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By: SARA SCHÜLDT
Helen Sjöholm, Anders Berglund and Fredrik Lycke are sold on Sondheim. This evening they celebrate the musical master with the Symphony Orchestra.
– His music is eating into your body, Helen Sjöholm says.
Interest in tonight’s concert by the Symphony Orchestra and guests Helen Sjöholm, Anders Berglund and Fredrik Lycke has been great – it´s sold out since a long time.
– It´s completely sold out. Full up the roof, says Kerstin Högberg Karlstrom, sales manager at SON.
In a few weeks, on March 22, one of the musical world’s great masters, composer Stephen Sondheim, is 80 years old. Artist Anders Berglund wanted to pay attention to that.
– His music is very cohesive, lyrics and music are a unit. But it requires singers who can interpret a text and get the message across. When I got my dream performers the concert was obvious, Anders Berglund says.
Long relationship
Five concerts were released earlier in the Berwald Hall in Stockholm with Helen Sjöholm and Peter Jöback – which is now being replaced by Fredrik Lycke. The program includes music from Follies, West Side Story and Company.
Fredrik has a long and heartfelt relationship to Stephen Sondheim musical. One of his first musical role was A Little Night Music, based on Ingmar Bergman’s film “Sommarnattens leende”.
– He is an exciting composer who is not satisfied to do the same. He finds new themes and does not repeat himself, says Fredrik Lycke.
Helen Sjöholm knew a few songs and had to sit and listen through the material.
– It was exciting. Now I am a hardcore fan, she says enthusiastically. It’s incredible how a composer can have such a wide variety in his music. It´s no wonder that so many musical artists love his dramatic lyrics.
Scary pies
She would like to do the role of the pie baker in the macabre Sweeney Todd, a musical that Tim Burton a few years ago made a movie of with Johnny Depp in the leading role. Pies are made of human flesh, delivered from a barber who cuts the throat of his customers in his barber`s shop.
– It’s funny, totally absurd. It´s my dream role, and I hope someone will set it up, says Helen Sjöholm.