Danish String Quartet and Danish National Girls’ Choir
The Grammy-nominated Danish String Quartet joins the Danish National Girls’ Choir in combining old traditions and new music. They premiere the Stanford Live co-commission by composer and Stanford alumnus David Lang, titled in wildness, a work about the relationship between humans and mother earth. The first half of the program features folksongs and new music by American and Nordic women composers.
Tour presented with the generous support of (DR) Danish Broadcasting Corporation.
Pre-Concert Talk: Danish String Quartet and the Danish Girls National Chorus
Wednesday, April 15th, 6:45pm at Bing Concert Hall
Join David Lang, composer of in wildness, and Charlotte Rowan, music director of the Danish National Girls' Choir, for a pre-concert talk.
This pre-concert talk is open to ticketholders.
Program
CAROLINE SHAW: Allemande from Partita for 8 Voices
LOTTA WENNÄKOSKI: “Vorüber, ach, vorüber!” (Pass by, oh Pass by!) from Pige (Girl)
FRANZ SCHUBERT: Andante con moto from String Quartet No. 14 in D minor, D. 810, "Death and the Maiden"
ANNA THORVALDSDOTTIR: "Þann heilaga kross" (On the holy cross)
SWEDISH TRADITIONAL (ARR. RUNE TONSGAARD SØRENSEN): "Kisti du kom" (Kisti you came)
DANISH TRADITIONAL (ARR. RUNE TONSGAARD SØRENSEN): "Dronning Dagmar ligger udi Ribe syg" (Queen Dagmar lies ill in Ribe)
RUNE TONSGAARD SØRENSEN: Once a Shoemaker
ASTRID SONNE: "How far"
CAROLINE SHAW (ARR. CHARLOTTE ROWAN): "And so" from Is A Rose
TURLOUGH O’CAROLAN (ARR. FREDRIK SJÖLIN): "Captain O’Kane"
CARL NIELSEN / B.S INGEMANN, Danish traditional
(ARR. RUNE TONSGAARD SØRENSEN): "Tit er jeg glad og et brudestykke" (Often I am glad and a wedding tune)
- Intermission -
DAVID LANG: in wildness
after texts by Henry David Thoreau and Hans Christian Andersen
(co-commissioned by Stanford Live)
introduction to wildness
we wish to speak
no wealth can buy
we will walk
nowadays
old tree
the preservation of the world
we took a walk
