![]() About a ‘terrible’, powerful beauty, although the music is quite serene on the surface: Most of all, this piece and its text is about beauty. is my home now, so I guess my work has been increasingly reflecting my love for American music, writing and scenery. “ Northern Lights is my most Norwegian production in years composed in an attic outside of Oslo at Christmas time in 2007, it’s one of the few works I have written in Norway since I moved to New York in 2001. So, here are Ola’s own words recounting his experience witnessing the northern lights and how this inspiring event moved him to write the piece of the same name: ![]() I thought, wow, how serendipitous that the Phoenix Chorale has released our newest recording (featuring Ola’s music and titled Northern Lights) at the same time these amazing images are coming from Norway. He also talked about the piece he’d written of the same name, “Northern Lights.” ![]() ![]() I know this because I was having lunch with Ola Gjeilo recently and he mentioned the northern lights were happening. The northern lights are happening right now in Norway and are reported to be the most intense display of this fantastic phenomenon the country has seen in decades. ![]()
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