Wellbeing Art-Poor Wellbeing Art at the Cable Factory 20.9. at 19:00

What elements do you need to strip away from art to make it a welfare art? The quacks are already justifying their companies.

Avanti! continues his series of political concerts, and in September he will perform for the first time in a long time at his home in the Cable Factory. The theme of the concert takes a humorous but serious look at the relationship between the welfare society and art. “Welfare Art-Poor Welfare Art” plays at the Merikaapel Hall on Tuesday 20 September at 19:00.

Conducted by conductor Jaakko Kuusisto , Avant’s soloists include singers Johanna Rusanen, Petri Bäckström and Jaakko Kortekangas.

The concert asks whether art can help when the welfare state is in a bad way. Culture is being cut, but the art of care is being invested in. Can welfare music be played in a minor key, should it be harmless and simple? Or is it independent and free art that is welfare?

See more information about the concert here.
Tickets 27,50/17,50€ www.lippu.fi

The Sound of Welfare 20.9.2016

Tue 20.9.2016 at 7 pm
Cable Factory, Merikaapelihalli

Avanti! Chamber Orchestra
Jaakko Kuusisto, conductor
Johanna Rusanen-Kartano, vocal
Jaakko Kortekangas, vocal
Petri Bäckström, vocal
Otaniemi Kaiku, choir
Pasi Heikura, host

The welfare state has taken ill as the commonplace goes. Can art provide the remedy?
Simultaneously with cuts being introduced, arts are being hailed as a form of therapy and funded with this end in mind. But should welfare music be cheery and simple? Can it be played in minor or does this fail to produce the greatest happiness to the greatest number? Could it be that a sign of true social welfare is art that is autonomous and free from all predetermined purposes?

It is a fact that music can cure many ills. Numerous studies have shown the positive effect of music on intelligence, learning and happiness. Of course, music may also allure you to deviate from the straight and narrow. In this concert, Avanti will both indulge in warning examples and demonstrate music’s healing power.

Carl Nielsen: At the Beer of a Young Artist op. 58
Giuseppe Verdi: Traviata. Act lll, prelude
Eduard Hermes: The Forest Man’s Drinking Song
Francis Poulenc: Banalités, No. 2, Hôtel
Kirmo Lintinen: Fitness opera, Leon aria
René Leibowitz: Marijuana variations non sériéuses
Franz Schubert: Erlkönig
W.A.Mozart: Bastien and Bastienne, aria “Diggi, Daggi, Shurry, Murry…”

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Peter Maxwell Davies: Eight songs for a mad king, No. 1, The Sentry
Hildegard von Bingen: Ovirtus Sapientiae
Marain Marais: Gallstone surgery
Pyotr Tchaikovsky: Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy
Sean Beeson: Music for the treatment
W.A.Mozart: Symphony no 34 in C major, K 338 Allegro vivace, Andante di molto (piu tosto allegretto), Finale: Allegro vivace

Tickets €27.50 / €17.50, www.lippu.fi

Lotta Wennäkoski plans Avant’s Summer Play 2017

Suvisoitto_Lotta W_3Composer Lotta Wennäkoski is planning the XXXII Avanti! Summer Concert. The 2016 Summer Play attracted around 3000 people to a total of fourteen concerts or events in Porvoo and Pernaja.

Lotta Wennäkoski was the artistic designer of the Tampere Biennale in 2008-2010 and the seasonal composer of the Tapiola Sinfonietta in 2010-2011. Her compositions have been widely performed in Finnish and international concert halls and festivals, including Helsinki Festival, Musica Nova, Märzmusik Berlin, Warsaw Syksy, Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival and Other Minds. Wennäkoski has also composed commissioned works for the Radio Symphony Orchestra and the Scottish Chamber Orchestra.“The invitation to be the artistic designer of Suvisoito came as a flattering surprise. It is a great opportunity for me to design a festival that will feature chamber, orchestral, contemporary and classical music. What a lot you can invent!” says Wennäkoski.

The Suvisoito, which ended on Sunday 3 July, was designed by Dima Slobodeniouk, a Finnish conductor born in Moscow. Over the five days, a total of 14 concerts or events were organised in Porvoo and Pernaja, including six free events around Porvoo. In total, the festival attracted around 3000 people. The festival buses again transported the audience from Helsinki to Taidetehta and back.

The main sponsors of the festival were the City of Porvoo, Aktiasäätiö Porvoo, Neste, Porvoo Art Factory and Svenska kulturfonden.

Avanti! thanks its audience and supporters, and wishes a happy summer to all its friends!

Gamballa Kapakkaan 31.10.2016

Mon 31.10.2016 at 19:00
G LIVELAB -club (Pieni Roobertinkatu 16, Helsinki)

Jukka Rautasalo, music direction and viola da gamba
Tuuli Lindeberg, soprano
Anthony Marini, violin and tenor viola
Ilkka Heinonen, horn and violone
Matias Häkkinen, harpsichord and harmonium

In Kapaka, you may be joined by drunken sailors and swaggering whores. Drunken mercenaries and brawlers should be identified immediately and avoided. Pickpockets, beggars and swindlers are also on the move.

In downtown pubs, reputable musicians organise a different kind of evening. The musicians find a public space in the taverns that is beyond the influence of the courts and the church. The Mitre Inn in London and Zimmermann’s coffee house in Leipzig are the stage for a new form of gathering, the public concert.

This was the case in the 17th century, the golden age of the gamba. In October in Helsinki, we’ll be coming to a tavern with gambas to see what kind of company we’ve found ourselves in. That’s where our music begins!

Music: Henry Purcell, John Eccles, Orlando Gibbons, Tobias Hume, Olli Virtaperko, as well as folk songs and beggar opera.

Tickets 20 / 15 € from http://www.glivelab.fi/

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Rite 18.4.2016

Mon 18.4.2016 at 19
Temppeliaukio Church

Chamber Orchestra Avanti!
Juho Laitinen, cello
Tomas Djupsjöbacka, conductor

Giacinto Scelsi: Quattro pezzi per tromba sola I
Henry Purcell: The Queen’s Funeral March
Pierre Henry: Variations pour une porte et un soupir: 4. Eveil
Jukka Tiensuu: Kalasi
Pierre Henry: Variations pour une porte et un soupir: 8. Comptine
Henry Purcell: Pavane & Chacony
Otto Luening: Low Speed
Giacinto Scelsi: Quattro pezzi per tromba sola II
Marin Marais: Sonnerie de Ste-Geneviève du Mont de Paris
Jukka Tiensuu: Concerto for electronic cello and ensemble

Music embraces all that the human needs. From nursery rhyme to funeral and resurrection. Quickening, quietening, celebrating, surrendering. An electrifying cello, brilliant trumpets. Dancing, sighing and the peeling of bells. Age-old and contemporary in sweet symbiosis. (Jukka Tiensuu)

“Participation in rites integrates the individual into a social order both in one’s day-to-day relationships of life and in those celebrations of the collective which bind [one] to the social entity as a whole,” as the anthropologist Émile Durkheim once put it. The same could be said of Avanti’s Rite concert, stretching from ceremonious Baroque to futuristic celebration, and preparing the listener for the birth of the new electronic cello concerto by Jukka Tiensuu.

Wellbeing Art-Poor Wellbeing Art 20.9.2016

Tue 20.9.2016 at 19.00
Cable Factory, Submarine Cable Hall

Avanti!
Jaakko Kuusisto, conductor
Johanna Rusanen-Kartano, vocals
Jaakko Kortekangas, vocals
Petri Bäckström, vocals
Otaniemi Kaiku
Arto Vainio, bodybuilder
Pasi Heikura, plot

The welfare society is in a bad way, but could art help? Culture is being cut, but the art of care is being invested in. Can you play wellness music in a minor key, does it have to be harmless and simple? Or is it independent and free art that is welfare?

The concert begins with the diseases, vices and corpses. From the deathbed of a young artist, the story continues through lung disease to the Forest Man’s drinking song and the time when smoking was seen to have health benefits. The music takes a stand against gluttony and obesity, describes the hallucinations brought on by drugs, and mourns the death of a child who dies in his father’s arms when it is too far to get to a clinic. In the second half, the music will be care music. On stage, you’ll witness a urinary stone operation, hear how King George III reacts when he’s taken to a mental hospital, and enjoy some feel-good medieval church music. Among other things, the…

Music really is a cure for many ailments. According to researchers, music can boost intelligence, enhance learning and increase happiness. Music can also tempt you into bad ways and unhealthy habits. Avanti’s concert will provide cautionary tales, but also integrity and improvement. Come to an Avant concert and leave a better person!

 

Tickets including delivery 27,50 / 17,50 €, www.lippu.fi

 

PROGRAMME

Carl Nielsen: At the Beer of a Young Artist op. 58
Giuseppe Verdi: Traviata. Act lll, prelude
Eduard Hermes: Forest Man’s Drinking Song
Francis Poulenc: Banalités, No 2, Hôtel
Kirmo Lintinen: Fitness opera, Leon aria
René Leibowitz: Marihuana variations non sériéuses
Franz Schubert: Erlkönig
W.A.Mozart: Bastien and Bastienne, aria “Diggi, Daggi, Shurry, Murry…”

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Peter Maxwell Davies: Eight songs for a mad king, No. 1, The Sentry
Hildegard von Bingen: Ovirtus Sapientiae
Marain Marais: Urolithotomy
Pyotr Tchaikovsky: Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy
Sean Beeson: Caring Music
W.A.Mozart: Symphony no 34 in C major, K 338 Allegro vivace, Andante di molto (piu tosto allegretto), Finale: Allegro vivace

Avanti! XXX Summer Sounds – Idyll / Wed-Sun June 24-28, Porvoo, Finland

The Avanti! Summer Sounds festival will be celebrating its 30th anniversary on June 24-28, 2015. This year, the artistic planning of the five-day musical event is the responsibility of German conductor-composer Matthias Pintscher. The festival programme, titled Idyll, will consist of 14 concerts or events. Some of these will be held in local restaurants, and new this year are the club nights providing post-concert entertainment.

Festival program and ticket info here!