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BE RGE N INTE RN AT I ON AL
FE STIVAL 2015

FEST I VI T I ES

F E ST IV IT IE S

T
​ he Song Book
of Memories
m

Last Tango
in Berlin

G RIE G H A L L E N
G RIE G SA L E N
DAT E / T IME

Thursday 28 May
at 14:00
DU RAT ION

0:50

Admission free
with seat ticket.
For registration, see
www.fib.no/sangbok
(Norwegian only)
Open seminar on
dementia at 09:00.

GRIEGH A LLE N
GRIEG SA L E N
DAT E/ T I M E

Thursday 04 June
at 20:00
D U RAT IO N

1:50
T IC KET *

Full price: 190–450
Under 30: 150
*Festival card:
40 %–30 % discount

‘Music begins where words
end, wrote J W Goethe.

The best of Ute Lemper.

We have music with us throughout
life, and even when we lose the ability
to speak and sing, there is still rhythm
in the body. This is why music is a
key to communicating with people
with dementia. Music strengthens
social interaction and contributes to
an improved quality of life.

This concert touches on all the different musical
chapters of the German-American singer’s
repertoire, yet also leaves space for open
improvisations and great moments of virtuosity
and celebrates Ute’s inspiration from jazz and
ethnic musical influences.
Ute Lemper has been called the Marlene
Dietrich of our time, and both Nick Cave, Tom
Waits, Philip Glass and Elvis Costello have
composed for her.
This evening, the journey starts in Berlin with
Ute’s root repertoire: Brecht, Weill and the Berlin
Cabaret Songs. The journey continues into the
poetic universe of the French chansons by Brel,
Piaf, Ferré, and further to the Argentinian world
of tango by Astor Piazzolla. Ute walks through
the backstreets of Paris, Berlin, New York and
lets ancient ghosts tell the stories of the lost,
of love, survival, passion, dreams, the past and
the future. She also performs her own songs to
connect the yesterday with the today through
her own stories about these places.

Ute Lemper vocals
Vana Gierig piano
Victor Villena bandoneon
Cyril Garac violin
Romain Lecuyer bass
Sponsored by DNB

Festival
Street

In this concert Herborg Kråkevik
and the girls’ chorus share their joy
of singing with the audience. One of
the pieces is the work Et blad falder til
himlen (A leaf falls to the sky), composed by Bent Sørensen to lyrics by
Knud Romer.