The Embassy of Denmark in Bucharest
Presents
The Copenhagen University Choir
in Concert at the
National Museum of Art in Bucharest
Date: 02.06.2016
Time: 17:00
The Copenhagen University Choir
in Concert at the National Museum of Art in Bucharest
Conducted by
Chief Conductor Jørgen Fuglebæk
Hans Ernst Krøyer · Adam Oehlenschläger
Der er et yndigt land · A Fair and Lovely Land (National Anthem)
Anton Pann · Andrei Mureşanu
Deşteaptă-te, române! (National Anthem)
Pro gram
Poul Schierbeck · Hans Christian Andersen
I Danmark er jeg født · In Denmark I was Born
Otto Mortensen · Christian Winther
Min skat · My Darling
Danish folk song · arr. Knudåge Riisager
Gildet i skoven · The Feast in the Woods
Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy · Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Türkisches Schenkenlied
Heinrich August Marschner · Wilhelm August Wohlbrück
Trinklied
Folk song from the Pyrenees · arr. Svend Saaby
Rose de Provence
August Söderman · Richard Gustafsson
I bröllopsgården · Rural Wedding
English traditional · arr. Ralph Vaughan Williams
Down Among the Dead Men
Carl Nielsen · Helge Rode
Som en rejselysten flåde · There’s a Fleet of Floating Islands
The Copenhagen University Choir
The Danish foundation “Konsul George Jorck og
Hustru Emma Jorck’s Fond”
The Copenhagen University Choir, known in Denmark as
Studenter-Sangforeningen—literally “the student singing society”, was founded in 1839 and has been a mainstay of Danish
and Nordic choral tradition ever since.
As the largest and oldest Danish male choir, it has the privilege of contributing to the University of Copenhagen’s annual
celebrations and traditions, as well as of participating in the
celebration of birthdays and jubilees of the choir’s honorary
members—Her Majesty The Queen Margrethe II and His Royal Highness Prince Henrik.
The choir consists of past and present students from Copenhagen University and other academic institutions, giving a
unique blend of voices of all ages: This concert in Bucharest
brings together 34 singers, from students in their early twenties
to singers still active in their seventies. This musical and fraternal community and the strong bonds across generations play a
quintessential role in passing on the musical heritage and traditions to new generations of singers.
The choir’s core repertoire spans from the so-called Golden
Age of Danish poetry and music in the first half of the 19th
Century, to the decades before and after the Second World
War. During this period Danish poets and composers – among
them internationally famous artists like Hans Christian Andersen and Carl Nielsen – created a vast treasure of songs where
romanticism and the Nordic nature blend with the youthful
cameraderie of student life, memories of the many ups and
downs of Danish national history, and impulses from contemporary church, folk, classical and popular music.
Since 1992 the choir’s chief conductor is Mr. Jørgen Fuglebæk, who graduated as a conductor from The Royal Academy
of Music in London in 1980. Since then he has conducted a
wide range of Danish national and local orchestras and choral
ensembles, and taught choral and orchestral conducting at the
Danish academies of music.
Heritage
Sp e cial Th an k s To…
Two Centuries of Tradition