Swedish American Line
Photo: Markus Gårder
Fredrik Malmberg
About the concert
På svenskaA tribute to the cultural exchange between Sweden and the US, with the Eric Ericson Chamber Choir.
Swedish American Line offered ocean liner service for the route Gothenburg-–New York from 1915 and six decades on, with interruptions during the second world war.
In a broad and varied programme, the Eric Ericson Chamber Choir is the intermediary of musical ties between Sweden and the US – if not direct so in a spiritual sense, with Swedish and American music mainly from our present time. Among these Ingvar Lidholm’s (1921–2017) Five Haiku Poems, newly discovered and premiered a couple of days before this concert, and Swedish-American Daniel Nelson’s The New Colossus, also premiered recently.
The Eric Ericson Chamber Choir was founded in 1945 by Eric Ericson, and since then it has taken a central role in the Swedish and international music scenes. The Eric Ericson Chamber Choir and Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra have enjoyed a close partnership since 2003.
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The music
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Samuel Barber Reincarnations for chorus a cappella9 min
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Djuro Zivkovic Musica psalterii gloriosi from Lyria Laudis for chorus a cappella7 min
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Shara Nova Urgency from Carols After a Plague for chorus a cappella4 min
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Eric Whitacre i will wade out from Three Songs of Faith for chorus a cappella3 min
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Eric Whitacre hope, faith, life, love from Three Songs of Faith for chorus a cappella4 min
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Ingvar Lidholm Five Haiku Poems for chorus a cappella6 min
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Intermission25 min
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Kristin Warfvinge Une charogne for chorus a cappella7 min
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Pauline Oliveros Sound Patterns for chorus a cappella4 min
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Morton Feldman Christian Wolff in Cambridge for chorus a cappella4 min
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Sten Hanson The New York Lament5 min
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David Lang if i am silent for chorus a cappella8 min
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Daniel Nelson The New Colussus for chorus a cappella5 min
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Encore:
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Trad Deep River, version for chorus a cappella arr Henry Burleigh3 min
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Participants
- Eric Ericson Chamber Choir
- Fredrik Malmberg conductor
- Maria Erlanson mezzo-soprano
- Olof Akre bass