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duration approximately 12 minutes<\/p>\n
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The raven, with its black feathers and characteristic call, is a bird with mythological overtones. In early Norse mythology, the god Oden had two ravens that flew out over the world, gathering knowledge.<\/p>\n
Among all the peoples living near the Arctic circle, the raven has always been associated with the sun, the myth being either that a raven stole the sun or revealed it. Presumably it is the blackness of the raven that evokes the association with the sun, its opposite.<\/p>\n
In Swedish, there is an idiomatic expression making ravens a bad omen (\u201ca raven of disaster\u201d), and in the past the raven was the bird of death. People believed that seeing a raven meant that one was going to die.<\/p>\n
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What about the call of the raven? In Swedish you can be \u201choarse as a raven,\u201d but that\u2019s actually a bit unfair. Ravens have more than one call, and many of them are very sonorous.<\/p>\n
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In \u201cRaven Chant\u201d the saxophone and the trumpet sing and call together. Alongside them, the oboe and the clarinet respond. In an interlude the bassoon takes over, calling out a drone with low sounds, resembling those of the double bass and bass drum, and sounding like a huge bumblebee. The piano plays an important role, with huge clusters of sound interrupting and dominating the flow. In the final movement, there is a general collapse into a huge hollow, out of which the piece is concluded.<\/p>\n
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\u201cWhere the raven pales and the swan turns black\u201d. There, in that magical place, anything can happen, can\u2019t it?
\nI composed Raven Chant for the Either\/Or ensemble, and it will be premiered at a portrait concert at the Miller Theatre in New York in March, 2012.<\/p>\n
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Karin Rehnqvist<\/em><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Raven Chant is related to the stage composition \u201dWhere the raven pales,\u201d a piece including voice. 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