The Gustaf Sjokvist Chamber Choir from Sweden will perform at the HCM City Opera House on March 2 to celebrate 50 years of diplomatic relations between Sweden and Vietnam (Photo courtesy of HBSO)HCM City (VNS/VNA) - The GustafSjokvist Chamber Choir of Sweden will perform along with Vietnamese artists atthe HCM City Opera House on March 2 to celebrate 50 years of diplomaticrelations between Sweden and Vietnam.
The 33-member choir will open the night with a sequence of Swedish contemporarycompositions.
The highlighted work will be Forkladd Gud (A God Disguised) suitecomposed in 1940 by Swedish composer Lars-Erik Larsson to lyrics by Swedishwriter and poet Hjalmar Gullberg.
The lyrics are from Gullberg’s collection of poems Kärlek i tjugonde seklet (Love in the 20th Century) from 1933, based on a motif from Greek mythologywhere the god Apollo appears as a human for a year to serve as a farm labourerfor King Admetus in the Greek region of Thessaly.
The composition includes parts for solo soprano and solo baritone, featuringEva Casserstedt and Ulf Hedbjörk of the choir.
The narration will be translated into Vietnamese and spoken by theatricaldirector and actor Thai Kim Tung.
The concert will include extracts from the Vietnamese folk suite Dong Chay (TheFlow) composed by Tran Manh Hung.
The work premiered at Giai Dieu Mua Thu (AutumnMelody), a biannual festival in HCM City featuring Vietnamese and internationalclassical artists, in 2013, and was welcomed by local and foreign audiences.
Thenight will end with Ode to Joy from Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony in1824.
The concert will feature the orchestra and chorus from the HCM City BalletSymphony Orchestra and Opera (HBSO).
It will be conducted by Florian Benfer, the choir’s artistic leader since 2018,and Tran Nhat Minh of HBSO.
The Gustav Sjokvist Chamber Choir was founded by Gustav Sjokvist in Stockholmin 1994. Sjokvist died in 2015.
The choir specialises in contemporary music, but will also perform works byBach, Mozart and Brahms.
The concert will begin at 8pm at the Opera House at 7 Lam Son Square inDistrict 1. Tickets are available at the venue and at www.ticketbox.vn.-VNS/VNA
The 33-member choir will open the night with a sequence of Swedish contemporarycompositions.
The highlighted work will be Forkladd Gud (A God Disguised) suitecomposed in 1940 by Swedish composer Lars-Erik Larsson to lyrics by Swedishwriter and poet Hjalmar Gullberg.
The lyrics are from Gullberg’s collection of poems Kärlek i tjugonde seklet (Love in the 20th Century) from 1933, based on a motif from Greek mythologywhere the god Apollo appears as a human for a year to serve as a farm labourerfor King Admetus in the Greek region of Thessaly.
The composition includes parts for solo soprano and solo baritone, featuringEva Casserstedt and Ulf Hedbjörk of the choir.
The narration will be translated into Vietnamese and spoken by theatricaldirector and actor Thai Kim Tung.
The concert will include extracts from the Vietnamese folk suite Dong Chay (TheFlow) composed by Tran Manh Hung.
The work premiered at Giai Dieu Mua Thu (AutumnMelody), a biannual festival in HCM City featuring Vietnamese and internationalclassical artists, in 2013, and was welcomed by local and foreign audiences.
Thenight will end with Ode to Joy from Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony in1824.
The concert will feature the orchestra and chorus from the HCM City BalletSymphony Orchestra and Opera (HBSO).
It will be conducted by Florian Benfer, the choir’s artistic leader since 2018,and Tran Nhat Minh of HBSO.
The Gustav Sjokvist Chamber Choir was founded by Gustav Sjokvist in Stockholmin 1994. Sjokvist died in 2015.
The choir specialises in contemporary music, but will also perform works byBach, Mozart and Brahms.
The concert will begin at 8pm at the Opera House at 7 Lam Son Square inDistrict 1. Tickets are available at the venue and at www.ticketbox.vn.-VNS/VNA
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