String Orchestra
(Orchestra)
SKU:
HL.14023345
Composed
by Per Norgard. Music
Sales America.
TV-Film-Musical-Show.
Score. Composed 2012. 12
pages. Edition Wilhelm
Hansen #WH30498.
Published by Edition
Wilhelm Hansen
(HL.14023345).
ISBN
9788759810620. UPC:
884088444105.
11.75x16.75x0.098 inches.
International (more than
one
language).
Version
for string orchestra(the
original version from
1997 is for string
trio)Duration: ca. 6
min.Parts are for hire:
hire@ewh.dkPreface l
Programme N o teMy
PASTORALE is
melodicallyutterly
simple, almost
ear-catching. The
simplicity stems frommy
hymn-tune JERUSALEM, the
theme ofwhich permeates
my ineideutal music for
Oscarwinningfilm (Best F
oreign Film.1987),
BABETTE' S FEAST, by
Danish director
GabrielAxeLThe film is
based on a shortstory by
another reknown Dane,
Karen Blixen, i t is the
story o f twosisters who
aremernhers o f a very
Puritan congregation, but
deeide to have a hig
feast of
earthly(gastronomic)
delights, the PASTORALE
is heard during the
sumptuousmeal.Bel o w the
song-like surface of my
PASTORALE the metrical
implications arerather
ambiguous,the changes
between marked and
un-marked beats forces
the ear to perceive a
phrase to beo nthe beat
at one moment, and offthe
beat at the next moment.
In this w a y, the simple
lines o flyrical pastoral
serenity conjure the
listener to be lulled
into an artificial
Paradise, which is
exactlythe mood ofthe
guests at the banquet,
the feast, in the central
scene ofthe movie.The
original PASTORALE is
scored for string trio,
the present version for
string orchestra
camealong in 1988 and was
premieredin New York City
that year.Per Norgard,
1999.