On Anne-Lise Berntsen –
a Different Kind of Concert Performance
Anne-Lise Berntsen´s performing style is deeply personal. It is
rooted in her commitment to human conditions throughout history up to
the present.
She performs for everybody. Though her platform is classical, she also
makes use of shanties, gipsy-, folk-, cabaret-, peace- and war songs,
musicals, pop ballades, chansons and contemporary classical music, as
well as improvizations.
She is explaining the historical periods and the thoughts contained
therein, her function beeing that of a crooner. Anne-Lise Berntsen offers
concert series and single concerts on subjects like:
• Places and persons: their history
• Woman’s Lib
• Car, train, airplane: how to get around
• War And Peace
• Centuries of Revolutions
• Emigrants and Immigrants
• Factory: from Man to Minichips
• The Paper, the Radio, the Movie: media
… and much, much more..Each subject is investigated with genuine
curiosity.
Anne-Lise Berntsen carries a heart for the astonishing as well as the
touching in both word and music.
Look forward to an experience out of the ordinary! (read
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On the Projects
Anne-Lise Berntsens main projects are narrative concerts
or concert series on themes dealing with History – on how the history
of ideas continuously lives in all of us.
The setting of each concert is a given place during a given period of
time.
She unveils the structure of that society, whose different layers are
described by her choices of music. Through her repertoire she is shedding
a musical light on the condition of man past and present.
History
• Europe Changing - And America Too: from 1600 onwards…
(Europe....)
• The City – the Country – the World: anywhere
in Norway and some cities in the USA (The
City.....)
• Cities of Light: On Rjukan, Norway and Buffalo, USA 1890-1930
• Emigrants and Immigrants: on Scandinavia and the US
(Emigrants......)
• History And Heritage: on North Korea and Norway,
similarities and differences
• War and Peace: UN soldiers, WWII veterans, the Red Cross
and more (War...)
• Millennium: Man and Music Through 1000 Years, 5 concert
lectures
• Mad and Sad: on mental illness 1700 and
today
• Hildegard: from Medieval Music to Gorecki
and Jazz Music (Hildegard....)
Experimental
• Angels Arrow: Norwegian Religious Folk Songs in a very
special setting (Angels Arrow)
• Come Rain: Angels Arrow continiued (Angels
Arrow)
• On the Contemporary: a series of 6
TV programs presenting young Norwegian composers (On
the ....)
• Master Class: ALB coaching her students
on stage (Master...)
• Meditations On the Name Jesus: from the medevial up to the
contemporary (Meditations...)
• Between Voice and Silence: staged church happening
with improvized dance and music as well as Gorecki (Between...)
• Schönberg Consulting Freud: Cabaret and Classical
Music in hysterical harmony (Consulting...)
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