Denmark’s Organ Dilemma – Abundant Instruments, Decreasing Organists
Feature
July 29 2024
From Jesuskirken. Photo: Maite Cintron
By Maite Cintron
Around Denmark you can find an awful lot of churches, remnants of a once much more religious past. As religion for many has lost its initial significance within Danish society, and more so in Copenhagen, many of these buildings have evolved and come to have new meanings within the city. For example, you can now ...
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Organ Sound Art Festival – adventurous organs in contemporary music
Blog
January 10 2024
Report by Mikkel Schou, photo by Ross Adams
Finding out what the yearly Organ Sound Art festival is about is actually hard. Beyond social media marketing and the year’s program, there’s not much information online. A casual glance at the program reveals that the scope of the festival is ambitious. Premiers of newly commissioned works every day are presented together with a host of ...
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Mens vi venter på Apokalypsen – Refleksioner over musikkens år i 2022
Blog
January 16 2023
Af Andreas Korsgaard Rasmussen
Jeg er ikke typen, der bogfører min lytning. Alligevel ved jeg, at 2022 i overvældende grad har været præget af jamaicansk musik fra rundt regnet 1970-1980, eller mere præcist: reggae. The Abyssinnians, Burning Spear, Lee Scratch Perry, The Congos, Culture, Yabby You, Wailing Souls, Hugh Mundell, Count Ossie, King Tubby, Scientist, Horace Andy, Ras Michael – og så videre. Reggaens facisnationskraft lader til at ...
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