{"id":2246,"date":"2021-09-21T21:05:59","date_gmt":"2021-09-21T20:05:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/karin-rehnqvist.se\/eng\/?p=2246"},"modified":"2023-12-22T17:23:44","modified_gmt":"2023-12-22T16:23:44","slug":"night-chant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/karin-rehnqvist.se\/eng\/night-chant\/","title":{"rendered":"NIGHT CHANT"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>NIGHT CHANT <\/strong>(Musik i natten)<br>for seven instruments*<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Duration: ca. 11 minutes<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At night our perception is sensitive. Sound is experienced louder, light brighter. You have to be wary.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As I compose this we are living in difficult times. The coronavirus is spreading and more and more people are getting infected. In many places in the world, the political situation is unstable. Many of us work from home and meet only a few people in real life. We have become unused to mingling with groups and find it hard to sift through our impressions if we go shopping or walk down a street with heavy traffic.&nbsp;We have to take care of both ourselves and one another.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Night Chant\u00a0<\/em>is about just that when our senses are wide open. This should colour the performance, it should be played with our hearing in a night mode. Therefore the sonority is warm and dark,\u00a0the music stays relatively soft. Our ears have to be directed towards the music, to encounter the music. The alto flute and the bass clarinet open with cantabile motifs in which the dynamics and the ornaments are vital elements. Now and then the sound quakes a bit when a strong vibrato arises out of the dynamics.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Out of this sonorous, dark section a window gradually opens up. And from this, a bright melody peeps out. A kind of hymn. It is mild and simple. This, too, is played softly, in a listening mood.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Thus light meets darkness, as is so often the case. They are one another\u2019s prerequisites. <br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>15 February 2021<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2013 Kari<em>n Rehnqvist<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Composed for Norrbotten NEO, commissioned by Norrbottensmusiken<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br>*Alto flute, bass clarinet, vibraphone, piano, violin, viola and cello<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Translated by, Robert Carroll<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br><br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NIGHT CHANT (Musik i natten)for seven instruments* Duration: ca. 11 minutes At night our perception is sensitive. 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