In 1969, the Norwegian TV debate show, Åpen Post, hosted two opposing teams: on the one hand, the proponents of pop music defended the right to like a "happy, simple melody," and claimed not to understand art and contemporary music. On the other, the advocates of "intellectual music" advanced that music should have quality and a message. Mockingly, during the debate, singer and actress Elisabeth Grannemann performed a song while breaking dishes, while the pianist imitated contemporary piano performance techniques, in reference to Arne Nordheim's music. Nordheim, among others, responded by composing a piece that was "pop music with avant-garde qualities." 

This session will tackle the different facets of the renowned composer Arne Nordheim's musical language. For instance, ‘Solitaire’ is one of his most known electronic pieces, ‘Lux et Tenebrae’ is a concert version from Nordheim's ambitious contribution to the Scandinavian pavilion at EXPO'70 in Osaka.

Rådhussalen, the main library 

The event is free. 

Curated and hosted by Annett Busch, Prerna Bishnoi, and Stian Stakset. 

More information and updated material can be found on / Mer informasjon og oppdatert materiale finner du på woa.kein.org 

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About Slow Education: 

How do we learn, engage and communicate through and with music? How does it shape our views, attitudes and ways of thinking? 

Slow Education offers a series of public listening sessions, which will be led by researchers, musicians, enthusiasts, and artists who will narrate with and through music. The Trondheim folkebibliotek’s truly international vinyl selection will serve as a starting point to invite, present and share an array of listening habits and tastes, to unravel polyphonous narratives of and through popular and unpopular culture. Record labels and release dates will unfold entangled history lessons and single tracks might take us on long journeys, training and tuning our rusty auditory tracts. 

“Slow Education” (title of a Silver Jews album) is the Trondheim-pilot of a larger project framework called transversal evening class, initiated by the artists' collective Women on Aeroplanes. The language of discussion will be English in all kinds of accents; lyrics will be in different languages — either way, language is always open to translation.