Weyse Festival 2024: The Theater
THE VERSATILE WEYSE
Concerto Copenhagen and the Royal Danish Music Conservatory will celebrate Weyse's 250th anniversary. Through drama, storytelling, talks, and various concert formats with over 100 performers, the focus will be on the composer, his personality, and his contemporaries. focus.
It will be the biggest celebration yet of a composer whom we know well in small doses, but whom we will now experience in all his breadth.
There is hardly a schoolchild in Denmark today who is not familiar with Weyse's melodies. Julen har bragt velsignet bud (Christmas has brought blessed tidings), I østen stiger solen op (The sun rises in the east), Det er så yndigt (It is so lovely) and Nu titte til hinanden (Now look at each other)are songs that have become part of Danish cultural heritage. Unfortunately, Weyse's versatility as a composer is still overlooked today, with very few people familiar with his symphonies, singspiele, and cantatas. However, in a major collaboration between Concerto Copenhagen and the Royal Danish Academy of Music, it is precisely this multifaceted composer who is being brought to the stage.
One composer – three different concerts
We will have the opportunity to hear Weyse in all his breadth and in various formats, appealing to children, young people, and adults alike. For this year's celebration, we have carefully selected music from Weyse's versatile oeuvre and put it together in three main concerts under the headings: The Church, The Salon, and The Theater. Weyse's instrumental works, excerpts from cantatas and singspiele, hymns, songs, and his entire first symphony are on the program when Concerto Copenhagen, conducted by Lars Ulrik Mortensen, students from the Royal Danish Academy of Music, and the Academy's children's choir join forces for a full day of tribute to one of the most significant composers in Danish music history.
Program for the day:
1:00-2:15 p.m.: Concert – "Weyse and the Church"
2:30-3:15 p.m.:Talk between PhD and associate professor of musicology at the University of Copenhagen
Jens Hesselager and director and playwright Johan Klint Sandberg
4:00-5:15 p.m. Concert – “Weyse and the Salon”
17:30–18:15 Book launch and reception at Multivers Publishing House in honor of Jens
Hesselager’s new book about Weyse
19:00–20:15 Concert – “Weyse and the Theater”
In addition to three different concert formats, actors Emil Knutzon, Signe Thielsen, and Minna Flyvholm, directed by Johan Klint Sandberg, take you closer to the man behind the music we all know—Christoph Ernst Friedrich Weyse!
“I would like to tell the story of a young artist who believes so strongly in music as a form of interpersonal communication that he fails to notice that he is being overtaken by the romantic future. In many ways, the 1820s are somewhat reminiscent of the 2020s, and MON to ask whether Weyse represents a break between the intellectual and the physical in a way that we can mirror in today's polarizing cultural debate." -Johan Klint Sandberg
In true festival style, between concerts you can treat your taste buds to food from Ristet Rug's food truck and enjoy cold refreshments at the open bar with wine, beer, and water.
We look forward to welcoming you to the concert hall at the Royal Danish Academy of Music. We strive to offer good accessibility, but due to special preservation and building conditions, there are certain limitations. Read more here.
THE VERSATILE WEYSE
Concerto Copenhagen and the Royal Danish Music Conservatory will celebrate Weyse's 250th anniversary. Through drama, storytelling, talks, and various concert formats with over 100 performers, the focus will be on the composer, his personality, and his contemporaries. focus.
It will be the biggest celebration yet of a composer whom we know well in small doses, but whom we will now experience in all his breadth.
There is hardly a schoolchild in Denmark today who is not familiar with Weyse's melodies. Julen har bragt velsignet bud (Christmas has brought blessed tidings), I østen stiger solen op (The sun rises in the east), Det er så yndigt (It is so lovely) and Nu titte til hinanden (Now look at each other)are songs that have become part of Danish cultural heritage. Unfortunately, Weyse's versatility as a composer is still overlooked today, with very few people familiar with his symphonies, singspiele, and cantatas. However, in a major collaboration between Concerto Copenhagen and the Royal Danish Academy of Music, it is precisely this multifaceted composer who is being brought to the stage.
One composer – three different concerts
We will have the opportunity to hear Weyse in all his breadth and in various formats, appealing to children, young people, and adults alike. For this year's celebration, we have carefully selected music from Weyse's versatile oeuvre and put it together in three main concerts under the headings: The Church, The Salon, and The Theater. Weyse's instrumental works, excerpts from cantatas and singspiele, hymns, songs, and his entire first symphony are on the program when Concerto Copenhagen, conducted by Lars Ulrik Mortensen, students from the Royal Danish Academy of Music, and the Academy's children's choir join forces for a full day of tribute to one of the most significant composers in Danish music history.
Program for the day:
1:00-2:15 p.m.: Concert – "Weyse and the Church"
2:30-3:15 p.m.:Talk between PhD and associate professor of musicology at the University of Copenhagen
Jens Hesselager and director and playwright Johan Klint Sandberg
4:00-5:15 p.m. Concert – “Weyse and the Salon”
17:30–18:15 Book launch and reception at Multivers Publishing House in honor of Jens
Hesselager’s new book about Weyse
19:00–20:15 Concert – “Weyse and the Theater”
In addition to three different concert formats, actors Emil Knutzon, Signe Thielsen, and Minna Flyvholm, directed by Johan Klint Sandberg, take you closer to the man behind the music we all know—Christoph Ernst Friedrich Weyse!
“I would like to tell the story of a young artist who believes so strongly in music as a form of interpersonal communication that he fails to notice that he is being overtaken by the romantic future. In many ways, the 1820s are somewhat reminiscent of the 2020s, and MON to ask whether Weyse represents a break between the intellectual and the physical in a way that we can mirror in today's polarizing cultural debate." -Johan Klint Sandberg
In true festival style, between concerts you can treat your taste buds to food from Ristet Rug's food truck and enjoy cold refreshments at the open bar with wine, beer, and water.
We look forward to welcoming you to the concert hall at the Royal Danish Academy of Music. We strive to offer good accessibility, but due to special preservation and building conditions, there are certain limitations. Read more here.
PROGRAM
C.E.F. Weyse (1774-1842)
from the opera Ludlam's Cave ( 1816)
– overture
Fromthe musical drama Sovedrikken (1809)
– Romance “De klare bølger”
– Aria “Fra orient til Occident”
– Romance “Skøn Jomfru, luk dit vindue op”
– Aria “Det blanke sværd”
– Quintet “Oh, hr Brausse”
from the singspiel The Feast at Kenilworth (1836)
– The Shepherd Grazes His Sheep
from the music for Macbeth ( 1826)
– The Song of the Watchman
from 8 Evening Songs for Choir (1838)
Experience Weyse's overture to the musicalLudlam's Cave for the first time in almost 200 yearsat today's final concert, 'The Theater'.
Weyse collaborated with H.C. Andersen, Adam Oehlenschläger, and especially J.L. Heiberg on plays. C.E.F. Weyse, known as a humorist, excelled in comic musicals, where the plot took a back seat to a colorful cast of characters and entertaining musical and dramatic expressions.
In addition to LudLam's Cave, the concert atthe theaterwill also feature music from Weyse's perhaps best-known musical drama,Sovedrikken, as well as excerpts fromFesten på KenilworthandMacbeth.
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