14. Celebrating Stenhammar
10 October 2021, 13:30 - 16:00
Song Connections
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Jacqueline du Pré Music Building
St Hilda's College
Oxford
3pm-4pm - Stenhammar: A Swedish Voice
The Swedish composer Wilhelm Stenhammar, born 150 years ago, was one of the finest song composers of his generation and would surely be mentioned in the same breath as his more famous contemporaries if Swedish-language song was better known. To introduce this two-part event, Leah Broad, Daniel Grimley and Martin Sturfält locate Stenhammar in a wider European context, discussing the increasingly prominent place of Scandinavian music and art in a continent with an increasingly mobile population. In the second part, they delve into the man himself: his distinctive musical voice; his strong relationship with nature and with the Swedish language; and his profoundly-held view that the arts should be for all, not just those he described as having ‘perfectly pressed trousers’. Both parts are illustrated with live music, including various songs and a complete performance of Stenhammar’s glorious piano suite Nights of Late Summer.
PRACTICAL INFORMATION
This event is an in-person and livestreamed event. Livestreamed performances will be available to watch live in our Digital Concert Hall at the advertised performance time and will be available to watch again and on demand until the end of November.
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All our seating is unreserved. This means you are guaranteed a seat in your chosen area, but not a specific seat. In order to allow for social distancing, you will be seated as an individual or as a group, based on the number of tickets you booked for this concert.
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The performance duration is approximately 2 hours 30 minutes, with a 30 minutes break.
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COVID-19
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Programme
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Wilhelm Stenhammar (1871 - 1927)
I Skogen - Adagio from String Quartet No. 4
Wilhelm Stenhammar (1871 - 1927)
Sensommarnätter, 'Nights of Late Summer' (Op. 33)
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Wilhelm Stenhammar (1871 - 1927)
Blås, blås, du vintervind, 'Blow, blow thou winter wind' - Orfeus med sin lutas klang, 'Orpheus with his lute made trees'
- Oben, wo die Sterne glühen
- Ach, wie ist's möglich dann
- Klockan
- Lutad mot gärdet
- Dottern sade
Leah Broad
Leah Broad
Speaker
Leah Broad is a Junior Research Fellow at Christ Church, University of Oxford. Her first book, a biography of four British women composers — Ethel Smyth, Rebecca Clarke, Dorothy Howell, and Doreen Carwithen — will be published by Faber & Faber in March 2023. She is a BBC New Generation Thinker so is frequently on BBC radio discussing music history, and has previously won the Observer/Anthony Burgess Prize for Arts Journalism. She wrote her DPhil on Nordic theatre music, focused on Jean Sibelius, Wilhelm Stenhammar, and Ture R... Read Full Biography
Daniel Grimley
Daniel Grimley
Speaker
Daniel Grimley is a Professor of Music at the University of Oxford and Douglas Algar tutorial fellow at Merton College. He is currently also Associate Head of Humanities at Oxford with particular responsibility for overseeing research. He is a specialist in Scandinavian and Finnish music, early twentieth-century English music, and music and cultural geography. His books include Grieg: Music, Landscape and Norwegian Identity (Boydell & Brewer, 2006), and Carl Nielsen and the Idea of Modernism (Boydell, 2010). In 2011, he was Scholar-in-Re... Read Full Biography
Agnes Auer
Agnes Auer
Soprano
Martin Sturfält