Brønnøysund Musikkorps
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Brønnøysund Musikkorps (BMK) (founded in autumn of 1894) is a wind band in Brønnøysund
, Norway, with approx. 50 members.
The BMK slogan is Korps for folk (Band for people).
Conductor is Hans Kristian Edvardsen.
with a visible hole all through. This festival is arranged in June every second year (next in June 2011).
The band participates regularly in the celebrations on 1 and 17 May, and in the ceremony of the Christmas tree
lighting on Advent Sunday
.
In addition to these regular traditions, the band has launched a number of projects cooperating with soloist singers and musicians, choirs and other bands. Below is the list of recent projects:
, with the intent of making it a tradition.
The repertoire has been selected from the classical
"literature", mixed with Christmas music
, as a warm-up to the imminent advent
.
Some of the concert pieces have been accompanied by the new church organ.
Repertoire of 2009:
Brønnøysund
is a town and the administrative centre of the municipality of Brønnøy, Norway. It is also a former municipality in Nordland county. The village of Brønnøysund received town status in 2000. The city lies along the coast and is often called "the coastal town in the middle of Norway." Brønnøysund...
, Norway, with approx. 50 members.
The BMK slogan is Korps for folk (Band for people).
Conductor is Hans Kristian Edvardsen.
Projects
The band is particularly known for its Torghattfestivalen named after the famous mountain TorghattenTorghatten
Torghatten is a mountain on Torget island in Brønnøy municipality in Nordland county, Norway. It is known for its characteristic hole, or natural tunnel, through its center...
with a visible hole all through. This festival is arranged in June every second year (next in June 2011).
The band participates regularly in the celebrations on 1 and 17 May, and in the ceremony of the Christmas tree
Christmas tree
The Christmas tree is a decorated evergreen coniferous tree, real or artificial, and a tradition associated with the celebration of Christmas. The tradition of decorating an evergreen tree at Christmas started in Livonia and Germany in the 16th century...
lighting on Advent Sunday
Advent Sunday
Advent Sunday is the first day of the liturgical year in the Western Christian churches. It also marks the start of the season of Advent. In the Roman Catholic, Lutheran, Anglican, and Methodist churches the celebrant wears violet-coloured or blue vestments on this day, and the first violet or blue...
.
In addition to these regular traditions, the band has launched a number of projects cooperating with soloist singers and musicians, choirs and other bands. Below is the list of recent projects:
- Verden i Brønnøy ("The world in Brønnøy") - world musicWorld musicWorld music is a term with widely varying definitions, often encompassing music which is primarily identified as another genre. This is evidenced by world music definitions such as "all of the music in the world" or "somebody else's local music"...
concert together with artist from SenegalSenegalSenegal , officially the Republic of Senegal , is a country in western Africa. It owes its name to the Sénégal River that borders it to the east and north...
, Mexico, Sweden and Norway. Performance of African songs and music, Spanish guitar with flamencoFlamencoFlamenco is a genre of music and dance which has its foundation in Andalusian music and dance and in whose evolution Andalusian Gypsies played an important part....
dancing, samiSami peopleThe Sami people, also spelled Sámi, or Saami, are the arctic indigenous people inhabiting Sápmi, which today encompasses parts of far northern Sweden, Norway, Finland, the Kola Peninsula of Russia, and the border area between south and middle Sweden and Norway. The Sámi are Europe’s northernmost...
yoikYoikA joik, , luohti, vuolle, leu'dd, or juoiggus is a traditional Sami form of song.Originally, joik referred to only one of several Sami singing styles, but in English the word is often used to refer to all types of traditional Sami singing...
, Mexican singing and percussion. The concert was an integral part of the Torghattfestivalen 2009. - ¡Escucha! - en latinamerikansk reise ("Latin-american travel") with artist from Latin America and Canada, concert at the Torghattfestivalen 2007
- Minnenas Hotell ("Hotel of memories") - Gunnar Pedersen with friends, concert November 2006: Åge AleksandersenÅge AleksandersenÅge Aleksandersen is a Norwegian singer, songwriter and guitarist. He is one of his country's most famous singer/songwriters, musicians....
, Elisabeth Moberg, Thomas Brøndbo - Musical concert April 2006
- Jonas Knutsson kvartett - August 2005
- Lipstick - fra rockens barndom ("from rock childhood") - Autumn 2004 and Torghattfestivalen 2005
- Änglar ("Angles") - Spring 2004
- Total Balalaika - Spring 2003
- På loffen i Astrid LindgrenAstrid LindgrenAstrid Anna Emilia Lindgren , 14 November 1907 – 28 January 2002) was a Swedish author and screenwriter who is the world's 25th most translated author and has sold roughly 145 million copies worldwide...
s verden ("Vagabonding in the world of Astrid Lindgren") - Autumn 2001 - James BondJames BondJames Bond, code name 007, is a fictional character created in 1953 by writer Ian Fleming, who featured him in twelve novels and two short story collections. There have been a six other authors who wrote authorised Bond novels or novelizations after Fleming's death in 1964: Kingsley Amis,...
- Autumn 2000 - Lipstick on Your CollarLipstick on Your Collar (song)"Lipstick on Your Collar" is a song written by Edna Lewis and George Goehring which was a 1959 hit single for Connie Francis.Francis recorded the song 15 April 1959 in a session at Metropolitan Studio produced and conducted by Ray Ellis...
- Autumn 1999
Church concerts
In 2008 and 2009 BMK has performed church concerts in November in Brønnøy churchBrønnøy Church
Brønnøy Church is a parish church in the municipality of Brønnøy in Nordland county, Norway. It is located in the town of Brønnøysund. The church is part of the Brønnøy parish in the Sør-Helgeland deanery in the Diocese of Sør-Hålogaland. The stone church building was built in 1870 on the...
, with the intent of making it a tradition.
The repertoire has been selected from the classical
Classical music
Classical music is the art music produced in, or rooted in, the traditions of Western liturgical and secular music, encompassing a broad period from roughly the 11th century to present times...
"literature", mixed with Christmas music
Christmas music
Christmas music comprises a variety of genres of music normally performed or heard around the Christmas season, which tends to begin in the months leading up the actual holiday and end in the weeks shortly thereafter.-Early:...
, as a warm-up to the imminent advent
Advent
Advent is a season observed in many Western Christian churches, a time of expectant waiting and preparation for the celebration of the Nativity of Jesus at Christmas. It is the beginning of the Western liturgical year and commences on Advent Sunday, called Levavi...
.
Some of the concert pieces have been accompanied by the new church organ.
Repertoire of 2009:
- Fanfare for Canterbury CathedralCanterbury CathedralCanterbury Cathedral in Canterbury, Kent, is one of the oldest and most famous Christian structures in England and forms part of a World Heritage Site....
(David SampsonDavid S. SampsonDavid Sampson is a prolific composer and trumpet player currently living in New Jersey. He is currently Composer-in-Residence with the Colonial Symphony Orchestra and plays with them as well....
) - Organ: Elena Ebbesen - Hos Gud er Idel Glede ("With God there is mere joy") (Folk musicFolk musicFolk music is an English term encompassing both traditional folk music and contemporary folk music. The term originated in the 19th century. Traditional folk music has been defined in several ways: as music transmitted by mouth, as music of the lower classes, and as music with unknown composers....
from SelbuSelbuSelbu is a municipality in Sør-Trøndelag county, Norway. The administrative centre of the municipality is the village of Mebonden. Other villages in Selbu include Flora, Fossan, Hyttbakken, Innbygda, Selbustrand, Tømra, and Vikvarvet.-General information:...
, Norway) - Pelle på Molnet ("Pelle on the cloud") (Jonas Knutsson) - ClarinetClarinetThe clarinet is a musical instrument of woodwind type. The name derives from adding the suffix -et to the Italian word clarino , as the first clarinets had a strident tone similar to that of a trumpet. The instrument has an approximately cylindrical bore, and uses a single reed...
soloist: Rolf Arve Wold - Canon (Johann PachelbelJohann PachelbelJohann Pachelbel was a German Baroque composer, organist and teacher, who brought the south German organ tradition to its peak. He composed a large body of sacred and secular music, and his contributions to the development of the chorale prelude and fugue have earned him a place among the most...
) - Dies IraeDies IraeDies Irae is a thirteenth century Latin hymn thought to be written by Thomas of Celano . It is a medieval Latin poem characterized by its accentual stress and its rhymed lines. The metre is trochaic...
from Requiem (Giuseppe VerdiGiuseppe VerdiGiuseppe Fortunino Francesco Verdi was an Italian Romantic composer, mainly of opera. He was one of the most influential composers of the 19th century...
) - Rennessance suite (Various composers)
- Carmen (excerpts) (Georges BizetGeorges BizetGeorges Bizet formally Alexandre César Léopold Bizet, was a French composer, mainly of operas. In a career cut short by his early death, he achieved few successes before his final work, Carmen, became one of the most popular and frequently performed works in the entire opera repertory.During a...
) - Funeral March (Frédéric ChopinFrédéric ChopinFrédéric François Chopin was a Polish composer and virtuoso pianist. He is considered one of the great masters of Romantic music and has been called "the poet of the piano"....
) - Second Concerto for Clarinet (Carl Maria von WeberCarl Maria von WeberCarl Maria Friedrich Ernst von Weber was a German composer, conductor, pianist, guitarist and critic, one of the first significant composers of the Romantic school....
) - Clarinet soloist: Bera Skorpen - Toccata & Fugue in D minor (Johann Sebastian BachJohann Sebastian BachJohann Sebastian Bach was a German composer, organist, harpsichordist, violist, and violinist whose sacred and secular works for choir, orchestra, and solo instruments drew together the strands of the Baroque period and brought it to its ultimate maturity...
) - Organ soloist: Elena Ebbesen - Theme from Schindler's ListSchindler's ListSchindler's List is a 1993 American film about Oskar Schindler, a German businessman who saved the lives of more than a thousand mostly Polish-Jewish refugees during the Holocaust by employing them in his factories. The film was directed by Steven Spielberg, and based on the novel Schindler's Ark...
(John WilliamsJohn WilliamsJohn Towner Williams is an American composer, conductor, and pianist. In a career spanning almost six decades, he has composed some of the most recognizable film scores in the history of motion pictures, including the Star Wars saga, Jaws, Superman, the Indiana Jones films, E.T...
) - Clarinet soloist: Rolf Arve Wold - Peludium from Te DeumTe DeumThe Te Deum is an early Christian hymn of praise. The title is taken from its opening Latin words, Te Deum laudamus, rendered literally as "Thee, O God, we praise"....
(Marc-Antoine CharpentierMarc-Antoine CharpentierMarc-Antoine Charpentier, , was a French composer of the Baroque era.Exceptionally prolific and versatile, he produced compositions of the highest quality in several genres...
) - Organ: Elena Ebbesen - Jesu, Joy of Man's DesiringJesu, Joy of Man's DesiringJesu, Joy of Man's Desiring is the most common English title of the 10th movement of the cantata Herz und Mund und Tat und Leben, BWV 147 composed by Johann Sebastian Bach. A transcription by the English pianist Myra Hess was published in 1926 for piano solo and in 1934 for piano duet...
(Johann Sebastian Bach) - Organ: Elena Ebbesen - PavanePavane (Fauré)The Pavane in F-sharp minor, Op. 50, is a composition by the French composer Gabriel Fauré, written in 1887. It was originally a piano piece, but is better known in Fauré's version for orchestra and optional chorus...
, op. 50 (Gabriel FauréGabriel FauréGabriel Urbain Fauré was a French composer, organist, pianist and teacher. He was one of the foremost French composers of his generation, and his musical style influenced many 20th century composers...
) - Deilig er Jorden ("Schönster Herr Jesu") (SilesiaSilesiaSilesia is a historical region of Central Europe located mostly in Poland, with smaller parts also in the Czech Republic, and Germany.Silesia is rich in mineral and natural resources, and includes several important industrial areas. Silesia's largest city and historical capital is Wrocław...
n folk music / arr. Bernhard Severin IngemannBernhard Severin IngemannBernhard Severin Ingemann was a Danish novelist and poet.Ingemann was born in Thorkildstrup, on the island of Falster, Denmark. The son of a vicar, he was left fatherless in his youth. While a student at the University of Copenhagen he published his first collection of poems Bernhard Severin...
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