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Date: september 17th, 2023
FEATURE: Made in Ireland - Sweden's training success story
23 August , 2023
Jessica Long, one of Sweden’s leading trainers, tells Xander Brett about her strong Irish connections
Jessica and Padraig Long with Ayani
ON the outskirts of Malmö, the tables of Jägersro Racecourse’s VIP restaurant are being tidied away. It’s 4pm, and the last contest of a nine-race card ended almost an hour ago. Jessica Long, her husband Padraig, mother Caroline, and daughter Beatrice are the only guests left, watching raindrops patter down on the terrace outside.
Today saw American Zodiac take the Swedish Oaks, delivering a second Scandinavian classic success in as many days to jockey Carlos Lopez. But just as much excitement surrounded the Hurricanelöpning just after 1pm, and the return of Jessica’s Swedish Derby hero, Ayani, who led from the front, finishing well clear to a ripple of applause.
Owned by Chess Racing, under the control of ABBA’s Benny Andersson, as I pull up a chair, Jessica confirms September’s Group 3 Stockholm Cup International remains a speculative next step, though she’s also keen to run her star three-year-old abroad.
Jessica, who spent three seasons at Coolmore, and met Padraig while he was at the Castlehyde outpost, keeps a discernible Irish twang to her accent.
Padraig, meanwhile, who hails from Co Galway, has spent almost 20 years in Sweden, and now speaks with characteristic Scandinavian in-breaths, searching for words in Swedish to be translated back. “I moved home to study,” Jessica explains, “and to get a ‘real job’ in Sweden. But my heart was always with horses.”
Tag along
Padraig, who didn’t grow up in racing, insists he was happy to tag along, entering full-time employment with Jessica’s parents, who also trained. Jessica says it was always her plan to keep the family operation going, though she admits studying abroad was an essential grounding.
She says she stays in touch with her much-valued racing network in Ireland. “Swedish apprentices often lack basic knowledge,” she sighs. “We had an apprentice in our stables once, and I told them which filly was this season’s Guineas hope. The apprentice asked why we couldn’t run her next year!”
Laughing, she and Padraig turn serious when they share concerns about a lack of new talent in the riding ranks. Scandinavian apprentices, they say, often lose interest after riding out a claim, or move abroad in search of a wider reaching career.
For Ayani – known as ‘the elk’ or ‘the gentle giant’, given his imposing stature – the journey home is a matter of metres. Jessica’s stable sits to the far end of Jägersro’s training complex. Horses return to the family farm, near the village of Klågerup, for their winter break, and the couple keep a collection of broodmares on site: two of their own, and a collection for top Scandinavian owners (for aforementioned Benny Andersson, and for Norwegian businessmen Morten Buck and Magne Jordanger).
From either base, Copenhagen’s Klampenborg Racecourse is just over an hour’s drive, with Gothenburg Racecourse lying just over three hours up the E6. Oslo’s Øvrevoll Racecourse is a six-hour trip, and taking runners to the headquarters of Swedish racing – Bro Park, just north of Stockholm – involves a seven-hour hike.
Little wonder, then, Jessica makes regular use of circuits in France and Germany. Both Hamburg and Hanover are in closer proximity than Bro Park, and Baden-Baden is an ever-popular pilgrimage.
Last year, the couple’s eight-year-old, Good Eye, even represented Sweden in the UK, running at York and Goodwood, where he secured a respectable fourth in the Stewards Cup.
Throughout our discussion, I’m reminded that, in just a few years’ time, the view from our window may cease to exist.
New racecourse
Jägersro, a tight dirt oval, is rented from trotting, an infinitely more popular equine pastime in Sweden. The course is slated for closure, and we’re meeting as Svensk Galopp (Swedish racing’s governing body) has announced its decision to build a new racecourse in Bara, 12 km from Jägersro.
Skånska Fältrittklubben (the local racing association) and Jockeyklubben (Swedish racing’s social club) will be providing financial loans if an agreement is signed, with facilities rented from YCAP AB.
The new project is a welcome development, says Jessica, though she’s wary of renting, rather than owning, the land. Certainly, it’s good news for those with a dislike of Jägersro, characterised today by sparse corridors, unused grandstands, and a vast car park it shares with a nearby shopping mall.
With the season underway, the couple spend most working hours at the Jägersro stables, which includes a shared training circuit to the right of the racecourse. Yearlings, broodmares, and mares in foal remain at the farm.
Jessica arrives early to feed the 20 or so horses in training, while Padraig does the school run. “Many of our mares travel abroad to be covered,” Jessica explains, “so we might only foal between two and four at home each spring. We’re a team of four or five, with an assistant on the farm, and helpers at our racecourse stables.”
Jessica tells me there are around 10 professional trainers at Jägersro, a similar figure to the 12 at Bro Park.
“Generally, we keep fewer handicappers down here,” she adds. “It also helps that the climate is kinder to us and, of course, that we don’t spend an extra day on the road when we travel to courses down south.”
Norwegian Derby
Jessica currently occupies second position in the Swedish training leaderboard, tucked in behind neighbouring Jägersro trainer Lennart Reuterskiöld Jr.
Her Derby and Oaks winners are the leading earners.
As we prepare to pack up, walking over to her office, I hear more about her charge in the upcoming Norwegian Derby: Captain’s Choice, a French import who finished seventh in the Swedish version last month. I’m also told about her two-year-old Swing, who won the Lambada Cup for Benny Andersson’s wife, Mona.
The couple say Andersson’s racing interest hasn’t, sadly, pulled a new crowd into the game, though his dedication to the sport is well-documented.
“Benny loves studying bloodlines,” say Jessica and Padraig. “He once said the thrill of buying horses was bigger than anything he’s done on stage.”
Big words for a superstar. And words appreciated by his Swedish trainer: the Irish educated Jessica, as she shares an international outlook with this most northerly of thoroughbred industries.
Jessica and Padraig Long with Ayani
ON the outskirts of Malmö, the tables of Jägersro Racecourse’s VIP restaurant are being tidied away. It’s 4pm, and the last contest of a nine-race card ended almost an hour ago. Jessica Long, her husband Padraig, mother Caroline, and daughter Beatrice are the only guests left, watching raindrops patter down on the terrace outside.
Today saw American Zodiac take the Swedish Oaks, delivering a second Scandinavian classic success in as many days to jockey Carlos Lopez. But just as much excitement surrounded the Hurricanelöpning just after 1pm, and the return of Jessica’s Swedish Derby hero, Ayani, who led from the front, finishing well clear to a ripple of applause.
Owned by Chess Racing, under the control of ABBA’s Benny Andersson, as I pull up a chair, Jessica confirms September’s Group 3 Stockholm Cup International remains a speculative next step, though she’s also keen to run her star three-year-old abroad.
Jessica, who spent three seasons at Coolmore, and met Padraig while he was at the Castlehyde outpost, keeps a discernible Irish twang to her accent.
Padraig, meanwhile, who hails from Co Galway, has spent almost 20 years in Sweden, and now speaks with characteristic Scandinavian in-breaths, searching for words in Swedish to be translated back. “I moved home to study,” Jessica explains, “and to get a ‘real job’ in Sweden. But my heart was always with horses.”
Tag along
Padraig, who didn’t grow up in racing, insists he was happy to tag along, entering full-time employment with Jessica’s parents, who also trained. Jessica says it was always her plan to keep the family operation going, though she admits studying abroad was an essential grounding.
She says she stays in touch with her much-valued racing network in Ireland. “Swedish apprentices often lack basic knowledge,” she sighs. “We had an apprentice in our stables once, and I told them which filly was this season’s Guineas hope. The apprentice asked why we couldn’t run her next year!”
Laughing, she and Padraig turn serious when they share concerns about a lack of new talent in the riding ranks. Scandinavian apprentices, they say, often lose interest after riding out a claim, or move abroad in search of a wider reaching career.
For Ayani – known as ‘the elk’ or ‘the gentle giant’, given his imposing stature – the journey home is a matter of metres. Jessica’s stable sits to the far end of Jägersro’s training complex. Horses return to the family farm, near the village of Klågerup, for their winter break, and the couple keep a collection of broodmares on site: two of their own, and a collection for top Scandinavian owners (for aforementioned Benny Andersson, and for Norwegian businessmen Morten Buck and Magne Jordanger).
From either base, Copenhagen’s Klampenborg Racecourse is just over an hour’s drive, with Gothenburg Racecourse lying just over three hours up the E6. Oslo’s Øvrevoll Racecourse is a six-hour trip, and taking runners to the headquarters of Swedish racing – Bro Park, just north of Stockholm – involves a seven-hour hike.
Little wonder, then, Jessica makes regular use of circuits in France and Germany. Both Hamburg and Hanover are in closer proximity than Bro Park, and Baden-Baden is an ever-popular pilgrimage.
Last year, the couple’s eight-year-old, Good Eye, even represented Sweden in the UK, running at York and Goodwood, where he secured a respectable fourth in the Stewards Cup.
Throughout our discussion, I’m reminded that, in just a few years’ time, the view from our window may cease to exist.
New racecourse
Jägersro, a tight dirt oval, is rented from trotting, an infinitely more popular equine pastime in Sweden. The course is slated for closure, and we’re meeting as Svensk Galopp (Swedish racing’s governing body) has announced its decision to build a new racecourse in Bara, 12 km from Jägersro.
Skånska Fältrittklubben (the local racing association) and Jockeyklubben (Swedish racing’s social club) will be providing financial loans if an agreement is signed, with facilities rented from YCAP AB.
The new project is a welcome development, says Jessica, though she’s wary of renting, rather than owning, the land. Certainly, it’s good news for those with a dislike of Jägersro, characterised today by sparse corridors, unused grandstands, and a vast car park it shares with a nearby shopping mall.
With the season underway, the couple spend most working hours at the Jägersro stables, which includes a shared training circuit to the right of the racecourse. Yearlings, broodmares, and mares in foal remain at the farm.
Jessica arrives early to feed the 20 or so horses in training, while Padraig does the school run. “Many of our mares travel abroad to be covered,” Jessica explains, “so we might only foal between two and four at home each spring. We’re a team of four or five, with an assistant on the farm, and helpers at our racecourse stables.”
Jessica tells me there are around 10 professional trainers at Jägersro, a similar figure to the 12 at Bro Park.
“Generally, we keep fewer handicappers down here,” she adds. “It also helps that the climate is kinder to us and, of course, that we don’t spend an extra day on the road when we travel to courses down south.”
Norwegian Derby
Jessica currently occupies second position in the Swedish training leaderboard, tucked in behind neighbouring Jägersro trainer Lennart Reuterskiöld Jr.
Her Derby and Oaks winners are the leading earners.
As we prepare to pack up, walking over to her office, I hear more about her charge in the upcoming Norwegian Derby: Captain’s Choice, a French import who finished seventh in the Swedish version last month. I’m also told about her two-year-old Swing, who won the Lambada Cup for Benny Andersson’s wife, Mona.
The couple say Andersson’s racing interest hasn’t, sadly, pulled a new crowd into the game, though his dedication to the sport is well-documented.
“Benny loves studying bloodlines,” say Jessica and Padraig. “He once said the thrill of buying horses was bigger than anything he’s done on stage.”
Big words for a superstar. And words appreciated by his Swedish trainer: the Irish educated Jessica, as she shares an international outlook with this most northerly of thoroughbred industries.
ON the outskirts of Malmö, the tables of Jägersro Racecourse’s VIP restaurant are being tidied away. It’s 4pm, and the last contest of a nine-race card ended almost an hour ago. Jessica Long, her husband Padraig, mother Caroline, and daughter Beatrice are the only guests left, watching raindrops patter down on the terrace outside.
Today saw American Zodiac take the Swedish Oaks, delivering a second Scandinavian classic success in as many days to jockey Carlos Lopez. But just as much excitement surrounded the Hurricanelöpning just after 1pm, and the return of Jessica’s Swedish Derby hero, Ayani, who led from the front, finishing well clear to a ripple of applause.
Owned by Chess Racing, under the control of ABBA’s Benny Andersson, as I pull up a chair, Jessica confirms September’s Group 3 Stockholm Cup International remains a speculative next step, though she’s also keen to run her star three-year-old abroad.
Jessica, who spent three seasons at Coolmore, and met Padraig while he was at the Castlehyde outpost, keeps a discernible Irish twang to her accent.
Padraig, meanwhile, who hails from Co Galway, has spent almost 20 years in Sweden, and now speaks with characteristic Scandinavian in-breaths, searching for words in Swedish to be translated back. “I moved home to study,” Jessica explains, “and to get a ‘real job’ in Sweden. But my heart was always with horses.”
Tag along
Padraig, who didn’t grow up in racing, insists he was happy to tag along, entering full-time employment with Jessica’s parents, who also trained. Jessica says it was always her plan to keep the family operation going, though she admits studying abroad was an essential grounding.
She says she stays in touch with her much-valued racing network in Ireland. “Swedish apprentices often lack basic knowledge,” she sighs. “We had an apprentice in our stables once, and I told them which filly was this season’s Guineas hope. The apprentice asked why we couldn’t run her next year!”
Laughing, she and Padraig turn serious when they share concerns about a lack of new talent in the riding ranks. Scandinavian apprentices, they say, often lose interest after riding out a claim, or move abroad in search of a wider reaching career.
For Ayani – known as ‘the elk’ or ‘the gentle giant’, given his imposing stature – the journey home is a matter of metres. Jessica’s stable sits to the far end of Jägersro’s training complex. Horses return to the family farm, near the village of Klågerup, for their winter break, and the couple keep a collection of broodmares on site: two of their own, and a collection for top Scandinavian owners (for aforementioned Benny Andersson, and for Norwegian businessmen Morten Buck and Magne Jordanger).
From either base, Copenhagen’s Klampenborg Racecourse is just over an hour’s drive, with Gothenburg Racecourse lying just over three hours up the E6. Oslo’s Øvrevoll Racecourse is a six-hour trip, and taking runners to the headquarters of Swedish racing – Bro Park, just north of Stockholm – involves a seven-hour hike.
Little wonder, then, Jessica makes regular use of circuits in France and Germany. Both Hamburg and Hanover are in closer proximity than Bro Park, and Baden-Baden is an ever-popular pilgrimage.
Last year, the couple’s eight-year-old, Good Eye, even represented Sweden in the UK, running at York and Goodwood, where he secured a respectable fourth in the Stewards Cup.
Throughout our discussion, I’m reminded that, in just a few years’ time, the view from our window may cease to exist.
New racecourse
Jägersro, a tight dirt oval, is rented from trotting, an infinitely more popular equine pastime in Sweden. The course is slated for closure, and we’re meeting as Svensk Galopp (Swedish racing’s governing body) has announced its decision to build a new racecourse in Bara, 12 km from Jägersro.
Skånska Fältrittklubben (the local racing association) and Jockeyklubben (Swedish racing’s social club) will be providing financial loans if an agreement is signed, with facilities rented from YCAP AB.
The new project is a welcome development, says Jessica, though she’s wary of renting, rather than owning, the land. Certainly, it’s good news for those with a dislike of Jägersro, characterised today by sparse corridors, unused grandstands, and a vast car park it shares with a nearby shopping mall.
With the season underway, the couple spend most working hours at the Jägersro stables, which includes a shared training circuit to the right of the racecourse. Yearlings, broodmares, and mares in foal remain at the farm.
Jessica arrives early to feed the 20 or so horses in training, while Padraig does the school run. “Many of our mares travel abroad to be covered,” Jessica explains, “so we might only foal between two and four at home each spring. We’re a team of four or five, with an assistant on the farm, and helpers at our racecourse stables.”
Jessica tells me there are around 10 professional trainers at Jägersro, a similar figure to the 12 at Bro Park.
“Generally, we keep fewer handicappers down here,” she adds. “It also helps that the climate is kinder to us and, of course, that we don’t spend an extra day on the road when we travel to courses down south.”
Norwegian Derby
Jessica currently occupies second position in the Swedish training leaderboard, tucked in behind neighbouring Jägersro trainer Lennart Reuterskiöld Jr.
Her Derby and Oaks winners are the leading earners.
As we prepare to pack up, walking over to her office, I hear more about her charge in the upcoming Norwegian Derby: Captain’s Choice, a French import who finished seventh in the Swedish version last month. I’m also told about her two-year-old Swing, who won the Lambada Cup for Benny Andersson’s wife, Mona.
The couple say Andersson’s racing interest hasn’t, sadly, pulled a new crowd into the game, though his dedication to the sport is well-documented.
“Benny loves studying bloodlines,” say Jessica and Padraig. “He once said the thrill of buying horses was bigger than anything he’s done on stage.”
Big words for a superstar. And words appreciated by his Swedish trainer: the Irish educated Jessica, as she shares an international outlook with this most northerly of thoroughbred industries.
https://www.theirishfield.ie/feature-made-in-ireland-swedens-training-success-story-779974
viernes, 15 de septiembre de 2023
Buller och bång
Buller och bång por Benny and Bjorn
La canción fue interpretada durante la celebración de H. M el Rey - 50 años en el trono.
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Buller och bång för kungen
2023-09-15
Som en gåva till Sveriges alla barn har de båda musik- och musikalprofilerna Benny Andersson och Björn Ulvaeus skrivit en ny sång med titeln Buller och bång. Låten tillägnas Kungl. Musikaliska Akademiens verksamhet Sjungande barn, för att uppmärksamma barns rätt till sina röster genom sång.
Den 15 september framför barnkörer den nyskrivna sången för första gången vid en direktsänd sångarhyllning med anledning av H.M. Konungens 50 år på tronen.
– Med låten Buller och bång vill vi visa på vikten av barns rätt till musik och sång, säger Benny Andersson.
Barns rätt till sin röst
Forskningen är entydig när det gäller sångens många positiva effekter, den främjar språklig och social utveckling, den är en kraft för inkludering och minskat utanförskap. Samtidigt är trenden tydlig: sången tystnar hos svenska barn. Även i skolan har musikundervisningen minskat, särskilt i glesbygd där tillgång till musiklärare ofta saknas.
– Vi tolkar låtens text som att förr hade barnen ingen talan, de skulle sitta tysta och inte märkas, men nu erövrar barnen rätten till sin röst och skolan öppnar en dörr för nyfikenhet och kreativitet, säger Ulrika Lind, projektledare för Sjungande barn. Det stämmer bra överens med Sjungande barns mål och vi hoppas att låten ger fler barn möjlighet att sjunga i den musikaliska anda som Benny Anderssons musik bjuder in till.
Sångarhyllningen
Den 15 september blir det sångarhyllning på Yttre borggården vid Kungliga slottet i närvaro av kungafamiljen. Barn från Linköpings musikklasser, Västerås Domkyrkas Gosskör samt elever från musikgymnasiet i Boden samt Lars-Erik Larssongymnasiet i Lund framför ett program körsånger tillsammans med Radiokören under ledning av Christina Hörnell. Konserten är en del av det officiella programmet med anledning av kungens 50 år på tronen och direktsänds av SVT.
domingo, 16 de julio de 2023
Benny at the Swedish Derby
video and photo: Svensk Galopp
- Pensé que estaría nervioso, pero no lo estaba, dijo Benny, sosteniendo la corona gigante de la victoria. Confié en Jessica, Oliver [Wilson que montaba] y sabía que teníamos un buen caballo.
Benny me dijo que le gustan las carreras, pero que le fascina aún más la cría. Para seguir las líneas de sangre, elige un semental y luego espera.
La entrenadora Jessica Long ha trabajado a propósito con el Derby Sueco como el gran objetivo. Siempre ha tenido claro que todo ha ido exactamente según lo previsto. Y ella tenía razón.
- Está claro que trabajamos durante mucho tiempo para esto, pero finalmente encontramos el caballo adecuado.
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Benny told me that he likes racing, but is even more fascinated by breeding. To follow the bloodlines, choose a stallion and then hope.
Trainer Jessica Long has worked purposefully with the Swedish Derby as the big goal. She has always been clear that everything has gone exactly according to plan. And she was right.
- It is clear that we worked for a long time for this, but we finally found the right horse.
Ayani is big, strong – and fast. Now he outclassed everything in Scandinavia, but there is probably even more development considering that he has only made five starts (winning four of them). And Jessica Long has a plan.
Massivt jubel när Ayani triumferade i Svenskt Derby
16 juli 2023 22:09
Tränaren Jessica Long mötte ägaren och uppfödaren Benny Andersson i en lång kram. Sagan fick ett lyckligt slut, Ayani vann Svenskt Derby och jublet på Jägersro var massivt.
– Jag trodde jag skulle vara nervös, men det var jag inte, sa Benny och höll i den gigantiska segerkransen. Jag litade på Jessica, Oliver [Wilson som red] och visste att vi hade en bra häst.

På förhand var Ayani favorit, men löpningen bedömdes vara vara öppen och svår, Men när det väl blev allvar så fanns det bara en häst på banan – Ayani var helt överlägsen.
– Vi har känt ett stort och massivt stöd, så det var väldigt skönt att det lyckades, kommenterade en tagen tränare.
Löpningen tar bara ett par minuter, men det här var resultatet av en lång och systematisk satsning från Benny Anderssons sida.
– Jag har haft hästar här nere i 40 år, berättade Benny. Då var Jessica [Long] två år.
Han ropade in Ayanis mormor på auktion, har avlat vidare på den stammen och nu fick han en fullträff.
– Jag har varit med och vunnit ett par derbyn i Köpenhamn, men det här är ännu större.
Hur stort?
– Hmm. Det är stort, men att få barn är ju större. Det är top-tio i alla fall. Det här var en fantastiskt fin seger och jag är väldigt glad för Jessicas skull.
Benny berättade att han gillar racing, men är ännu mer fascinerad av uppfödningen. Att få följa blodslinjerna, välja hingst och sedan hoppas.
Tränaren Jessica Long har jobbat målmedvetet med Svenskt Derby som det stora målet. Hon har hela tiden varit klar med att allt har gått precis enligt plan. Och hon hade rätt.
– Det är klart att vi jobbat länge för det här, men äntligen hittade vi den där rätta hästen.
Ayani är stor, stark – och snabb. Nu utklassade han allt som fanns i Skandinavien, men det finns nog ännu mer utveckling med tanke på att han bara gjort fem starter (vunnit fyra av dem). Och Jessica Long har en plan.
– Släpp ut honom på en stor gräsbana så tror jag att vi hittar en växel till i honom.
Sedan Ayani, Jessica Long, Benny Andersson och Oliver Wilson skapat feststämning på Jägersro var det förstås dags för det egna firandet.
– Jag har väl varit med på en eller annan fest, så nu hänger jag med hem till tränaren. Så går det till i den här branschen. Och jag tror att det blir bra, avslutade Benny Andersson.
16 juli 2023 22:09
https://www.svenskgalopp.se/nyheter-och-media/massivt-jubel-nar-ayani-triumferade-i-svenskt-derby/
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viernes, 30 de junio de 2023
Benny with Joey Tempest
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y8eoSk4GzXU
Benny with Joey Tempest
Tv Programme: BBC Breakfast Show
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domingo, 11 de junio de 2023
viernes, 26 de mayo de 2023
martes, 9 de mayo de 2023
Tribute Concert for Stefan Nilsson
Benny Andersson during the tribute concert for Stefan Nilsson
May 8th, 2023
jueves, 4 de mayo de 2023
viernes, 14 de abril de 2023
The Symphonic Touch of Benny Andersson
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martes, 14 de marzo de 2023
Evert Taube Concert and Celebration
news: Evert Taube Concert and Celebration
March 12, 2023
Benny Andersson
Peter Nordahl
Myrra Malmberg
The Gothenburg Combo
Martin Bagge
Göteborgs kammarkör
Göteborgs nya flickkör
video: Som stjärnor små, Evert Taube
Sjömanskyrkan- Nilsson trumpet, Benny Andersson piano and Gothenburg's Nya Flickkör singing
Birgitta Mannerström-Molin conductor.
photos: instagram Myrra Malmberg in Göteborg
Myrra Malmberg is Singer. Actor. Director. Photographer. Songwrite
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About the Concert
News: Success when Taubedagen was instituted on March 12 in Gothenburg
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It was a full house and euphoric joy when the annual Taubedag was instituted on Sunday afternoon, March 12, in the Sjömanskyrkan (now Skeppet GBG) in Gothenburg. A three-hour concert with brilliant artist performances and interesting speakers, who spoke about Evert Taube from their own perspectives. Several premieres were performed, Evert Taube’s birthday was celebrated and spring was welcomed. Taube Day was a happening in the spirit of Taube!
The founders of “Taubedagen 12 March” consisted of 2 choirs and 12 musicians, singers and composers. 6 authors and researchers and the Taubes Värld Foundation.
Martin Nyströmlecturer and initiator of Taubedagen welcomed:
“The establishment of “Taube Day 12 March” wants to make Evert Taube’s artistry live on, to spread and take the road in new directions. Connect with the unexpected. And convey Evert Taube’s unique perspective on life and on the world – his unceasing will to in signs of joy and love connect home and away, near and far, the familiar with the strange. The art of seeing far.”
Among other things, the audience got to experience Benny Andersson in his new piano arrangement of Taubemelodier. And on the accordion together with his BAO colleague Lars Rudolfsson.
There were exciting premieres by Peter Nordahl, Myrra Malmberg, Birgitta Mannerström Molin, Göteborgs Nya Flickkör, The Gothenburg Combo and Martin Bagge – based on Evert Taube’s texts and music.
In addition, the audience was treated to the Iranian troubadour Päyam Tabatabayi to his own setar accompaniment, a piano improvisation by Stefan Forssén, as well as innovative choral arrangements by Gunnar Eriksson and Gothenburg’s Kammarkör.
Taube researcher David Anthin, poet Gunnar D Hansson and writer Oskar Kroon were also on stage. As well as the author and member of the Swedish Academy Ellen Mattson and the psychoanalyst, historian of ideas and author Per Magnus Johansson – who each gave a speech about Evert Taube. About how his world is made up and about his relationship with the dawn and the light.
Taube Day ended in a carnivalesque and very Taubesque spirit with all participants celebrating the arrival of the “tjällen” (beach magpie) and spring. A celebration which meant that the audience also got to participate when it was time for the newly written “Tjällevalsen”.
Martin Nyström acted conference. He is a music critic at DN, essayist and author – including the book “The art of seeing far. New perspectives on Evert Taube.” Martin is the initiator of “Taubedagen 12 March”.
“Taubedagen” is supported by Stiftelsen Taubes Värld and the Gothenburg Chamber Choir.
Lasse Nilsson, trumpet. Myrra Malmberg, vocals. Gothenburg’s New Girls’ Choir with choir director Birgitta Mannerström Molin. Composition and arrangement by Peter Nordahl (first performance)
“Like small stars”
Lars Nilsson, trumpet. Benny Andersson, piano. Gothenburg’s New Girls’ Choir with choir director Birgitta Mannerström Molin
Photographers Gunilla Cronholm and Timo Hoffrén
Filmmaker: Gunilla Cronholm
video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wHi7kO3_I6Q
Filmmaker: Gunilla Cronholm
video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wHi7kO3_I6Q
Benny Andersson and Gothenburg’s New Girls’ Choir
Benny Andersson and Gothenburg’s New Girls’ Choir with choir director Birgitta Mannerström Molin
Gothenburg Chamber Choir under the direction of Gunnar Eriksson
Gothenburg’s Kammarkör and Gothenburg’s New Girls’ Choir under the direction of Gunnar Eriksson
Päyam Tabatabayi
The Gothenburg Combo (David Hansson and Thomas Hansy)
Peter Nordahl and Myrra Malmberg
Stefan Forssén
Martin Bagge and Myrra Malmberg
Benny Andersson and Lars Rudolfsson
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Evert Taube får nytt liv med egen dag
Taube-namnet får nytt liv när musiklegenden får egen dag den 12 mars, Evert Taubes födelsedag. Dagen kommer att bjuda på nytolkningar och uruppföranden av många av Taubes verk.
”Vi måste motverka nedläggningen av Taubes minne och komma ihåg det starka musikarvet han lämnat kvar efter sig”, säger Martin Nyström, musikskribent på DN och organisatör av dagen.
Publicerad: 9 mars 2023, 21:04
Fanny Haeffner
Evert Taube är en av de svenska storheterna vars namn inte får falla i glömska. Det anser bland andra; Abba-medlemmarna Björn Ulvaeus och Benny Andersson, som tillsammans med artisten Håkan Hellström grundade Taube-stiftelsen för tre år sedan. Stiftelsen är med och sponsrar firandet av Taube-dagen den 12 mars, som till stor del grundar sig i ett brinnande engagemang för musikerns arv.
Vad är syftet med dagen?
”Syftet är att fira Evert Taube och levandegöra hans konstnärskap. Liknande minnestraditioner finns för Ingmar Bergman och Astrid Lindgren och det är inte mer än rätt att även denna svenska storhet får en minnesdag”, menar Martin Nyström.
Hur stort är intresset för Taubes musik i dag?
”Enormt stort, men det är samtidigt vilande. På 40-talet och framåt kunde vilken unge som helst sjunga med i en Taube-visa, men så är det inte längre vilket är väldigt tragiskt.”
Varför organiseras dagen just i Göteborg?
”Det är för att den allra största delen av Taube-forskning skett på Göteborgs universitet. Det har även tidigare funnits ett museum på Liseberg, som sedan en tid varit nedlagt tyvärr. Detta är även Evert Taubes födelseort, så många sätt är det passande att dagen firas här. Det finns även mycket symbolik från västkusten och Vinga i Taubes musik. Ett känt citat av honom lyder ”I öster ligger Sverige, men västerut ligger världen.”
Hur finansieras eventet?
”Dels genom Taube-stiftelsen, där medstiftarna Björn Ulvaeus, Benny Andersson och Håkan Hellström varit med och bidragit. Men också genom biljettförsäljning så klart, det är så vi betalar för själva lokalen. Det som blir till övers kommer att gå till något litet att äta och dricka till oss 70 deltagare.”
Vad kan de som köper biljett till konserten vänta sig?
”Det kommer bli ett fullspäckat program med både nytolkningar och uruppföranden av Taubes verk. Göteborgs kammarkör är med och sjunger, tillsammans med en annan kör, sex författare och 12 musiker.”
Evert Taube cobra nueva vida con su propio día
El nombre de Taube cobra nueva vida cuando la leyenda de la música tiene su propio día el 12 de marzo, el cumpleaños de Evert Taube. La jornada ofrecerá nuevas interpretaciones y estrenos de muchas de las obras de Taube.
"Debemos contrarrestar el cierre de la memoria de Taube y recordar el fuerte legado musical que dejó", dice Martin Nyström, escritor musical de DN y organizador del día.
Publicado: 9 de marzo de 2023, 21:04
fanny haeffner
Evert Taube es uno de los grandes suecos cuyo nombre no hay que olvidar. Considera, entre otros; Los miembros de Abba Björn Ulvaeus y Benny Andersson, quienes junto con el artista Håkan Hellström fundaron la fundación Taube hace tres años. La fundación copatrocina la celebración del Día de Taube el 12 de marzo, que se basa en gran medida en un compromiso apasionado con el legado del músico.
¿Cuál es el propósito del día?
"El objetivo es celebrar a Evert Taube y dar vida a su arte. Existen tradiciones conmemorativas similares para Ingmar Bergman y Astrid Lindgren, y es justo que esta grandeza sueca también tenga un día conmemorativo", dice Martin Nyström.
¿Qué tan grande es el interés en la música de Taube hoy?
“Enormemente grande, pero a la vez está descansando. En los años 40 y en adelante, cualquier niño podía cantar una canción de Taube, pero ya no es así, lo cual es muy trágico".
¿Por qué se organiza el día en Gotemburgo?
"Es porque la mayor parte de la investigación de Taube tuvo lugar en la Universidad de Gotemburgo. Anteriormente también ha habido un museo en Liseberg, que lamentablemente ha estado cerrado durante algún tiempo. Este es también el lugar de nacimiento de Evert Taube, por lo que en muchos sentidos es apropiado que el día se celebre aquí. También hay mucho simbolismo de la costa oeste y Vinga en la música de Taube. Una cita famosa de él dice: "Al este se encuentra Suecia, pero al oeste se encuentra el mundo".
miércoles, 1 de marzo de 2023
The Symphonic Touch of Benny Andersson
THE SYMPHONIC TOUCH OF BENNY ANDERSSON....
For the vast majority, he is well known from the Swedish supergroup ABBA. London Philharmonic Orchestra, with the Swedish violin soloist Christian Svarfvar, will release their own selection of Benny Andersson's most beloved compositions this spring.
The symphony orchestra's selection from ABBA, BAO, the musical Chess and Kristina from Duvemåla is a pioneering international initiative by the Swedish arranger and conductor Anders Berglund. – This unique album with Benny Andersson's masterpieces can lead to a broader recognition worldwide for the Swedish violin virtuoso Christian Svarfvar, he says.
The album is recorded with a full orchestral setting in London. The upcoming album "The Symphonic Touch of Benny Andersson" contains twelve instrumental recordings and will be released on April 14, worldwide.
Already on March 10, the first single will be revealed, which will be Christian’s and The London Philharmonic Orchestra's version of ABBA's "Money Money Money" from 1976. Anders Berglund is the conductor and the executive producer of the album. – I am very proud of this unique project and collaboration, he says.
FACTS
After international album successes in 2022 with Wagner, Bach and Brahms, the London Philharmonic Orchestra is proud to interpret a contemporary composer in 2023.
Benny Andersson started as a keyboard player and composer in a Swedish rock band in the sixties.
After meeting Björn Ulvaeus in 1966, his writing developed through their creative enterprise and a couple of years later ABBA was born.
With Benny's music, Björn's lyrics and the girls' voices, the success was unparalleled. Benny has since explored and developed his composing skills through musicals, music for film and theatre, folk music etc.
Björn Ulvaeus has been a very important and invaluable partner over the years, but this album is focused on the actual music composed by Benny. Despite a lack of musical training and not reading sheet music, he writes like a classical composer. This has been Anders Berglund's inspiration for these new arrangements and with the beautiful playing of the virtuoso Christian Svarfvar and the great London Philharmonic Orchestra, this album wants to shed new light on Benny Andersson's music.
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