Poetry concerts
Our concerts featuring prominent Danish poets are especially worth noting. These are concerts where both text and music work together in an attempt to encourage a dialogue between words and sounds. We also hope to reach those who belong to the melting pot that lies between the literary and the musical.
All this is done with the highest respect and appreciation for the enrichment that these two worlds can give to each other.
Poul Borum...
The poetry concerts began as a cooperative effort with the currently deceased Poul Borum, a friend of the ensemble with whom we exchanged our ideas concerning poetry and music on stage.
Peer Hultberg...
We continued our journey with Peer Hultberg (Nordisk Råds Litteraturpris in 1993) and his reading of “Byen og verden”. Peer Hultberg is a lover of classical music and especially the works of J. S. Bach so we began and ended the program with selections from “Die Kunst der Fuge”.
Suzanne Brøgger...
The concerts featuring Suzanne Brøgger are called “The Royal Hermaphrodite” after a text she wrote at the request of the LINensemble. This is a poetry concert that breaks the traditional concert form in that the text beckons the music, which then takes over and clarifies the original text. The poems are read in the context of a carefully chosen string of compositions lined up like pearls on a necklace that give soul to the visionary power of these texts. This concert alone has been performed almost 20 times throughout Scandinavia.
Pia Tafdrup...
Pia Tafdrup (Nordisk Råds Litteraturpris 1999) reads from her poetry collection entitled “Territorialsange” during her feature concerts, and the program is directly connected to the work of the same name by Pelle Gudmundsen-Holmgreen (Nordisk Råds Musikpris 1980).
Inger Christensen...
The works of Per Nørgaard (Nordisk Råds Musikpris 1974) and Inger Christensen comprise a fourth performance concept in which the poet Inger Christensen reads from her award winning poem “Sommerfugledalen” (Svenska Akademiens Nordiska Award 1994) with her characteristically captivating inflections.
Søren Ulrik Thomsen...
The concerts involving Søren Ulrik Thomsen, whose captivating writing is read by the poet himself, are supplemented with the music of J.S. Bach and Henryk Mikolai Gorecki. Gorecki has written for the LINensemble (Lerchenmusik), and the masterful Hans Abrahamsen has transcribed the Bach works.
The Book of Revelations...
Nis Bank-Mikkelsen, known for his bible readings, appears with the LINensemble in performances of Messiaen’s “Quartet for the End of Time”. We have also requested that theologian and musicologist Jørgen I. Jensen write a more comprehensive text for this performance, a text that would be based on the Book of Revelations that had inspired Messiaen’s work and that would deal with Messiaen’s unique situation when he composed the piece.
Music-Dramatic Productions
Throughout the past few years, the LINensemble has been involved with larger opera projects despite the fact that they are “merely” a trio. The Aarhus Summer Opera featured a sparkling performance in 1995 of Verdi’s Macbeth, for tutti trio, supplemented by baroque specialist Lars Ulrik Mortensen at the keyboard!
HOTEL PRO FORMAS production “Chinese Compass” has been performed for full house 25 times with the LINensemble on stage. And “Mennesket skabte Gud (...i sit eget billede)” (Man created God in his own image) is a chamber opera in which composer Andy Pape sits on the stage as part of the scenography.
Coming projects: a new opera of junglekomponisten Pierre Dørge with Den Fynske Opera.
In addition, a new opera in 2006 with one of the ensembles favorite composers: Andy Pape. Premiere with 20 performances at The Royal Danish Theatre.
Children and Students
The LINensemble’s endless quest to share the delights of new music with others has provided for the ensemble’s extensive involvement with school concerts in which the children are invited on a magical journey. Recent journeys have taken place at the University in Hong Kong and at the Conservatory in Hanoi, Vietnam.
Our concerts featuring prominent Danish poets are especially worth noting. These are concerts where both text and music work together in an attempt to encourage a dialogue between words and sounds. We also hope to reach those who belong to the melting pot that lies between the literary and the musical.
All this is done with the highest respect and appreciation for the enrichment that these two worlds can give to each other.
Poul Borum...
The poetry concerts began as a cooperative effort with the currently deceased Poul Borum, a friend of the ensemble with whom we exchanged our ideas concerning poetry and music on stage.
Peer Hultberg...
We continued our journey with Peer Hultberg (Nordisk Råds Litteraturpris in 1993) and his reading of “Byen og verden”. Peer Hultberg is a lover of classical music and especially the works of J. S. Bach so we began and ended the program with selections from “Die Kunst der Fuge”.
Suzanne Brøgger...
The concerts featuring Suzanne Brøgger are called “The Royal Hermaphrodite” after a text she wrote at the request of the LINensemble. This is a poetry concert that breaks the traditional concert form in that the text beckons the music, which then takes over and clarifies the original text. The poems are read in the context of a carefully chosen string of compositions lined up like pearls on a necklace that give soul to the visionary power of these texts. This concert alone has been performed almost 20 times throughout Scandinavia.
Pia Tafdrup...
Pia Tafdrup (Nordisk Råds Litteraturpris 1999) reads from her poetry collection entitled “Territorialsange” during her feature concerts, and the program is directly connected to the work of the same name by Pelle Gudmundsen-Holmgreen (Nordisk Råds Musikpris 1980).
Inger Christensen...
The works of Per Nørgaard (Nordisk Råds Musikpris 1974) and Inger Christensen comprise a fourth performance concept in which the poet Inger Christensen reads from her award winning poem “Sommerfugledalen” (Svenska Akademiens Nordiska Award 1994) with her characteristically captivating inflections.
Søren Ulrik Thomsen...
The concerts involving Søren Ulrik Thomsen, whose captivating writing is read by the poet himself, are supplemented with the music of J.S. Bach and Henryk Mikolai Gorecki. Gorecki has written for the LINensemble (Lerchenmusik), and the masterful Hans Abrahamsen has transcribed the Bach works.
The Book of Revelations...
Nis Bank-Mikkelsen, known for his bible readings, appears with the LINensemble in performances of Messiaen’s “Quartet for the End of Time”. We have also requested that theologian and musicologist Jørgen I. Jensen write a more comprehensive text for this performance, a text that would be based on the Book of Revelations that had inspired Messiaen’s work and that would deal with Messiaen’s unique situation when he composed the piece.
Music-Dramatic Productions
Throughout the past few years, the LINensemble has been involved with larger opera projects despite the fact that they are “merely” a trio. The Aarhus Summer Opera featured a sparkling performance in 1995 of Verdi’s Macbeth, for tutti trio, supplemented by baroque specialist Lars Ulrik Mortensen at the keyboard!
HOTEL PRO FORMAS production “Chinese Compass” has been performed for full house 25 times with the LINensemble on stage. And “Mennesket skabte Gud (...i sit eget billede)” (Man created God in his own image) is a chamber opera in which composer Andy Pape sits on the stage as part of the scenography.
Coming projects: a new opera of junglekomponisten Pierre Dørge with Den Fynske Opera.
In addition, a new opera in 2006 with one of the ensembles favorite composers: Andy Pape. Premiere with 20 performances at The Royal Danish Theatre.
Children and Students
The LINensemble’s endless quest to share the delights of new music with others has provided for the ensemble’s extensive involvement with school concerts in which the children are invited on a magical journey. Recent journeys have taken place at the University in Hong Kong and at the Conservatory in Hanoi, Vietnam.