Erik Bergman News
Finnish composer (1911-2006)
- piano
- classical music
- Finland
- composer, conductor, choir director, music teacher
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2024-03-19
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2023-09-21 06:43:23
The family of Yaakov Bergman posted news of... The post Israeli conductor dies in US first appeared on Slippedisc. The post Israeli conductor dies in US appeared first on Slippedisc.
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2022-10-14 05:32:43
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2022-09-14 00:45:00
Smiles of a Sondheim Night
[…] Of course, with some effort, one could easily find a Bernsteinian infinite number of ways in which a three-note motif like this next one occurs in various contexts, but this thematic connection is a bit more magical because of the linked contexts.For various reasons, I found myself watching and listening to a few different versions of Sondheim's A Little Night Music late last week. This led me to watch Smiles of a Summer Night, the 1955 Bergman film on which Sondheim's 1973 musical is based. The Bergman film is not a musical, though it has an attractive soundtrack by Erik Nordgren. But I'll admit I wasn't paying close attention to the score.Lo and behold, at a particularly pivotal moment when the young Henrik storms out of a momentous dinner party, my ears were drawn to a little motif in the orchestra. I just made a mental note in the moment, but […]
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