{"id":3808,"date":"2025-04-10T14:29:28","date_gmt":"2025-04-10T13:29:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/karin-rehnqvist.se\/eng\/?p=3808"},"modified":"2025-04-10T14:29:30","modified_gmt":"2025-04-10T13:29:30","slug":"world-premiere-of-take-the-milky-way-in-helsinki","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/karin-rehnqvist.se\/eng\/world-premiere-of-take-the-milky-way-in-helsinki\/","title":{"rendered":"World premiere of Take the Milky Way in Helsinki"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A new choral work by <strong>Karin Rehnqvist<\/strong> for mixed choir, baroque orchestra and ad libitum audience will be heard on April 26 in Helsinki. The piece is called <em>Take the Milky Way<\/em>. Four movements, with lyrics by <strong>Kerstin Perski<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The world premiere will be performed by <strong>the Helsinki Chamber Choir<\/strong> (Helsingin kamarikuoro) with its conductor and artistic director, Professor <strong>Nils Schweckendiek<\/strong>, and the <strong>Finnish Baroque Orchestra<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Helsinki Chamber Choir, with its roots in the Finnish Radio Choir, is Finland\u2019s only chamber choir consisting of professional singers. They are now celebrating their 20th anniversary, and for their anniversary concert at the Musiikkitalo (Helsinki Music Centre), they have commissioned four works, of which Rehnqvist\u2019s <em>Take the Milky Way<\/em> is one.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The 12-minute piece is divided into the movements: Invisible threads \u2013 Rush \/ Black hole interlude \u2013 And the journey continues \u2013 Reach out your hand.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/karin-rehnqvist.se\/eng\/take-the-milky-way\/\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"3804\">Read the online commentary <\/a><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/karin-rehnqvist.se\/eng\/take-the-milky-way\/\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"3804\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">here<\/a><\/strong> \u203a<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"417\" data-attachment-id=\"3810\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/karin-rehnqvist.se\/eng\/world-premiere-of-take-the-milky-way-in-helsinki\/take-the-milky-way_skiss\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/karin-rehnqvist.se\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Take-the-Milky-Way_skiss.jpg?fit=1255%2C818&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"1255,818\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Take the Milky Way_skiss\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/karin-rehnqvist.se\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Take-the-Milky-Way_skiss.jpg?fit=640%2C417&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/karin-rehnqvist.se\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Take-the-Milky-Way_skiss.jpg?resize=640%2C417&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3810\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/karin-rehnqvist.se\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Take-the-Milky-Way_skiss.jpg?resize=1024%2C667&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/karin-rehnqvist.se\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Take-the-Milky-Way_skiss.jpg?resize=400%2C261&amp;ssl=1 400w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/karin-rehnqvist.se\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Take-the-Milky-Way_skiss.jpg?resize=600%2C391&amp;ssl=1 600w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/karin-rehnqvist.se\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Take-the-Milky-Way_skiss.jpg?w=1255&amp;ssl=1 1255w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">A first draft.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>The anniversary concert, which has the theme <em>Toivo<\/em> (Hope), will be framed by music by J S Bach and G F Handel. In between, new music by all female composers: from Estonia, Finland, Latvia, the UK and Sweden.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Johann Sebastian Bach<\/strong>: Der Geist hilft unser Schwachheit auf, BWV 226<br><strong>Helena Tulve<\/strong>: And Death Shall Have No Dominion (world premiere)<br><strong>Matilda Sepp\u00e4l\u00e4<\/strong>: Casual Usual (world premiere)<br><strong>Santa Ratniece<\/strong>: Lustral (world premiere)<br><strong>Anna Clyne<\/strong>: In thy Beauty<br><strong>Karin Rehnqvist<\/strong>: Take the Milky Way (world premiere)<br><strong>Georg Friedrich Handel:<\/strong> Foundling Hospital Anthem (original version)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Helsinki Chamber Choir (HKK) collaborates with domestic and foreign festivals and ensembles. The choir&#8217;s concerts are regularly broadcast on the radio and TV, and have also appeared in ARTE and EBU productions. In recent years, the choir has toured the USA, the UK, Italy, Belgium, Russia and Scandinavia. HKK is a member of Tenso, the European network for professional chamber choirs.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new choral work by Karin Rehnqvist for mixed choir, baroque orchestra and ad libitum audience will be heard on April 26 in <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3812,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3808","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/karin-rehnqvist.se\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/HKK-PromoVintergatan_2.jpg?fit=1531%2C992&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p79arM-Zq","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":4058,"url":"https:\/\/karin-rehnqvist.se\/eng\/music-publishers-association-prize-for-take-the-milky-way\/","url_meta":{"origin":3808,"position":0},"title":"Music Publishers Association Prize for Take the Milky Way","author":"admin2","date":"November 18, 2025","format":false,"excerpt":"Karin Rehnqvist has been awarded\u00a0Musikf\u00f6rl\u00e4ggarna\u00a0the Swedish Music Publishers Association Prize 2025 for her composition Take the Milky Way, for mixed choir and baroque orchestra The\u00a0award\u00a0ceremony\u00a0took\u00a0place\u00a0in\u00a0Stockholm\u00a0on\u00a07\u00a0November, 2025. 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