Watch the New Year's concert on Fædrelandsvennen

We at the Kristiansand Symphony Orchestra are delighted to welcome you to a wonderful start to the new year with our time-honored New Year’s Concert. Despite closed roads and musicians snowed in, the concert will go ahead as planned this year as well.

Digital cultural experience

The box office atperforming arts centre Kilden performing arts centre received inquiries from audience members who are also stuck indoors and therefore unable to attend the concert. We are therefore especially pleased to announce that, in collaboration with Fædrelandsvennen, we will be streaming the entire concert online.

Fædrelandsvennen is one of Kilden’s main partners, and several live broadcasts of the symphony orchestra’s concerts are planned for this season.

The broadcast is available on the Fædrelandsvennen website:

The Program

The concert will feature a varied and diverse program with selections from musicals, works by great composers, and Norwegian folk songs. The host for the evening is none other than Herborg Kråkevik. The actress and singer hardly needs any introduction, but with her long and varied career as an entertainer, the audience can rest assured that she will guide you smoothly through the concert.

Giordano Bellincampi is a familiar and beloved figure to many people in Southern Norway. Bellincampi served as chief conductor of the KSO from 2013 to 2018 and was named the orchestra’s honorary conductor in 2020. It is a pleasure for us to welcome Giordano Bellincampi back to Kristiansand.

A Journey into the World of Sound

During the intermission, viewers at home will be treated to the premiere of a documentary featuring our very own cellist, Ariel DeWolf. Together with music professor Bjørn Ole Rasch from the University of Agder, she explores acoustics at various locations in Kristiansand. The goal is to learn how different acoustics affect the musical experience, both for the performer and the listener.

“This is actually one of the most exciting projects I’ve been involved in for a long time. What we’ve tried to do is test the acoustics of different rooms using the same instrument, the same music, and the same performer. It’s very interesting to see how the acoustics influence one’s approach to the music,” says Bjørn Ole Rasch.

Enjoy!

Program

George Frideric Handel: "LaRéjouissance" from *Music for the Royal Fireworks*

Benny Andersson/Björn Ulvaeus:HappyNew Year

Benjamin Britten:Dawn(from Four Sea Interludes)

Ludwig van Beethoven:Fromthe Pastoral Symphony

Dmitri Shostakovich:SymphonyNo. 9, 1st Movement.

Aram Khachaturian:Waltzfrom the Masquerade Suite

Jerry Bock:“SunriseSunset” from the musical *Fiddler on the Roof*

Leroy Anderson:Belleof the Ball

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Johan Svendsen:NorwegianArtists' Carnival

Stephen Sondheim: "TheLadies Who Lunch" from the musical "Company"

Antonín Dvořák:SymphonyNo. 9: From the New World, Movement 3: Molto Vivace

Otto Nielsen/Alf Prøysen: One DayYou'llSee

Arthur Honegger:Pacific231

Torhild Goksøyr/Einar Skjæraasen:DanceMy Song, Cry My Song

Edvard Grieg: "Trolltog," from "Lyric Pieces"