In this Easter special, doctoral research fellow Kristina Sočanski Čelik shares her insights and reminiscences of Eastern Easter - and the religious musical traditions of the Orthodox Christian church. Based on her research on how contemporary composition relates sonic experiences to the spiritual, this show takes listeners across the Greek, Ukrainian, Serbian, and North Macedonian Easter soundscapes, while offering folkloric and sacral readings of the works of Ljubica Marić and Arvo Pärt.
Listening List:
1. The Sorrowful Mother - Vydubychi Church Chorus
2. Anastaseos Imera - Divna Ljubojevic & "The Melodists" Choir
3. Arvo Pärt – Cantus in Memoriam Benjamin Britten – Norwegian Chamber Orchestra – Terje Tønnesen, conductor
4. Arvo Pärt – Für Alina – Kristina Socanski, piano
5. Ljubica Marić – The Byzantine Concerto - Olga Jovanović, piano - Belgrade Philharmonic Orchestra - Oskar Danon, conductor
6. Serbian Octoechoe – Gospodi Vozzvah – Voice 1 – Marija Jovićević, Nikola Radunović, chanters
7. Stevan Mokranjac – Passion Week – Radio Television Belgrade Choir – Vladimir Kranjčević, conductor
8. Trad: Easter Ring Dance (Veligdensko oro) – Bajsa Arifovska
References:
Ribic, Romana. (2014). “Audio Recordings of Hymns from the Octoechos as
Written Down by Stevan Stojanović Mokranjac”. New Sound 43, I/2014.
Cizmic, Maria and Helbig, Adriana. "10. The Piano and the Performing Body in the Music of Arvo Pärt: Phenomenological Perspectives".
Arvo Pärt: Sounding the Sacred, edited by Peter C. Bouteneff, Jeffers Engelhardt and Robert Saler, New York, USA: Fordham University Press, 2020, pp. 177-194.
https://doi.org/10.1515/9780823289783-010
What is The Music Talkshow?
“Music Talkshow” is a musicology dissemination show by our local University of Oslo early career music and sound researchers – PhD’s and postdocs. How do we communicate our research to the “outside” world? How do we maintain our relevance to society as academics? People who write about music, but not the music itself? In other words, how does our work relate to the real world, and how does the real-world manifests in our work?
In this show, we tackle these unanswerable questions with a light-hearted approach: through informal conversations, sound and music examples, and perhaps some experiments. We hope to bridge the gap between those who wonder about music casually and those who do that professionally – from prospective students to lifelong music fans, fidelity nerds, and helpless cheesy romantics. By doing so, we will leave our own comfort zones to show the diversity of the academic community to showcase new voices and sounds, encourage participation, and take an alternative turn on the University.