Thursday - April 10

Eldborg
Orchestral concert I

Orchestral concert I

Mirror Neuron System:  "Just do it" ...  the composer says.

Eighteen Hundred & Seventy-Five was commissioned by the Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra for their 2014 New Music Festival. Eighteen Hundred & Seventy-Five is Valgeir's first commission  for large orchestra. The WSO performed Dreamland, an orchestral adaptation of Valgei.r's film score of the same name at the New Music Festival in 2012 and subsequently commissioned this new work. The title is a reference to the Icelandic settlement in Winnipeg. “The winter of 1875–1876 was one of the coldest on record in Manitoba”.

Earth Plays for Orchestra is a tribute to the sounds, music and words of people gathering at particular places in the world throughout time. It could be imagined that these gatherings have left "acoustic imprints". The piece is thus a proposal for an acoustic unlocking of these sounds and words once embedded in stone. Earth Plays 1 is the first of four plays and is set at Lake Þingvellir, Iceland evoking images of the reciting of the Laws form the Law- Book, the gatherings

Kaldur Sólargeisli  is composed in close cooperation with unique Icelandic writer/poet Guðrún Eva Mínervudóttir and singer/songwriter Ólöf Arnalds

Diamonds for one to three orchestras, or one orchestra divided in three, is nothing but the title shape: one group of instruments ever-so-slowly swoops up and then down, while another group mirrors it, a shape presented in three overlapping iterations over twenty-plus minutes.