{"id":999,"date":"2022-03-20T22:41:00","date_gmt":"2022-03-20T22:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staffansandstrom.se\/?p=999"},"modified":"2022-03-24T12:51:35","modified_gmt":"2022-03-24T12:51:35","slug":"the-unifying-force-of-music","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staffansandstrom.se\/?p=999","title":{"rendered":"The unifying                                force                                               of music"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Sunday 20 March 2022   <strong>The unifying force of music<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On Thursday, February the 24th this year, something unbelievable happened: Russia chose to launch a military invasion of Ukraine. At a time when we in Europe began to hope for an end of the pandemic years, war came to us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Exactly one week ago one of many concerts in favor of Ukraine was held in Hedvig Eleonora Church on \u00d6stermalm in Stockholm. Why I choose to write about this particular concert is that it was produced by a fellow student of mine from the time when I studied at the Royal College of Music in Stockholm in the 90s, and also that two of the participants were students from our Academy of Music and Opera, M\u00e4lardalen University. Ivetta Irkha is the one who created the concert; Ivetta is a prominent concert pianist with a fantastic energy, who was born and raised in Kharkiv in Ukraine. The stories I remember her telling me about her homeland have taken on a completely different meaning for me today, and the pictures that Ivetta publishes daily on social media shows the catastrophic consequences of the war.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The program presented on March the 13th was also represented by AMOMDU thanks to our artistic director and voice professor Lena Hellstr\u00f6m-F\u00e4rnl\u00f6f, who in dialogue with Ivetta arranged for two of the students from her class to perform the Ukrainian song&nbsp;<em>Plyv\u00e9 choven<\/em>&nbsp;by Ukrainian composer Mykola Lysenko.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There was an incredible turnout for the peace concert, and it is also recorded to listen to in its entirety:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The students who participated from AMOMDU were Emma \u00d6sterberg, mezzo-soprano and Minna T\u00e4gil, soprano.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<div class=\"jetpack-video-wrapper\"><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe class='youtube-player' type='text\/html' width='1200' height='705' src='https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/fzV_RJilN4g?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;fs=1&#038;autohide=2&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;wmode=transparent' allowfullscreen='true' style='border:0;'><\/iframe><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ukrainianartsong.ca\/composers-1-1-1\" target=\"_blank\">More about\u00a0Mykola Lysenko<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>S\u00f6ndagen den 20 mars 2022 <strong>Musikens f\u00f6renande kraft<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Torsdagen den 24 februari i \u00e5r skedde n\u00e5got ofattbart: Ryssland valde att inleda en milit\u00e4r invasion av Ukraina. I en tid d\u00e5 vi i Europa b\u00f6rjat ana ljus i slutet av pandemins tunnel, s\u00e5 kom \u00e4ven kriget till oss.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>F\u00f6r precis en vecka sedan h\u00f6lls en av m\u00e5nga konserter till f\u00f6rm\u00e5n f\u00f6r Ukraina i Hedvig Eleonora kyrka p\u00e5 \u00d6stermalm i Stockholm. Varf\u00f6r jag v\u00e4ljer att skriva om just denna konsert \u00e4r att den producerats av en studiekamrat till mig fr\u00e5n tiden d\u00e5 jag p\u00e5 90-talet studerade vid Kungliga Musikh\u00f6gskolan i Stockholm, samt att tv\u00e5 av de medverkande var studenter fr\u00e5n Musik- och operah\u00f6gskolan, M\u00e4lardalens universitet. Ivetta Irkha \u00e4r den som skapade konserten, och Ivetta \u00e4r inte bara en framst\u00e5ende konsertpianist med en fantastiskt energi, hon \u00e4r ocks\u00e5 f\u00f6dd och uppv\u00e4xt i Kharkiv i Ukraina. De historier som jag minns att hon ber\u00e4ttade om sitt hemland har f\u00e5tt en helt annan mening f\u00f6r mig idag, och de bilder som Ivetta publicerar dagligen i sociala medier visar p\u00e5 de katastrofala konsekvenserna av kriget.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Programmet som presenterades den 13 mars fick representation fr\u00e5n MOMDH tack vare v\u00e5r konstn\u00e4rliga chef och professor i s\u00e5ng Lena Hellstr\u00f6m-F\u00e4rnl\u00f6f, som i dialog med Ivetta ordnade s\u00e5 att tv\u00e5 av s\u00e5ngstudenterna fr\u00e5n hennes klass kunde framf\u00f6ra den Ukrainska s\u00e5ngen&nbsp;<em>Plyv\u00e9 choven<\/em>&nbsp;av Ukrainske komposit\u00f6ren Mykola Lysenko.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Det blev en otrolig uppslutning till fredskonserten, och den finns \u00e4ven inspelad att lyssna p\u00e5 i sin helhet:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Studenterna som medverkade fr\u00e5n MOMDU var Emma \u00d6sterberg, mezzosopran och Minna T\u00e4gil, sopran.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-inbaddningshanterare wp-block-embed-inbaddningshanterare wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<div class=\"jetpack-video-wrapper\"><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe class='youtube-player' type='text\/html' width='1200' height='705' src='https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/fzV_RJilN4g?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;fs=1&#038;autohide=2&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;wmode=transparent' allowfullscreen='true' style='border:0;'><\/iframe><\/span><\/div> \n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ukrainianartsong.ca\/composers-1-1-1\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.ukrainianartsong.ca\/composers-1-1-1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Mer om Mykola Lysenko<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/staffansandstrom.se\/?page_id=36\">Om Staffan Sandstr\u00f6m<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:post-content --><\/p>\n<p><!-- wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mdh.se\/utbildning\/omraden\/musik-och-opera\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Om Musik- och Operah\u00f6gskolan vid M\u00e4lardalens universitet<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p><\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry-summary\">\nSunday 20 March 2022 The unifying force of music On Thursday, February the 24th this year, something unbelievable happened: Russia&hellip;\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/staffansandstrom.se\/?p=999\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;The unifying                                force                                               of music&rdquo;<\/span>&hellip;<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1000,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sfsi_plus_gutenberg_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_show_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_type":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_alignemt":"","sfsi_plus_gutenburg_max_per_row":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-999","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffansandstrom.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/999","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffansandstrom.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffansandstrom.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffansandstrom.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffansandstrom.se\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=999"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/staffansandstrom.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/999\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1009,"href":"https:\/\/staffansandstrom.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/999\/revisions\/1009"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffansandstrom.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1000"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffansandstrom.se\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=999"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffansandstrom.se\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=999"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffansandstrom.se\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=999"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}