Name: Great plans for future musicals
Start: 2024-05-25
End: 2024-05-25
Location: Grieghallen

Organization

Admin

Bergen International Festival

Orchestra

BIT20 Ensemble

Conductor

Trond Madsen

Singer

Mezzo-soprano

Tora Augestad

Instrumentalist

Jørgen Træen

Piano

Kjetil Møster

Saxophone

Great plans for future musicals

Bergen

Norway

Grieghallen

Peer Gynt Hall

Great plans for future musicals: Concert Various

Public

Concert

Simon Samuel

Approved

Inspirert av 50-talls musikaler som Kiss me Kate og Singing in the Rain har Øyvind Torvund komponert sin første utopiske musikal.

Festspillkomponisten har jobbet med «Plans»-serien for musikk siden 2015, og har laget musikalske planer for opera, fiolin, vokal og ulike ensembler. Spontane ideer skisseres ned på papiret, og ut ifra disse fantasifulle tankebyksene komponerer Torvund ny musikk. Musikken fremføres med skissene på storskjerm, slik at publikum kan forestille seg mer eller mindre umulige situasjoner mens de lytter.

– Planene er fantasier eller drømmer. I musikalen i fremtiden kan man kanskje sveve rundt og splætte ut i en bløtkake, steppe i skyene eller forflytte seg i tid og rom. Det er en stor skje med nostalgi, kombinert med et lyduttrykk med elektroniske, abstrakte elementer sammen med melodiene, sier komponisten.

Musikken fremføres av BIT20 Ensemble, som har et nært forhold til Torvunds kunstnerskap. Sammen vant de Spellemann i 2020. På scenen står også mezzosopran Tora Augestad, Jørgen Træen på synth og Kjetil Møster på saksofon.

I tillegg til den nye musikalen, fremføres nye arrangement av Torvunds Plans for sinfonietta og korte utdrag fra The Exotica Album, som er skrevet til BIT20 Ensemble.

norsk

Inspired by 1950s musicals such as Kiss me Kate and Singing in the Rain, Øyvind Torvund has composed his first utopian musical.

The 2024 Festival composer has been working on his Plans series since 2015, creating musical plans for opera, violin, vocals, and a variety of ensembles. Spontaneous ideas are sketched on paper, and from these imaginative brainstorms, Torvund composes new music. The music is performed with the sketches projected on a large screen, allowing the audience to imagine these more or less impossible situations while they listen.

'The plans are fantasies or dreams. In the musical of the future, one might float around and splatter into a cream pie, tap dance in the clouds, or move through time and space. It's a large spoonful of nostalgia, combined with a sound featuring electronic, abstract elements along with the melodies,' says the composer.

The music is performed by the BIT20 Ensemble, who are closely in touch with Torvund's artistry. Together, they won a Spellemann Award (the Norwegian Grammy) in 2020. They are joined on stage by mezzo-soprano Tora Augestad, Jørgen Træen on synth, and Kjetil Møster on saxophone.

In addition to the new musical, new arrangements of Torvund's Plans for sinfonietta and short excerpts from The Exotica Album, written for the BIT20 Ensemble, will be performed.

English

Great plans for future musicals by Various, Sat 25 Beal 2024, Ó (2024/2024), Seoltóir Trond Madsen, Grieghallen, Bergen, Norway

Creidmheasanna feidhmíochta (Foireann & Criú )

Caitheadh

Ionstraimíocht

Ensemble

Clár, Eolas & Achoimre

Grianghraif

Tuilleadh léitheoireachta

Dátaí & Ionaid Feidhmíochta

Ionaid