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- Nordenstrom, Gladys (Mercedes)
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Nordblom, Johan Erik(b Uppsala, 13 April 1788; d Uppsala, 26 Dec 1848). Swedish singer, teacher and composer. In Uppsala he was a pupil of J.C.F. Haeffner, whom he succeeded both as director musices of the university orchestra and as organist of the cathedral. However, he preferred to work in Stockholm, where he often sang at concerts as a bass soloist and where he also taught singing. His singing tutor (1836–40) was used in all the Swedish secondary schools. His instrumental works have remained unpublished, but his solo songs and songs for men’s chorus (e.g. Härliga land) were greatly admired. He became a member of the Swedish Royal Academy of Music in 1827. His daughter Johanna Maria (1827–1909) was also a distinguished singer; she married the composer P.A. Ölander. BIBLIOGRAPHYJ.M. Rosén: ‘Erik Nordblom’, Några minnesblad, ii (Stockholm, 1877), 78–9 G. Kallstenius: Blad ur Uppsalasångens historia (Stockholm, 1913) A. Helmer: Svensk solosång 1850–1890 (Stockholm, 1972) F. Bohlin: ‘Från Haeffner till Alfvén’, Akademiska kapellet i Uppsala under 350 år (Uppsala, 1977), 45–7 FOLKE BOHLIN Nordenstrom, Gladys (Mercedes)(b Pokegama Township, MN, 23 May 1924). American composer. She studied singing, the trumpet and the piano before enrolling at Hamline University in St Paul, where she studied composition with Krenek (BA 1946, MA 1947). In the summer of 1946 she also studied philosophy and literature at the University of Minnesota. She married Krenek in 1950 and moved with him to Los Angeles; they settled in Palm Springs in 1966. She composed independently of him, though they discussed the texts of their vocal works in detail. Her compositions are all atonal and highly expressionistic. Her El Greco phantasie (1965) is a strict 12-note work in which the row is constantly rotated, while the spirit of Webern informs the tightly knit and intense Elegy for Robert F. Kennedy (1968) and Work for Orchestra no.3 (1975). Electronic sounds are combined with organ in Signals from Nowhere (1973). She has received several commissions and her works have been performed in America and Europe. WORKS(selective list)
BIBLIOGRAPHYW. Szmolyan: ‘Die Komponistin Gladys Nordenstrom-Krenek’, ÖMz, xxxv (1980), 445 only B. Grigsby: ‘Women Composers of Electronic Music in the United States’, The Musical Woman: an International Perspective, i, ed. J.L. Zaimont and others (Westport, CT, 1984), 193 only GARRETT BOWLES Nordentoft, Anders(b 1957). Danish composer. He studied composition at the Royal Danish Academy of Music in Copenhagen with Nørholm and Abrahamsen, and also studied with Nørgård in Århus. In addition he has received a diploma in the violin from the Royal Danish Academy of Music. His breakthrough came with the work for chamber orchestra Entgegen (1985). With the setting of texts by Sylvia Plath, in The Shadow of this Lip … for soprano, violin and piano (1988–90), he began to write more melodiously. This has gradually led to a more lyrical tone, which seeks delicate sensations and shimmering progressions. He has said that he aims to write music which is ‘both fantastic and ordinary. … My music is not concerned with idyll vis-à-vis disasters, or with absolute blackness vis-à-vis jubilation. Rather it explores the moderate but also expressive and infinitely faceted universe of friendship’. This aesthetic is found in the cello concerto Sweet Kindness (1996), Distant Night Ship (1996) for orchestra and the ensemble work Hymne (1996). His musical idiom no longer works on the basis of polarized quantities, as his works of the latter half of the 1980s had done. In The City of Threads (1994), Zenevera sesio (1992) and Hymne, Nordentoft, who is primarily a composer of instrumental music, works with two time elements: one he calls ‘nutid’ (the present), expressed in the melodic movement which propels the music; the other is a kind of ‘evig-tid’ (eternity), which in Zenevera sesio is expressed through the flowing movements of the strings, in Hymne through a constant circling around individual notes, and in The City of Threads it is the repeated note and the sustained sound of the closing that expresses this element of ‘evig-tid’ which here represents the unchangeable in man. His works have received increasing interest from outside Denmark. Several of his works have been conducted by Oliver Knussen, and Nordentoft has received commissions from such ensembles as Capricorn, the London Sinfonietta and the Joachim Piano Trio. WORKS
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