Brass-Band-Quintet and other Brass pieces

for more information. You can click on the title of the songs to listen to an electronic recording of each song.

Project description

The project is named “A Nightingales song” with the following orchestration:

One female vocalist, a story teller and a brass quintet (2 trumpets, 1 french horn, 1 trombone and a tuba) and some electronic back tracks.

The music is a bouquet of 12 vocal songs that are through-composed and orchestrated in different styles by Jens Wendelboe. Lyrics and storyline are by Kari Iveland.

The story is based on Philomela who was transformed into a Nightingale in Ovids “Metamorphose”, and that here singing shall always persist.

But the story is of course also about the British Nightingale, that among other things, is the only bird that sings 24/7, but unfortunately is on the brink of extinction.

The concert aims to bring the audience on a wandering tour with poetic songs through many imaginary rooms, where each room depicts a different emotion. This will, in the 75 minutes that the concert lasts, create a compositional and emotional unity.

We envision this as a “One Woman Show” accompanied by five musician who will perform eight instrumental pieces in between the vocals. and a male story teller to tie it all together.

There are very few works like this so it will definitely be unique in its form.

It is also possible to add school choir arrangements on a couple of the songs for school concerts, if desired.