{"id":2433,"date":"2022-08-26T16:21:13","date_gmt":"2022-08-26T15:21:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/karin-rehnqvist.se\/eng\/?p=2433"},"modified":"2022-08-28T15:39:09","modified_gmt":"2022-08-28T14:39:09","slug":"time-for-the-swedish-premiere-of-silent-earth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/karin-rehnqvist.se\/eng\/time-for-the-swedish-premiere-of-silent-earth\/","title":{"rendered":"Time for the Swedish premiere of Silent Earth"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-content-justification-right is-layout-flex wp-container-core-buttons-is-layout-89b4c9e9 wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link has-background\" href=\"https:\/\/www.berwaldhallen.se\/play\/silent-earth\/\" style=\"border-radius:28px;background-color:#6289a2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Listen to <em>Silent Earth<\/em>! Swedish premiere, <br>Berwaldhallen, Aug 27, 2022 <br>[Baltic Sea Festival]<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On 27 August, after a delay of two years,&nbsp;<strong>Karin Rehnqvist<\/strong>\u2019s&nbsp;<em>Silent Earth<\/em>&nbsp;finally will receive its Swedish premiere during the&nbsp;<strong>Baltic Sea Festival<\/strong>&nbsp;in Stockholm.&nbsp;<strong>The Swedish Radio Choir,<\/strong>&nbsp;<strong>The Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra&nbsp;<\/strong>and conductor&nbsp;<strong>Dima Slobodeniouk&nbsp;<\/strong>will perform the half-hour-long work that was described as \u201cbewildering and powerfully encouraging\u201d in the nomination for the&nbsp;<strong>Nordic Council\u2019s Music Prize<\/strong>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Karin Rehnqvist takes us out among the planets, where we can see the earth from a distance, in silence. Silent Earth is composed for mixed choir and symphony orchestra. The texts for the three movements are written by Kerstin Perski: Silent Earth \u2013 We, Who Once Were \u2013 The Burning Earth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_89 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-light-blue ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<div class=\"ez-toc-title-container\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">About Drifted<\/p>\n<span class=\"ez-toc-title-toggle\"><a href=\"#\" class=\"ez-toc-pull-right ez-toc-btn ez-toc-btn-xs ez-toc-btn-default ez-toc-toggle\" aria-label=\"Toggle Table of Content\"><span class=\"ez-toc-js-icon-con\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #999;color:#999\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #999;color:#999\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-3'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/karin-rehnqvist.se\/eng\/time-for-the-swedish-premiere-of-silent-earth\/#Karin_comments\" >Karin comments<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-3'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/karin-rehnqvist.se\/eng\/time-for-the-swedish-premiere-of-silent-earth\/#Listen_to_the_performance\" >Listen to the performance:<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Karin_comments\"><\/span>Karin comments<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u2013 In&nbsp;<em>Silent Earth&nbsp;<\/em>we have worked with improvisation. The theme is the crisis that we see today, both when it comes to the climate and to the politics surrounding this issue. It is a crisis that I feel I must respond to \u2013 it is quite simply difficult not to speak of it. So Kerstin and I sat one evening and indulged in fantasies. In our imagination, we were on another planet where we could see our own beautiful earth at a distance, in silence. There was something consoling in this.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u2013 The title \u2019Silent Earth\u2019 is also equivocal; the word&nbsp;silent&nbsp;can mean both calm and quiet. Based on this, I did some improvisations for voice and piano which she responded to with texts that captured the atmosphere in my improvisations. Then I wrote completely new music for these texts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u2013&nbsp;<em>Silent Earth<\/em>&nbsp;is written for choir and orchestra, without soloists. So the choir has to carry the whole textual expression. I have worked with more concentration than ever on the interplay between the voices and the instruments of the orchestra. I\u2019ve let them coalesce or be contrasted with one another. It has turned out to be very dramatic music, and I almost had a fright from the power of it when I was composing. But as it is composed for two of the world\u2019s best choirs (The Netherlands and the Swedish Radio Choirs) I have felt free to pull out all the stops.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Listen_to_the_performance\"><\/span>Listen to the performance:<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Swedish premiere of Silent Earth will be in the concert from Berwaldhallen, Stockholm, on Saturday, August 27 at 7 p.m.<br>The concert is broadcast directly on&nbsp;<strong>Swedish Radio P2<\/strong>&nbsp;and is also available for listening to on&nbsp;<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.berwaldhallen.se\/play\/silent-earth\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Berwaldhallen Play<\/a><\/strong>&nbsp;\u203a<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Picture from the rehearsals In Berwaldhallen with the conductor Dima Slobodeniouk, 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