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NWT 100315<\/strong><\/p>\n

By: LOVISA ERIKSSON<\/p>\n

Anniversary
\nSinging Society Manhem with Helen Sj\u00f6holm, Martin \u00d6stergren and Jojje Wadenius
\nSundsta auditorium, Karlstad
\nAttendance: 1500<\/strong><\/p>\n

Jubilee, jubilee! Tenors and basses in long lines. Fifty-four male singers have entered the stage to celebrate their 120th anniversary. What could better start this jubilee than Abrahamsen’s Jubilee Cantata, the for the chorus naming “Hymn till F\u00e4derneslandet” and Bellman’s “Gubben \u00e4r gammal”? Helen Sj\u00f6holm says there’s something special about a male choir. It’s sensual. Beautiful Fascinating. But four years ago the Singing Society Manhem consisted only of 16 brave singers. Today they are 61, under the leadership of Erik Rynefors. And though they sometimes also sound more like an old men’s choir than a male choir, Manhem has once again proved that 120 years after their foundation they\u2019re still alive and well. Or more than that really, the singers in Manhem sing and thrive. That they like to sing strongly, they prove during the evening. In “Dagen \u00e4r n\u00e4ra” the choir sings straight into our hearts, and there they stay for the rest of the evening.<\/p>\n

If the introduction is aptly, the choice of guests is quite right too. To help with the celebration, Helen Sj\u00f6holm, Martin \u00d6stergren and Jojje Wadenius are invited on stage. The combination is perfect. Helen Sj\u00f6holm\u2019s exuberant stage personality gives life to the concert. Martin Ostergren on piano and Jojje Wadenius on guitars and bass increase the musical impression. Jojje Wadenius excels in all of his solos, a little bit extra in his self-composed “K\u00e4rleksmorgon”. Martin Ostergren is joking a bit in “En s\u00e5ng som handlar om sig sj\u00e4lv”.<\/p>\n

The trio Sj\u00f6holm, \u00d6stergren and Wadenius offers words of humor, empathy, musical poetry and hits from the Swedish charts. Helen Sj\u00f6holm offers herself with spontaneity and a powerful voice. Together with the choir, she creates the evening’s highlights in G\u00e4rdestad’s “Come Give Me Love”, tonight’s hit \u201cV\u00e5r sista dans” and grand “Duvem\u00e5la hage” where Erik Rynefors picks up the violin. Sobbing can be heard around the auditorium when Helen Sj\u00f6holm sings “Gabriellas S\u00e5ng”, accompanied by the male choir. It can\u00b4t be more beautiful and more intimate than this.<\/p>\n

When the choir during the evening has performed Fr\u00f6ding poems, set to music, and traditional folk songs and then ends up with “Glad s\u00e5som f\u00e5geln”, you can not feel anything else but that spring has started for real.<\/p>\n

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NWT 100315 By: LOVISA ERIKSSON Anniversary Singing Society Manhem with Helen Sj\u00f6holm, Martin \u00d6stergren and Jojje Wadenius Sundsta auditorium, Karlstad Attendance: 1500 Jubilee, jubilee! Tenors Read More …<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":1476,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1594","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/helensjoholm.nu\/_eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1594","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/helensjoholm.nu\/_eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/helensjoholm.nu\/_eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helensjoholm.nu\/_eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helensjoholm.nu\/_eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1594"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/helensjoholm.nu\/_eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1594\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helensjoholm.nu\/_eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1476"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/helensjoholm.nu\/_eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1594"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}