka.<br />

J Björklund, P Östlund<br />

17 YLVA NYBERG<br />

Ut ur historien (2004)<br />

P: Grängesberg, Cassels.<br />

M Keohane, Bergslagen<br />

chamber SO/G Mossop<br />

31 STAFFAN LUNDÉN-<br />

WELDEN<br />

Planeten Opus Opera<br />

(2004) P: Vadstena, Vadstena<br />

Castle.Vadstena<br />

Academy ensemble/<br />

Ch Hörnell<br />

September<br />

19 JOHAN-MAGNUS<br />

SJÖBERG<br />

Tantum ergo (2004)<br />

P: Århus, Denmark<br />

(Nordisk Kirkemusik<br />

Symposium). Les Jolies<br />

WHAT’S ON ?<br />

Swedish jazz on tour in Canada<br />

June and July<br />

The Swedish jazz groups Torbjörn Zetterberg Hot 5 and Ståhls Blå will be touring<br />

in Canada this summer:<br />

Torbjörn Zetterberg Hot 5 (Jonas Kullhammar, s, Alberto Pinton, s, Ludvig Berghe,<br />

p, Torbjörn Zetterberg, b, Daniel Fredriksson, d) - in June: 24th Winnipeg, 26th Calgary<br />

and Edmonton, 27th Saskatoon, 28th and 29th Vancouver.<br />

Ståhls Blå (Joakim Milder, s, Mattias Ståhl, v, Filip Augustson, b, Thomas Strønen,<br />

d) - in June: 24th Winnipeg, 25th Edmonton, 26th Calgary, 27th and 29th Vancouver<br />

in July: 1st Ottawa, and 2nd Toronto.<br />

Opera premières<br />

July 4th<br />

At Vadstena Old Theatre, Vadstena. <strong>Paula</strong> <strong>af</strong> <strong>Malmborg</strong> W<strong>ard</strong>: Ärret. Libretto: Kerstin<br />

Perski <strong>af</strong>ter the Bulgakov novel “The heart of a dog”. Read more on page 1.<br />

July 10th<br />

At the Drottningholm Theatre, Stockholm. Reine Jönsson: Cecilia och Apkungen.<br />

Libretto: Peter Bull-Simonsen.<br />

July 31st<br />

At Vadstena Castle, Vadstena. St<strong>af</strong>fan Lundén-Welden: Planeten Opus Opera.<br />

Libretto: Margot Lande.<br />

The Kalv Festival<br />

August 12th-15th.<br />

A completely new festival for contemporary classical music in Sweden. The idea is<br />

to establish a new meeting-point for composers and musicians and stimulate creation<br />

whilst also reaching out to a new audience for this music. The programme will be<br />

published on the website www.kalvfestival.se together with a summary of the intentions<br />

behind the festival.<br />

Warsaw Autumn<br />

September 17th-25th<br />

A festival with a long history – it was set up for the first time in 1956 – it has always<br />

been an important meeting-point for people in the contemporary classical music<br />

field.<br />

The programme for the 2004 festival has yet to be published but you can get the<br />

latest news via their website www.warsaw-autumn.art.pl. Saturday September 25th<br />

will see a special concert with music proposed by members of IAMIC designed to<br />

make the IAMIC presence at the festival more visible.<br />

ISCM – World Music Days 2004<br />

November 3rd-12th<br />

As mentioned previously the International Society of Contemporary Music (ISCM)<br />

will hold this year’s World Music Days in Switzerland. The festival theme, “Trans-it”,<br />

stands for a decentralised conception which focuses on travelling from place to place,<br />

on travelling together in a “sound train”. Among the works by international composers<br />

chosen to be performed during the festival days will be individual compositions<br />

from the Swedish quintet Britta Byström, Mikael Edlund, Rolf Enström, Jesper<br />

Nordin and S Pat. Simmerud.<br />

For more information visit the web site www.iscm.nl/ind/wmd2004b.htm<br />

Nordic Music Days 2004<br />

November 18th-28th<br />

The Nordic festival for contemporary classical music (initiated in 1888) will, in 2004,<br />

take place not only in Copenhagen, Denmark but also in Malmö and Helsingborg in<br />

Sweden. Some 30 events will be organised across these 10 days. The festival is organized<br />

for the Nordic Council of Composers by the Danish Composers’ Society.<br />

The main purpose of Nordic Music Days 2004 is to demonstrate the various major<br />

aesthetic currents in contemporary Nordic music at a qualitatively high level. The<br />

festival features a wide cross-section of the new music from Denmark, Norway,<br />

Sweden, Finland and Iceland – played by Nordic and other European ensembles.<br />

For further information please go to www.nordicmusicdays.com where you also<br />

find the latest version of the planned programme.<br />

PAULA <strong>af</strong> MALMBORG WARD ...<br />

➤ Continuing from page 1<br />

of them. This makes it easy to pin<br />

down the characters. And this is particularly<br />

true, of course, of the dogman,<br />

who’s a mishmash of expressions<br />

and crazy features with no real identity<br />

or voice.”<br />

“The Scar” has five principal roles<br />

and six choir roles (with students of<br />

Vadstena community college), and is<br />

written for a scant little orchestra of<br />

six musicians. “The Scar” is the second<br />

opera <strong>af</strong> <strong>Malmborg</strong> W<strong>ard</strong> has written<br />

for the Vadstena Academy, the first<br />

being the mini opera “Would you like<br />

a frosty pear” in 2002.<br />

“In that opera the superficial plot<br />

was slow, but the psychological one<br />

was buzzing with action. In “The<br />

Scar”, you’ve got action on all levels.<br />

In both acts, mostly in the second<br />

when the situations and sub-plots<br />

develop, there are also more reflective<br />

moments, something which I think is<br />

necessary for both the drama and the<br />

audience.”<br />

Article by: Tony Lundman, Freelance journalist<br />

and music critic for <strong>Svensk</strong>a Dagbladet<br />

English translation: Neil Betteridge<br />

Ärret (The Scar).Music: <strong>Paula</strong> <strong>af</strong> <strong>Malmborg</strong><br />

W<strong>ard</strong>. Libretto: Kerstin Perski <strong>af</strong>ter the Bulgakov<br />

novel “The Heart of a Dog”. Conductor:<br />

David Björkman. Director: Nils Spangenberg.<br />

Set design: Marika Feinsilber.<br />

Performances at Vadstena Old Theatre from<br />

July 4th to 20th. www.vadstena-akademien.org<br />

VISIT OUR WEB SITE – www.mic.stim.se<br />

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AWARDS<br />

The Swedish Jazz Celebration – which took place late in March<br />

this year – has become the great feast of jazz aw<strong>ard</strong>s in Sweden.<br />

Among the many significant prizes aw<strong>ard</strong>ed during the festival<br />

weekend were:<br />

The Swedish Broadcasting Corporation Aw<strong>ard</strong><br />

‘Jazzkatten’ (“The Jazz Cat”)<br />

Jazz Artist Jonas Kullhammar<br />

Jazz Group E.S.T<br />

Grand Cru Fredrik Ljungkvist<br />

New Artist Ludvig Berghe<br />

The Django d’Or Aw<strong>ard</strong>s<br />

Legend of Jazz Rolf Billberg<br />

Master of Jazz Monica Zetterlund<br />

Contemporary Star of Jazz Jonas Kullhammar<br />

From-Sweden.com<br />

‘‘ From Sweden” is a British-Swedish music festival in London taking<br />

place over a period of 14 months. Begun in April this year the<br />

festival embraces more than 30 concerts and features five orchestras,<br />

a choir, ensembles, soloists, actors, and dancers. In sum it<br />

includes the cream of Swedish and British musicians playing Swedish<br />

and British music.<br />

The anniversary of the signing of the historic treaty of peace<br />

and trade in 1654 by Queen Christina and Oliver Cromwell has<br />

provided the idea behind this ambitious music project in London.<br />

Entitled “From Sweden”, the project’s primary aim is to showcase<br />

Swedish music, with the added dimensions of exploring<br />

deep-rooted links between British and Swedish composers from<br />

the first half of the twentieth century and providing a platform for<br />

collaborative music-making among artists from both countries.<br />

The music of Swedish composers such as Hugo Alfvén, Lars-<br />

Erik Larsson, Gösta Nystroem and Hilding Rosenberg lies at the<br />

heart of the festival; so too does contemporary composition.<br />

Premièred in April 2005 will, for example, be Rolf Martinsson’s<br />

new cello concerto written for the cellist Mats Lidström (who also<br />

is the artistic director of the festival).<br />

For more information visit the festivals web site:<br />

www.from-sweden.com<br />

NEW PUBLICATION<br />

<strong>Svensk</strong> Jazz 2003<br />

The third yearbook book<br />

in the Swedish Jazz series<br />

has now been issued. It<br />

covers jazz events in<br />

Sweden from 2003 as well<br />

as containing articles on<br />

new research in the fields<br />

of jazz music, improvisation,<br />

artists, and new<br />

releases on CD. The book<br />

is in Swedish but most of<br />

the articles will be translated<br />

and published on<br />

www.jazzfact.com, a part of<br />

our web site.<br />

<strong>Svensk</strong> Jazz 2003 / ed: Odd Sneeggen.<br />

Stockholm : STIM/<strong>Svensk</strong> <strong>Musik</strong> 2004. - ISBN 91-85470-93-7<br />

NEW RELEASES ON PHONO SUECIA<br />

OLLE ADOLPHSON<br />

MÄSSA PÅ SVENSKA SPRÅKET/MASS IN SWEDISH<br />

THE STOCKHOLM CATHEDRAL CHOIR<br />

GUSTAF SJÖKVIST, conductor<br />

O<br />

PSCD 161<br />

lle Adolphson’s Mass in<br />

Swedish has enriched the<br />

Swedish mass repertoire both<br />

liturgically and performance<br />

wise. One of our favourite songwriters<br />

has revealed himself to<br />

be a great creator of serious<br />

music. This is perhaps a novelty<br />

to many.<br />

Mass in Swedish is the full<br />

title, composed in the early<br />

eighties, commissioned by a<br />

Danish choir, first performed in<br />

1983. A few years later, Olle<br />

himself led a performance of the many-headed choir at the choral<br />

meeting in Skinnskatteberg.<br />

Recorded on this cd are also a few of Olle Adolphson’s expressive<br />

songs: Nu kommer kvällen/Now the Evening Comes, Majvisa/<br />

May Song, Koral/Chorale, Så rinner tiden bort/Time Runs Away,<br />

Aria, Så går vi bort /So We Pass Away<br />

ENCORES<br />

S TOCKHOLM S AXOPHONE Q UARTET<br />

SVEN WESTERBERG · JÖRGEN PETTERSSON<br />

LEIF KARLBORG · PER HEDLUND<br />

PSCD 146<br />

The members of the Stockholm Saxophone<br />

Quartet have been playing<br />

and performing together for almost<br />

twenty years. They have made a speciality<br />

of chamber music for saxophone<br />

– by composers from at home<br />

and abroad. They also specialise in<br />

advanced electro-acoustic music. The<br />

members of the Quartet have had<br />

over 400 works written for them.<br />

A recurrent feature of their work is<br />

the close collaboration they undertake<br />

with Swedish and foreign composers.<br />

Daniel Nelson Full Throttle • Dror<br />

Feiler Ki • Jonas Bohlin Deep Beeps<br />

Karin Rehnqvist Rädda mig ur dyn /Rescue me from sinking in the mud<br />

Ingvar Karkoff Tzivaeri • Johan Jeverud Piece in Colours of Autumn • Erik<br />

Förare Tre dikter/Three Poems by Eva Runefelt • Arne Mellnäs No Roses for<br />

Madame F Erland von Koch Dans nr 2 /Dance nr 2 • Sten Melin<br />

Källarbacksvariationer/Källarback variations • Sergej Dmitriev Intrada •<br />

Sergej Dmitriev Vikingen kommer/The Vikings are coming • S Pat Simmerud<br />

Soli • Jan W. Morthenson Hymn /Chorale Mats Larsson Gothe Gopak<br />

www.phonosuecia.com<br />

New CDs from Sweden<br />

Take a look at www.swedishmusicshop.com and click on Latest releases<br />

In the Swedish Music Shop<br />

can be found CDs produced<br />

by independent labels<br />

SWEDISHMUSICSHOP<br />

from Sweden as distributed by CDA – recordings which can be difficult<br />

to track down in record stores outside Sweden.<br />

Other web sites with CDs from Sweden:<br />

www.moserobie.com · www.bis.se · www.prophonerecords.se<br />

www.proprius.com · www.flc.se · www.mnw.se/ · www.amigo.se<br />

<strong>Svensk</strong> <strong>Musik</strong> / Swedish Music Information Centre is concerned with the documentation<br />

and the spreading of information on contemporary Swedish music, and is financed by<br />

STIM and the Swedish government. Chief Editor: Roland Sandberg. Editor: Karin Heurling.<br />

Editorial st<strong>af</strong>f: Ann Marie Belfrage, Gust<strong>af</strong> Bergel, Karin Heurling, Jan Kling, Roland Sandberg,<br />

Odd Sneeggen. Distribution: <strong>Svensk</strong> <strong>Musik</strong>, P.O. Box 27327, SE-102 54 Stockholm. Phone:<br />

+46 8 783 88 00. Fax: +468783 95 10. E-mail: swedmic@stim.se Production: MEJ Communications<br />

AB. Graphic design&prepress: Ateljé Hunting Flower AB. ISSN 0283-2526.<br />

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