Varberg Chamber Choir and Gageego!

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Max Käx, Varberg Chamber Choir, Johannes Landgren, Gunno Palmquist, Endre Vetås & Jens Kristian Søgaard (Gageego!)

Varberg Chamber Choir and Gageego!

This year, the festival ends with a large-scale concert on 14 August at 12.00 in Kalv’s Kyrka: Varberg chamber choir, organist Johannes Landgren and Gageego! under the direction of conductor Gunno Palmquist!

The concert contains a rich panorama of Swedish contemporary choir music and also connects the festival theme, Utopica Futura, with Hildegard of Bingen’s music and the Kalv festival commission:  Kindaholmsparafrasen by the festival’s emeritus Max Käck!

This is how Max Käck writes about his premiere:

“In 2099, a decision is made on a new road between Östra Frölunda and Kalv. During the excavation work, one encounters a casket in the ground, with texts and notes from the time before the prevailing world culture. They contain time-typical attempts to get through the external structures and the superficial light and find the core of music. Despite its fragmentary state, one finds that the notes are notes of a music in which everything is redundantly removed so that only the most essential aspects remain. A team of linguists and musicologists start to work on recreating and interpreting the material. Due to the circumstances and the state of the material, the confusion that occurs during the work between trivial messages from digital devices and serious poetic texts cannot be blamed on them. The result of the working group’s efforts is the present paraphrase of a previously unknown work [of music].”

A warm welcome!

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