The joint concert of three top orchestras – Chamber Orchestra Avant, UMO Helsinki Jazz Orchestra and Finnish Baroque Orchestra FiBO – at the Helsinki Music Centre on Tue 15 September will undergo changes to ensure a safe concert experience for the audience, musicians and staff alike.
The concert’s intermission and pre-registration will be cancelled. The concert starts at 19:00 and ends at approximately 20:30.
UMO Helsinki Jazz Orchestra’s repertoire will be changed and the size of the orchestra will be reduced to allow for a performance without intermission and to allow for safety clearances for the musicians in the backstage area. The Avant and FiBO programmes will remain unchanged. Read more details about the programme below.
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How does a recycled refrain sound on a foley artist’s kiosk, what does Vivaldi sound like in a minimalist remix version and what links can be found between the works in the concert and the world of cinema?
UMO Helsinki Duo and film music from two eras
The original repertoire of the UMO Helsinki Jazz Orchestra will change. Instead of a big band ensemble, the duo Kasperi Sarikoski (trombone) and Seppo Kantonen (piano) from UMO Helsinki will perform film music from two different eras.
The UMO Helsinki Duo will open the concert with Bob Telson’s Calling You (1987) from the film Bagdad Cafe. Originally recorded by Jevetta Steele and later covered by Celine Dion, Natalie Cole, Paul Young and others, this delicate ballad is reborn in a union of trombone and piano.
From bazaar ballad to 1920s jazz with Black and Tan Fantasy (1927) by Duke Ellington and James “Bubber” Miley. This early Ellington work, in which Miley’s melodic ideas are unleashed, was later used in the short film Black and Tan.
Chamber Orchestra Avanti! and the world’s first foley concert
Sami Klemola’s composition Jack and the Specifics is written for foley artist and chamber orchestra. The composer explains: “Exploring the interfaces and points of contact between the arts has long been an interest of mine. The combination of the sound arts, sound art (broadly speaking) and concert music, creates interesting friction situations, with the friction that forms at the interfaces providing energy, intensity and new directions for my compositional work.”
The work is reportedly the first time that the solo parts of a concerto have been written for a foley artist, in this case Heikki Koss. Kossi is a sound artist who creates soundtracks for films, including footsteps and creaking doors. Kossi has worked on dozens of Finnish films and has also enjoyed international success. Heikki Kossi performs foley sounds live in concert. There is a strong visual element as he brings along a huge kiosk full of stuff to produce the sounds. The piece also features dancer Emmi Pennanen.
Finnish baroque orchestra combines past and present
The distance between the past and the present is short – sometimes a hair’s breadth. A more familiar version of Vivaldi’s Four Seasons will be an ear-opener for baroque lovers as the Finnish Baroque Orchestra (FiBO) concludes the concert with Max Richter’s Four Seasons Recomposed, premiered in 2012. It models the Four Seasons concertos as minimalist remixes. Sometimes Vivaldi and Richter walk in lockstep, sometimes Richter jerks the music into an insightful angle or stretches it through repetition into cosmic baroque landscapes. The result of recolored harmonic bases and surfaces reminiscent of electronic sound mats is deafening and intelligently executed ambient Vivaldi. Antti Tikkanen and the Finnish Baroque Orchestra’s interpretation of the work will take FiBO to Central Europe next year, corona conditions permitting.
The concert is part of the AUF collaboration between the Avanti! chamber orchestra, the UMO Helsinki Jazz Orchestra and the Finnish Baroque Orchestra since autumn 2017.
Programme:
UMO Helsinki Duo: Kasperi Sarikoski & Seppo Kantonen
Bob Telson: Calling You (1987)
Duke Ellington & James “Bubber” Miley: Black Tan Fantasy (1927)
Chamber Orchestra Avanti!
Tomas Djupsjöbacka, conductor
Heikki Kossi, foley artist
Emmi Pennanen, dance
Sami Klemola: Jack and the Specifics (2017)
The Forest
Man in the Cabin
The Crash
Intermezzo
Friction
Underwater
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Tom, Jack and bipolar Jerry
Machina
Cadenza
Exit
Still life
Finnish Baroque Orchestra (FiBO)
Antti Tikkanen, violin
Max Richter: Four Seasons Recomposed (2012)
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