Lucrum

Exempel6

Composed for	Helsingborg Symphony Orchestra
Opus Number	57
Category	Orchestral music
Year	2018
Duration	7
Orchestration	2222-4231-2perc-66442
Orchestration version 2	2222-2200-1perc-66442
Availability	Gehrmans Musikförlag

Program note

My orchestra piece “Lucrum” Op.57 is composed for the Helsingborg Symphony Orchestra and the piece was premiered on 3 May 2018 under the batton of Michael Bartosch. The season programme of the orchestra was themed “The seven deadly sins”, and therefore I was also asked to compose a piece inspired by one of the deadly sins. “Lucrum” is inspired by the deadly sin greed and the latin word lucrum translates in to English as profit, gain, advantage, riches and of course greed.

In this piece I have tried to express the emotions I feel that greed provokes, namely a bitterness of not having everything and always wanting to have more, even when you already have excessive amounts of everything. I feel greed can always be seen as something growing, which is also mirrored in our materialistic free market society, as well as in this piece of music.

For the Finnish first performance I have made a new version of the piece for a slightly smaller orchestra. The Finnish premiere will be performed by Jyväskylä Sinfonia in concerts on the 29th and 30th of August 2018. The concerts will be conducted by the conducting class of professor Ari Rasilainen from the Hochschule für Musik Würzburg.

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