The autumn’s events begin with a European guest performance as our own ensembles welcome the German national youth choir, Bundesjugendchor, (14 September). A little later in the autumn, yet another first-class performance awaits when the distinguished S:t Jacobs Vocal Ensemble from Stockholm visit the Lund Choral Festival (19 October).
On 21 September, as part of Lund Culture Night, visitors can have a go at directing a choir and listen to lectures and conversations including musical performances about the connection between postmodernism and music as well as the artistry of composer Eugène Ysaÿes. For two days in early October, Odeum will focus on postmodernism and its links to music and other artistic forms. What is postmodernism anyway, and why has the concept reappeared in the public debate once again? To help find out, we will be joined by author Lena Andersson (2 October), and then by Expressen’s Arts Editor Victor Malm and Professor Max Liljefors (3 October).
This year also marks fifteen years since one of Odeum’s choirs, Palaestra Vocal Ensemble was founded. We will celebrate this with a concert on 13 October, featuring music from the choir’s repertoire over the past fifteen years under the direction of Conductor Cecilia Martin Löf.
Don't miss Franz Liszt's “Études d'exécution transcendante” on 26 September, or the last Thursday Talk of the year, where new music by composer David Riebe, with links to San Michele in Capri, will be premiered alongside a conversation with cultural journalist and curator Kristina Kappelin, among others (26 October). As usual, students from the Malmö Academy of Music will give lunch concerts, Kvartöver, in Kapellsalen (11 October and 15 November).
The autumn concludes with the traditional Odeum Christmas and Lucia concerts, featuring the Lund Academic Choir and the Lund University Academic Orchestra to set the mood ahead of the approaching holidays as well as Palaestra Vocal Ensemble’s concert including Cantatas 4-6 of one of Christmas time’s most essential spiritual works, Johann Sebastian Bach’s “Christmas Oratorio” (19 December).
Check Odeum’s website this autumn for updates. You can pick up a printed version of the autumn programme from the foyer at Palaestra et Odeum.
A warm welcome to Odeum’s autumn events!
Read more about Odeum’s full series of events (in Swedish)