Recorded on: Peace Pieces (1993), re-released on Out of the Blue (2006)The Welcome to the Trondheim Composer Group Concert (4:57) was made by Jan Tro at UC San Diego's Center for Music Experiment at an event he made presenting music from his colleagues in Norway. He spoke of the frustration of living in a country with a small population, the feeling of being unable to change the world. Norwegians are presently connected to one superpower (via NATO) and neighbors to another, and yet they are isolated.
"It was founded in '85, not in opposition to the national organization for composers but maybe as a supplement {ow!} in order to have a variety of styles in composer groups...consists of ten composers in Trondheim.
We have different kind of backgrounds, from church music, from traditional classical music, from avant garde, from jazz music, and I think that's the reason this group is very interesting to be a part of. We'll try to make this hour Trondheim the center of the world.
A small group of composers from Norway...Gorbachov saying if perestroika fails the prospect of entering a new peaceful period of history will vanish...at least for the foreseeable future. He said that in Oslo yesterday, so for some small moments Oslo was in the center of the world. We'll try to make this hour Trondheim the center of the world.
Well, that's the way we are looking at Norway from inside--we want to be world champions, at least in Norway."
I selected some of the lines and combined them with a jam made using the software program "Upbeat."
Recorded on: Peace Pieces (1993), re-released on Out of the Blue (2006)
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