Anders Nordentoft

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  www.whistlerquestion.com/article/20090226/WHISTLER04/30 - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 2/26/2009    Last Visited: 3/7/2009  

  Other pieces in the Whistler program include "Fragrance of Cedar," by Jon Siddal for gamelan ensemble, "Four Directions" by Jennifer Butler for solo flute, and "Turmalin" by Danish composer Anders Nordentoft for solo flute.

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  www.disturbances.org/index.php?id=participants_detail&w - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 3/9/2008    Last Visited: 3/9/2008  

  Has recently (December 2002) played the leading singing/performing role in the opera On this Planet () by the composer Anders Nordentoft and the director/stage designer Martin Tulinius.

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  www.chestermusic.com/composer/1162/main.html - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 12/18/2003    Last Visited: 7/12/2004  

  Anders Nordentoft
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  Anders Nordentoft

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  Aventa - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 6/15/2009    Last Visited: 11/5/2009  

  Other pieces in the Whistler program include "Fragrance of Cedar," by Jon Siddal for gamelan ensemble, "Four Directions" by Jennifer Butler for solo flute, and "Turmalin" by Danish composer Anders Nordentoft for solo flute.
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  The programme concluded with Anders Nordentoft's Hymne. its first movement was mostly slow-moving chords, leading to an impressive climax. The other movement was more dramatic, from its opening gesture it became more and more agitated (and louder), although the last sound heard was the dying resonance of the piano.
  
  Like the other works I have heard by Nordentoft, Hymne has moments of apparently conventionality interspersed with ore obviously "contemporary" music. But Nordentoft's vision welds these disparate elements into a satisfying whole, even if one cannot easily say exactly what the music is "about". He is a major figure.
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  One one level it is easy to say what Anders Nordentoft's remarkable opera On This Planet is "about": the eternal cycle of life, love and death, epitomised by its central, Everyman-like figure, The Male.
  
  But it is as if Nordentoft had embraced Mahler's notion that "a symphony must be like the world, it must embrace everything!
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  Nordentoft has a unique voice; while clearly a "post modern" composer with an eclectic sensibility, his music has a distinctly personal style, follows no "school" and has no obvious direct influences.
  
  While he has a handy selection of modernistic effects up his sleeve - I'll merely cite the musical saw, electric violin and various electronics normally associated with rock music - one never gets the sense that he is simply "cherry picking" interesting sounds.
  
  Nordentoft has created his own language from pre-existing vocabularies. His orchestra is capable of making very loud and violent sounds, but also of great beauty - I am thinking, particularly, of the absolutely gorgeous viola counter-melody to one of the songs (was it "Don't Be Afraid?

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  Aventa - Dedicated to the performance of new music... - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 6/30/2005    Last Visited: 11/5/2009  

  This performance included works from Norway's Rolf Wallin and Danish composers Anders Nordentoft and Poul Ruders.

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  Aventa - Upcoming Concerts - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 6/16/2009    Last Visited: 6/28/2009  

  Anders Nordentoft, Turmalin
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  This performance will include works from Norway's Rolf Wallin and Danish composers Anders Nordentoft and Poul Ruders.

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  Canadian Music Centre - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 6/11/2009    Last Visited: 6/26/2009  

  This performance will include works from Norway's Rolf Wallin and Danish composers Anders Nordentoft and Poul Ruders.

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  Composers - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 5/17/2005    Last Visited: 12/11/2005  

  Anders Nordentoft

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  Danish American Society | Activities & Events - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 5/11/2007    Last Visited: 5/25/2009  

  This performance will include works from Danish composers Anders Nordentoft, Poul Ruders and Bent Sørensen, with additional works from Norway's Rolf Wallin.

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  Nordentoft, Anders at ChesterNovello.com - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 8/29/2005    Last Visited: 8/29/2005  

  Anders Nordentoft
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  Anders Nordentoft
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  This is how Anders Nordentoft introduces his text about the opera On this Planet (2002) for singing voice and sinfonietta.
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  One senses that for Nordentoft the moment of creativity is a physical state rather than the drawing-up a musical account book that has to be balanced.

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