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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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