This football club is famous for its leadership group - building up an interest for football and its club in a community not so very interested in football from the outset.
Things have changed, see pictures on e.g., this link
Sunday, October 26, 2008
Stabæk is celebrating
Finally Stabæk won "Serien" (the football liga of Norway) and celebrated at Nadderud stadion nearby where we live and where I also went to gymnasium.
Dansens Hus, Oslo
14 October 2008: Visited the new Dansens Hus (house of Dance) in the Vulcan area in Oslo, situated close to Akerselva (*the river dividing Oslo in East and West. Nowadays a growing area for creative industries firms, educational and cultural institutions.)
Dansens Hus seemed very fit for its purpose, the main performance room could include around 350 people - seat rows were steeply built so that everyone should be able to see the dancers well.
The wooden stage floor appeared to be fit for its dancing purpose.
A long bar and nice mingling area is the first thing you meet when entering. It is also a flexible space for meetings and events.
We were also guided outside and updated on the plans for this Vulcan area. A food hall is planned in the old brick building, and near to the Maridalsveien a new hotel (Scandic) as well as new theatre stage are going to be built.
The visit was arranged by our Culture and Media group of Polytechnic Society.
100 years' celebration Geirr Tveitt
Jacob Culture Church in Oslo, 19 October 2008: We celebrated the birthday of the Norwegian composer who renamed himself Geirr Tveitt (from Nils Tveit).
A great evening orchestrated by Lars Klevstrand and his companions together with also Gyri Tveitt, Geirr's daughter.
Wonderful music ... incl. excerpts from Hardingatoner and well-known songs such as "Fløytelåt" and "Vi skal ikke sova bort sumarnatta."
Some "refound" pieces were also performed. (to be filled in..)
I appreciated in particular the highly sensitive piano-playing by Håvard Gimse.
Saturday, October 4, 2008
Melancholia
2.10.2008 Den Norske Opera & Ballett
Interesting performance of an entirely new opera: Melancholia is narrating one day in the life of Lars Hertervig, the talented, enigmatic but highly suffering South-Norwegian painter while he was in Düsseldorf striving with his talents and doubts (Ich kann malen!) and fell in forbidden love with Helene Winckelmann, the step-dauhter in the patriarchal Winckelmann house where he rented a room.
It is performed during the Ultima festival in Snøhætta's white new opera in Oslo.
The libretto by Jon Fosse and music by Georg Friederich Haas, a young Austrian composer. I experienced excellent singers! and triggering new compounded music by Haas.
Interesting performance of an entirely new opera: Melancholia is narrating one day in the life of Lars Hertervig, the talented, enigmatic but highly suffering South-Norwegian painter while he was in Düsseldorf striving with his talents and doubts (Ich kann malen!) and fell in forbidden love with Helene Winckelmann, the step-dauhter in the patriarchal Winckelmann house where he rented a room.
It is performed during the Ultima festival in Snøhætta's white new opera in Oslo.
The libretto by Jon Fosse and music by Georg Friederich Haas, a young Austrian composer. I experienced excellent singers! and triggering new compounded music by Haas.
Geirr Tveitt's Balder's dreams rediscovered!
BALDUR LOST... OR NOT. The Norwegian composer Geirr Tveitt's main work, Baldur's draumar, is literally rising from the ashes (see below). Until recently, this his major work, performed in the University of Oslo's Aula 24. Feb 1938 and also in 1939 in Paris, has been thought lost in fire ... either as stored in his fairytale house in Hardanger (Bjødnabrakane high over the Hardanger fjord) that tragically burnt down many years ago (July 1970) and/or, according to Tveitt himself, the original "Baldur" was also said to have become destroyed in London bombing during WW2 (the first score was sent to London for review to a complete stranger at Covent Garden who Tveitt had got recommended).
SEVERAL VERSIONS - THE ORIGINAL REDISCOVERED. Yet, it recently turned out that two written down versions both are luckily now refound partly accidentally and partly as research and documentary projects. This is triggering news and attracts some interest because 2008 is the very year Norway is celebrating 100 years since the birth of this composer (1908-1981). See a new biography below!
It is amazing to rediscover art works but perhaps not entirely unusual, as vestiges of creation do seem to turn up again, I wonder.
- Thus, in Oslo, Norway, literaly arising from the ashes... half-burnt note-pages were found some years ago, first identified by a music student. It could be recognized and then recreated as Baldur's dreams (in companion with an NRK radio recording from the original live performance and contributions by two composers, incl. the Russian Aleksej Rybnikov, more on this later perhaps!), i.e., significant parts of Tveitt's revised music score have been found in a box, consisting of vestiges of his works from the ashes of the Hardanger house. The box was luckily preserved via Bergen Museum and then moved to the Norway's National Museum archives and reexplored recently by the musician Håvard Gimse and the conductor Ole Kristian Ruud. Ruud and Stavanger Symphony Orchestra performed a recreated version of Baldur's Draumar in May 2002 in Grieghallen during the Bergen Music Festival, an event I happened to experience.
- In London, the complete 1938 original first score has also late 2007 surprisingly been refound in music archives at Covent Garden (it was sent by Geirr Tveitt to Mr. Bruce Ottley, Covent Garden in 1939).
NEW INTEREST. This, and other interesting stuff is outlined both in a recent film documentary by the team of Sondre Hallvardsson Bjørgum (son of the exceptional Hardanger fiddle player Hallvard Bjørgum, I guess) and shown this autumn on NRK, and also in Reidar Storaas' revised biography of Geirr Tveitt, Mellom triumf og tragedie (between triumph and tragedy), a biography, launched in the new Litteraturhuset in Oslo (24 Sept) as well as Bergen last week. I enjoyed the launch in Oslo with the well-prepared biographer and journalist Reidar Storaas (also a friend of Tveitt), the singer and guitar musician Lars Klevstrand (who has performed with Tveitt's music for decades), and the musicolog (I think) August Albertsen. In additon, the Think (electric car) industrial designer and Hardanger/Norheimsund-born Stig Olav Skeie had prepared and presented contributions to a discography.
AN ARTIST'S LIFE AND WORKS. I will read the new biography with interest (only scanned some parts now), but I appreciate that Storaas' new biography expands on Tveitt's artistic works as well as life, part of that is controversial stuff, I guess. However, the fascinating artist who renamed himself Geirr Tveitt (rather than Nils Tveit) still is an enigma, not least after the recent discoveries!
INGEBJØRG GRESVIG. Although many of Tveitt's artistic and life connections are mentioned including his first wife, herself a musician, I still miss more information about what he learned from and came to do in inspirational collaboration with his first wife, Ingebjørg Gresvig. She can be thought of as "the Andsnes" of those days, because she already was a creative, distinguished, and known master of the grand piano when they married. She had performed e.g. for many audiences and notable families in the cultural Berlin. Personally I really appreciate our lively encounters in the neighborhood of Kalfaret, Bergen when she was still alive. We could also fully observe directly how she memorized the notes and played excellently even at a high age. So my thoughts in this Geirr Tveitt year also go to her, thanks for your inspirations!
SEVERAL VERSIONS - THE ORIGINAL REDISCOVERED. Yet, it recently turned out that two written down versions both are luckily now refound partly accidentally and partly as research and documentary projects. This is triggering news and attracts some interest because 2008 is the very year Norway is celebrating 100 years since the birth of this composer (1908-1981). See a new biography below!
It is amazing to rediscover art works but perhaps not entirely unusual, as vestiges of creation do seem to turn up again, I wonder.
- Thus, in Oslo, Norway, literaly arising from the ashes... half-burnt note-pages were found some years ago, first identified by a music student. It could be recognized and then recreated as Baldur's dreams (in companion with an NRK radio recording from the original live performance and contributions by two composers, incl. the Russian Aleksej Rybnikov, more on this later perhaps!), i.e., significant parts of Tveitt's revised music score have been found in a box, consisting of vestiges of his works from the ashes of the Hardanger house. The box was luckily preserved via Bergen Museum and then moved to the Norway's National Museum archives and reexplored recently by the musician Håvard Gimse and the conductor Ole Kristian Ruud. Ruud and Stavanger Symphony Orchestra performed a recreated version of Baldur's Draumar in May 2002 in Grieghallen during the Bergen Music Festival, an event I happened to experience.
- In London, the complete 1938 original first score has also late 2007 surprisingly been refound in music archives at Covent Garden (it was sent by Geirr Tveitt to Mr. Bruce Ottley, Covent Garden in 1939).
NEW INTEREST. This, and other interesting stuff is outlined both in a recent film documentary by the team of Sondre Hallvardsson Bjørgum (son of the exceptional Hardanger fiddle player Hallvard Bjørgum, I guess) and shown this autumn on NRK, and also in Reidar Storaas' revised biography of Geirr Tveitt, Mellom triumf og tragedie (between triumph and tragedy), a biography, launched in the new Litteraturhuset in Oslo (24 Sept) as well as Bergen last week. I enjoyed the launch in Oslo with the well-prepared biographer and journalist Reidar Storaas (also a friend of Tveitt), the singer and guitar musician Lars Klevstrand (who has performed with Tveitt's music for decades), and the musicolog (I think) August Albertsen. In additon, the Think (electric car) industrial designer and Hardanger/Norheimsund-born Stig Olav Skeie had prepared and presented contributions to a discography.
AN ARTIST'S LIFE AND WORKS. I will read the new biography with interest (only scanned some parts now), but I appreciate that Storaas' new biography expands on Tveitt's artistic works as well as life, part of that is controversial stuff, I guess. However, the fascinating artist who renamed himself Geirr Tveitt (rather than Nils Tveit) still is an enigma, not least after the recent discoveries!
INGEBJØRG GRESVIG. Although many of Tveitt's artistic and life connections are mentioned including his first wife, herself a musician, I still miss more information about what he learned from and came to do in inspirational collaboration with his first wife, Ingebjørg Gresvig. She can be thought of as "the Andsnes" of those days, because she already was a creative, distinguished, and known master of the grand piano when they married. She had performed e.g. for many audiences and notable families in the cultural Berlin. Personally I really appreciate our lively encounters in the neighborhood of Kalfaret, Bergen when she was still alive. We could also fully observe directly how she memorized the notes and played excellently even at a high age. So my thoughts in this Geirr Tveitt year also go to her, thanks for your inspirations!
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