The Concert Program

This inaugural concert in our music program in JP/Politiken’s Pressen Hall is also an historic event. (Not quite the fall of the Berlin wall, but still!) This will be the first concert in Denmark focussing entirely on female composers from past centuries. Performing tonight will be the Russian pianist Eleonora Teplukhina. ...

Those of you who regularly follow programs of classical music would have noticed how many concerts for this year have been dedicated to Beethoven’s 250th birthday, concerts that, while these words are written, are cancelled one after the other. Yet another victim of the Corona virus. Let us hope that we at least can celebrate his birthday proper in style on the day itself, 16th December, at the end of a year that turned out to be the most bizarre of them all. ...

No one did romance better than the romantic composers of the 19th century. We have invited a number of them to Copenhagen on Valentine’s Day, where we for an evening will convert JP/Politiken’s large hall “Pressen” into the temple of love. Within reason of course. ...

How did the Russian composers maintain their artistic integrity during the Soviet regime that wanted to use their music politically? That is the subject for our CCCP-concert (Or the USSR concert). ...