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People's Houses (Russian: Народный дом) were originally leisure and cultural centres built with the intention of making art and cultural appreciation available to the working classes. The first establishment of this type appeared in Tomsk, Russia in 1882. Soon people's Houses became popular in England (17887, "People's Palace"), Scotland, Turkey and other European states.
The term "people's house" (e.g., folkets hus, casa del pueblo, maison du peuple, etc.) was used in continental Europe for working-class community centres, and these were often associated with labor unions and parties.
In the late 19th century, People's Palaces started being built in grim urban districts. The concept was to raise morale and morality through inspiring buildings which offered cultural nourishment. Costly, taking years to build and lavishly decorated, they were designed to provide a focal point for civic pride, venues for meetings and public events.
Notably these were built according to neo-Gothic style, as promoted by Augustus Pugin and John Ruskin: Pugin believed the harmonious style of the architecture could influence morality, while Ruskin in his book The Stones of Venice examined the architecture of the Italian Renaissance mercantile republics, believing it expressed the spirit of freedom. Architects adopted these ideas in their building of People's Palaces in the north of England and in Scotland, both to assert the cultural credentials of those regions and to provide an improving influence over the citizens of burgeoning industrial towns.
Carl August Nielsen (Danish: [kʰɑːl ˈnelsn̩]; 9 June 1865 – 3 October 1931) was a Danish musician, conductor and violinist, widely recognized as his country's greatest composer. Brought up by poor but musically talented parents on the island of Funen, he demonstrated his musical abilities at an early age. He initially played in a military band before attending the Royal Danish Academy of Music in Copenhagen from 1884 until December 1886. He premiered his Op. 1, Suite for Strings, in 1888, at the age of 23. The following year, Nielsen began a 16-year stint as a second violinist in the prestigious Royal Danish Orchestra under the conductor Johan Svendsen, during which he played in Giuseppe Verdi's Falstaff and Otello at their Danish premieres. In 1916, he took a post teaching at the Royal Academy and continued to work there until his death.
Although his symphonies, concertos and choral music are now internationally acclaimed, Nielsen's career and personal life were marked by many difficulties, often reflected in his music. The works he composed between 1897 and 1904 are sometimes ascribed to his "psychological" period, resulting mainly from a turbulent marriage with the sculptor Anne Marie Brodersen. Nielsen is especially noted for his six symphonies, his Wind Quintet and his concertos for violin, flute and clarinet. In Denmark, his opera Maskarade and many of his songs have become an integral part of the national heritage. His early music was inspired by composers such as Brahms and Grieg, but he soon developed his own style, first experimenting with progressive tonality and later diverging even more radically from the standards of composition still common at the time. Nielsen's sixth and final symphony, Sinfonia semplice, was written in 1924–25. He died from a heart attack six years later, and is buried in Vestre Cemetery, Copenhagen.
Hans Abrahamsen (born 23 December 1952) is a Danish composer.
Born in Copenhagen, Abrahamsen first got to know music through playing the French horn at school. He went on to study music theory at the Royal Danish Academy of Music. His music is inspired by his mentors Per Nørgård and Pelle Gudmundsen-Holmgreen, who were two of his composition teachers, and in the 1980s he became close both personally and stylistically (partly through another period of study) to György Ligeti.
Abrahamsen is considered to have been part of a trend called the "New Simplicity", which arose in the mid-1960s as a reaction against the complexity and perceived aridity of the Central European avant-garde. Abrahamsen’s first works conformed to the tenets of this movement, which was a Danish reaction against the complexity emanating from central Europe, particularly the circle around the Darmstadt School. For Abrahamsen this meant adopting an almost naive simplicity of expression, as in his orchestral piece Skum ("Foam", 1970). His style soon altered and developed, at first through a personal dialogue with Romanticism (audible in works such as the orchestral Nacht und Trompeten (1981)), and later—after a hiatus of around a decade in which he composed little and released nothing—into something entirely personal, combining a modernist stringency and economy into a larger individual musical universe. Notable works since his return to composition include a piano concerto written for his wife Anne-Marie Abildskov, and the extended chamber work Schnee, where the paring-down of material appears to reach a new extreme.
Komponist: Hugo Gyldmark Tekstforfatter: Rosa Abrehamsen POLYDOR 2443 010 B (1971)
Innslag sendt på NRK 18.11.1969 i programmet Sport'n. Vi blir kjent med Magnus Abrahamsen, Torvid Eskildsen og Ivar Johannessen, kort tid etter at de stiftet Mandal Atletklubb med treningslokaler i Eskildsens kjeller. Både Abrahamsen og Eskildsen satte på 1970-tallet europarekorder i benkpress. Abrahamsen benket 234 kg i klasse -110 kg i 1972, og Eskildsen benket 192,5 kg i klasse -82,5 kg samme år. Abrahamsen er dessuten to ganger norgesmester i styrkeløft (1969 og 1970).
Carl Nielsen - Commotio op. 58 - Arrangement: Hans Abrahamsen - DRSO - Fabio Luisi © Danmarks Radio Public Domain
Fra eget kassettebånd. Brødrene Bisp og deres voldsomme Volvo. Brødrene Bisp Band* Voldsom Volvo 2:50 –Dieters Lieder Dig Og Mig 4:20 –Brødrene Bisp Band* Soul Soufflé 3:18 –Familierne Belli, Heick Og Lille Palle m.fl.* En Stor Familie 2:51 –Dodo And The Dodo's Go´Nat 4:18 –Wikke-Rasmussen Klap I Olsen 0:40 –Sven Svin Band* Blå Vogn 3:38 –Rocazino Ridder Lykke 3:37 –Sven Svin Band* Rock Bulldog 2:38 –Peter Belli Holbæk 4:00 –Wikke-Rasmussen Klap I Olsen - Fortsat 0:56 EBBA MC 103
A unique recording from 1973: Dmitri Shostakovich meets Danish composers and comments on their music. Composers discussed are Vagn Holmboe, Axel Borup-Jørgensen, Hans Abrahamsen and American-born Ray Pitts. Heard are also the voices of composers Ole Schmidt, Leif Kayser, Knud Høgenhaven and Svend Erik Tarp. Shostakovich briefly mentions the music of Carl Nielsen and talks about his own Symphony no. 15. The meeting took place in Copenhagen, May 1973, when Shostakovich visited Denmark to receive the Sonning Music Prize. In Russian and Danish.
Det' godt at se dig fra CD'en "Lidt røg fra Vorherres cigar" 2010 Optaget sammen med et glad publikum i Fjordvilla Studiet i Roskilde en kold efterårsaften i 2009, men det er sådan det lyder hver sommer søndag aften når Skagen Festival slutter i Badmintonhallen! ;o) Sangen er vartegn for netop Skagen Festival, hvor Bente er konferencie'er hvert år og hvor Leif står for de to store synge-med-og-spille-sammen-eftermiddage: Ceilidh'en og Singers Afternoon. Sang+guitar: Bente Kure Harmonika: Leif Ernstsen Niels Vangkilde: El-bas Alan Klitgaard og Jens G. Christensen: Kor Tekst og Musik: Allan Taylor (It's good to see you) Oversættelse: Rune T. Kidde og Alex Campbell www.benteogleif.dk
Onsdag den 8. februar 2017 besøgte Frihedens Stemme igen Folkets Hus. Denne gang med nødvendig beskyttelse fra politiet. Den uofficielle forening Black Lives Matter Denmark anført af zambieren Bwalya Sørensen skulle denne dag holde "mobiliseringsmøde" i Folkets Hus. Det skulle ske enten kl. 17.00 eller kl. 17.30 (alt efter hvilken indkaldelse, man holdt sig til). Frihedens Stemme var ved Folkets Hus for at spørge Bwalya Sørensen, hvorfor hun altid råber "Nazi Svend!" og også, hvorfor hun mener, at Vridsløselille Statsfængsel er en koncentrationslejr. Zambieren Bwalya ville ikke udtale sige.