The Next Concert at the National Gallery of Art

National Gallery Orchestra

Hobart Earle, guest conductor

Viennese New Year Concert

January 7, 2007

Sunday Evening, 6:30 pm

West Building, West Garden Court

For the convenience of concertgoers 

the Garden Cafe remains open until 6:00 pm.

The use of cameras or recording equipment during the 

performance is not allowed. Please be sure that cell phones,

pagers, and other electronic devices are turned off.

Please note that late entry or reentry of

the West Building after 6:30 pm is not permitted.

Music Department

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The Sixty-fifth Season of

The William Nelson Cromwell and F. Lammot Belin

Concerts

“Sixty-five, but not retiring”

National Gallery of Art

2,597th Concert

Nordic Voices

Presented in connection with the

Norwegian Christmas Festival at Union Station

December 17, 2006

Sunday Evening, 6:30 pm

West Building, West Garden Court

Admissionfree
Program

Francis Poulenc (1899-1963)

Exultate Deo

Alice Tegner (1864-1943)

Gians over sjo och strand

Bjarne Slogedal (b. 1927)

For Gudsfolk er hvilen tilbake

Pierre de Manchicourt

(c. 1510-1564)

Laudate Dominum

Frank Flavroy (b. 1969)

Bansull

Hugo Distler (1908-1942)

Es ist ein Ros’ entsprungen

Henrik 0degaard (b. 1955)

O Magnum Mysterium

INTERMISSION

Jacob Clemens non Papa 

(c. 1510-c. 1556)

O Magnum Mysterium

Igor Stravinsky (1882-1971)

Pater noster

Slogedal

Herre Jesus, gi meg ndde

Guillaume Dufay (1397-1474)

Ecclesie militantis

Havroy

Bysjan

Anonymous

Christmas song from Breslau: 

Deilig erjorden

Poulenc

O Magnum Mysterium

The Musicians

Nordic Voices is a six-voice ensemble whose a cappella singing blends the

techniques ofthe soloist and the choral singer, and whose interpretations

are at the same time sophisticated and playfully affectionate. The group’s

vast repertoire ranges from medieval to modern music, featuring works

by Orlando di Lasso (1532-1594) and Claudio Monteverdi (1567-1643) to

Gyorgy Ligeti (1923-2006) and Olivier Messiaen (1908-1992). Since its 

formation in 1996, Nordic Voices has toured extensively in Norway and

abroad, performing at major festivals and in prestigious concert series.

One of Norway’s best-loved ensembles, it appears frequently on radio and

television as well. It has performed in more than ten countries outside

Norway, including the United States, where it has concertized in Maine,

Georgia, and Minnesota.

Nordic Voices has commissioned and performed many new works and

has generated several interdisciplinary projects, including a musical accompaniment to a film projection ofpaintings by Henry Darger and Joe Coleman at the Bergen International Festival; performances with the Norwegian

National Ballet of a new work titled Kyrie and Gloria, written for the ensemble

by the Norwegian composer Gisle Kverndokk; a documentary music video

by composer Lars Petter Hagen; and a series of concerts titled “The Chamber Tone ofthe Body,” produced in collaboration with jazz pianist Mikhail

Alperin and Norwegian author Lars Saabye Christensen.

The members of Nordic Voices are Ingrid Hanken, Tone Elisabeth

Braaten, Ebba Rydh, Per Kristian Amundrod, Frank Havroy, and Trond Olav

Reinholdtsen. The singers were educated at the Norwegian Academy of

Music and the National Academy of Operatic Art, both in Oslo, where they 

specialized in opera, composition, church music, choir conducting, and

pedagogy. Nordic Voices appears at the National Gallery by arrangement

with Jonathan Wentworth Associates, Ltd., of Mount Vernon, New York.

This conceit is made possible in part by supportfrom the Royal Norwegian Embassy.