Tag: Choir

  • There will be a statue of Björk in Reykjavik

    There will be a statue of Björk in Reykjavik

    Icelandic artist Björk has been named an honorary citizen of Reykjavik. Instead of organizing a traditional ceremony, Reykjavík City Councilors decided to commission a monument in her honor. As RÚV notes, Björk is the eighth person to receive this honor. Other honorees included Reverend Bjarni Jónsson, ophthalmologist Kristján Sveinsson, former president Vigdís Finnbogadóttir, chess grandmaster…

  • Start Christmas Eve with Thomas Nordegren and the Radio Choir

    Start Christmas Eve with Thomas Nordegren and the Radio Choir

    In a live broadcast on Christmas Eve morning, Thomas Nordegren talks to four members of the Radio Choir; Anna Graca (alto), Eleonora Poignant (soprano), Karl Söderström (bass) and Love Tronner (tenor) about Christmas music and their personal thoughts about Christmas. We get to hear “Christmas, Christmas, glorious Christmas” with text by Edvard Evers and music…

  • The Christmas Miracle in Brant Rock

    The Christmas Miracle in Brant Rock

    Join us on a Christmas music adventure where we meet Bach's Christmas oratorio and Emmy Köhler's carols, WWI soldiers and modern day Whamageddon participants, violins, chimes and sampled choirs. The program features Niklas Strömstedt and Katarina Ekman.The presenter is the composer Andrea Tarrodi.

  • Choral singing makes the brain happy

    Choral singing makes the brain happy

    The mental state and ability to think seem to be improved by choral singing. But what is it about group singing that produces these effects? And does it matter what music you perform? We talk to Thores Theorell, professor emeritus of internal medicine at Karolinska Institutet, who studied how music affects the brain and body.…

  • Students celebrate Independence Day in a traditional torchlight procession

    Students celebrate Independence Day in a traditional torchlight procession

    “The student torchlight procession brings us, the students of the capital region, together year after year. In addition to the independence celebration, we remember the students who built the way for us,” said Nea HakalaChairman of the student union of the University of Helsinki. The torchlight procession started at 16:00 at the Heroes' Cross monument…

  • First Sunday in Advent: The big Christmas tree is lit in the Town Hall Square

    First Sunday in Advent: The big Christmas tree is lit in the Town Hall Square

    Everyone is invited to join in the festive procession from Nyhavn to Rådhuspladsen, where Santa lights the 20-metre-long, four-tonne tree accompanied by a choir and live orchestra. See the schedule here. The full version of this article is only available to subscribers. Already a subscriber, log in here: sign in Forgot your password? Get unlimited…

  • Helsinki’s Tuomaan Market opens on Friday with festive attractions

    Helsinki’s Tuomaan Market opens on Friday with festive attractions

    Emphasizing sustainability and an alternative to mass-produced gift and decorative products, Tuomaan Market presents a considerable number of artisans and small producers from all over Finland. The market is not only a place for shopping, but also a center for festive activities and culinary delights. The central areas of the market, the Licensed Restaurant Yard…

  • Return of the Mysterious King

    Return of the Mysterious King

    The king’s criminal friends Mohammed VI goes nowhere without his best friends. The German heavy criminal brothers who also practice MMA are not the company the population wants for their king. Titti and Ebba try to find out where the story of Mohammed VI begins and why he is called the world’s most timid monarch.…

  • Copenhagen to mark the anniversary of the war in Ukraine

    Songs and pancakesThe event also features songs from the Ukrainian Soul Choir and St. Ann’s Girls’ Choir, and guests are treated to City Hall pancakes – a tradition that exists for special occasions. The town hall will be illuminated in yellow and blue, while the Ukrainian flag will fly in honor of Ukraine. Everyone is…

  • VMA in Uppsala municipality •

    VMA in Uppsala municipality •

    About Kjell Lönnå Started his first choir as a 15-year-old and is strongly associated with Sundsvall as leader of the city’s chamber choir since the start in 1965. Has led choirs in radio and television since 1957 and has been the host of a variety of television programs, including and SVT’s Café Sundsvall and Playful…

  • Swedish Radio wishes Happy New Year

    Swedish Radio wishes Happy New Year

    As usual, there is traditionally organ music by Bach, New Year’s poems with Kristina Adolphson, singing by the Radio Choir and last but not least cathedral bells from all of Sweden’s cathedrals. In addition, during the hour-long broadcast we get to listen to known and unknown New Year’s voices from the time around World War…

  • On the eve of 2022: New Year with Swedish Radio

    On the eve of 2022: New Year with Swedish Radio

    As usual, there will be traditional organ music by Bach, New Year’s poem with Kristina Adolphson, singing by the Radio Choir and last but not least cathedral bells from all of Sweden’s cathedrals. In addition, during the hour-long broadcast, we get to listen to known and unknown New Year’s voices from the time around the…

  • LIVE: Christmas concert with the Radio Choir and the Radio Symphony Orchestra

    LIVE: Christmas concert with the Radio Choir and the Radio Symphony Orchestra

    Swedish Radio’s own ensembles The Radio Choir and the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra offer us a colorful and varied Christmas program with music from both oratorios by Handel and Rosenberg as well as slightly more modern American tones by Eddie Pola and Irving Berlin. In between we get more traditional Swedish Christmas music that smells…

  • Turku intends to allow public participation in the Christmas peace declaration

    Turku intends to allow public participation in the Christmas peace declaration

    Turku authorities are preparing to publish an annual Christmas peace proclamation to the public after Covid broke the 700-year tradition in 2020. This would mean that participants would be able to gather at the Old Market Square to watch the ceremony in a familiar way. However, city officials said the plan could change if the…

  • The birds’ song is getting quieter and quieter

    The birds’ song is getting quieter and quieter

    As early as the 1960s, biologist Rachel Carson warned in her book “Silent Spring” that bird song was about to disappear. Now there is a new study that shows that her worries have become a reality. The birdsong has become quieter in the last 25 years according to the researchers. What does this depend on…

  • Björk concert with Hamrahlið choir

    Björk concert with Hamrahlið choir

    A musician announcing plans to “reconstruct” a beloved work on a concert stage can make a devoted fan shudder. Are you waiting for the effect? Are you afraid of what might happen? Perhaps it is so, given the turbulent history of the idea. Björk’s TV performance at the Harpa Concert Hall in Reykjavík – part…

  • Fire of the Miðgarðakirkja church on the island of Grímsey

    Fire of the Miðgarðakirkja church on the island of Grímsey

    Yesterday night the church of Miðgarðakirkja on the island of Grímsey (north of Akureyri) burned down completely. Before midnight, a great fire broke out in the church and according to the mbl.is portal, which was the first to report the fire, it was not possible to salvage valuables from the church. The cause of the…

  • Fire of the Grímseyjarkirkja church

    Fire of the Grímseyjarkirkja church

    Yesterday night, the Grímseyjarkirkja church on the island of Grímsey (north of Akureyri) burned down completely. Before midnight, a great fire broke out in the church and according to the mbl.is portal, which was the first to report the fire, it was not possible to salvage valuables from the church. The cause of the fire…

  • FACTS: See previous winners of the Nordic Council Film Prize

    This year, the Nordic Council Film Prize will be held for the 18th time. The Danish candidate for the film award is the animated documentary “Flugt” by the film director Jonas Poher Rasmussen. Last five years winners: 2020: “Children” (Norway). 2019: “The Queen” (Denmark). 208: “Woman at War” (Iceland). 2017: “Little Wing” (Finland). 2016: “Louder…

  • 120 people have contacted about cases in the DR Girls’ Choir

    DR further writes that “the number of reports is not equal to the number of conditions or episodes, as a large number of inquiries deal with the same conditions and episodes”. The final survey is expected to be published by the end of the third quarter or the beginning of the fourth quarter of this…

  • About 120 inquiries in the survey of the DR Girls’ Choir

    About 120 inquiries have been received in an external legal investigation of matters back in time in DR’s girls’ choir. It writes DR in a press release.

  • Documentary takes over board after former choir director

    Documentary film director Phie Ambo will be the new chairman of the board of the Statens Kunstfond. It writes the Ministry of Culture in a press release. Phie Ambo has been appointed after conductor and former head of DR’s girls’ choir Michael Bojesen has resigned. He withdrew at the weekend after 12 former singers in…

  • The girl choir’s ex-chief conductor takes leave from Malmö Opera

    Michael Bojesen is taking leave from his position as director at Malmö Opera. According to Politiken, he states this in an email to the Swedish newspaper Sydsvenska Dagbladet. He justifies the decision with the fact that Politiken has reported on a sexualized environment in the DR Girls’ Choir during his work as chief conductor from…

  • Former head of girls’ choir resigns as chairman of art fund

    The conductor Michael Bojesen has announced to the Minister of Culture Joy Mogensen (S) that he is resigning from his position as chairman of the board of the Statens Kunstfond. He states this in an email to several media, and this is confirmed by the Ministry of Culture. He withdraws after Politiken on Friday brought…

  • Michael Bojesen resigns as chairman of the Statens Kunstfond

    The conductor Michael Bojesen has announced to the Minister of Culture Joy Mogensen (S) that he is resigning from his position as chairman of the board of the Statens Kunstfond. He states this in an email to Ritzau, and this is confirmed by the Ministry of Culture. He withdraws after Politiken on Friday brought a…

  • Witnesses: Accused of murder in 1987 told he had killed

    Several witnesses were questioned in court in Turku, Finland, on Wednesday, where a 52-year-old Danish man is on trial for a murder committed on the ferry “Viking Sally” on its way from Sweden to Finland in 1987. A 20-year-old man was assaulted and died after being hit with a hammer, while a 22-year-old woman was…

  • Lawyer must investigate possible sexual harassment in the DR Girls’ Choir

    Lawyer must investigate possible sexual harassment in the DR Girls’ Choir

    Danmarks Radio launches an external legal investigation into possible cross-border behavior in the DR Girls’ Choir. It writes Politiken. The investigation stems from two inquiries about sexual harassment that lie “quite a few years back in time”, informs cultural director of DR Henrik Bo Nielsen to the newspaper. One inquiry was received by the director…

  • Music video commemorates the bombing of the French School

    Music video commemorates the bombing of the French School

    On the day we commemorate the liberation after five years of German occupation – 4 May – a new music video with Lis Sørensen and Kira Skov puts the spotlight on the tragedy of 21 March 1945, when Allied planes accidentally dropped bombs on the French School. Lis Sørensen and Kira Skov have sung the…

  • Lund’s student singers roll up their sleeves

    Lund’s student singers roll up their sleeves

    This year, Lund’s student singers have not only sung in the spring but also the impending mass vaccination. In collaboration with Region Skåne has the singers delivered a movie on Youtube entitled “Roll up your sleeves”. “Imagine leaving the house, when we broke the virtuoso”, sings the double quartet from Lund’s student singers who also…

  • The memory of the ‘Choir of the World’: Daniel Alling, Warrington

    The memory of the ‘Choir of the World’: Daniel Alling, Warrington

    Warrington Wednesday Yesterday I went through parts of Wales’ beautiful landscapes to record material for upcoming reports on the election to the Welsh Parliament. I arrived to the small town of Llangollen at lunchtime after passing through the rolling countryside with its green-clad softly shaped mountains and hills and deep valleys and countless flocks of…

  • Listen to Swedish Radio’s digital hymn choir

    Listen to Swedish Radio’s digital hymn choir

    At the turn of the month March / April, Swedish Radio invited the audience to participate in a digital hymn choir. 115 people recorded movie clips with their song and submitted. Here, the contributions have been put together for a large choir that sings to organ playing by Jonas Nilsson, church musician in Växjö. Do…

  • Churches open to more guests for confirmations and weddings

    It will now be possible for the spring confirmands and bridal couples to invite more guests to the church. It writes the church media folkekirken.dk. On Monday, there was a meeting in a so-called sector partnership for the Danish National Church. Here it was agreed that the area requirement per person be lowered. Both for…

  • The art of making award-winning films

    The art of making award-winning films

    Peter Schønau Fog, who turns 50 on April 20, graduated from the Danish Film School in 1999. And it was here that he laid the foundations for his later success. His graduation film, “Little Man”, was seen by many as being a potential starting shot for a great career. He has previously attended the Czech…