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Konsert för trombon och orkester

Act I: 60 min

So beautiful floating in space

Tina Andersson has set a text by the American poet

Ombre Alfred Lord Tennyson it opens up and beginsFrom Calligrammes Commentary I have been an avid reader of Guillaume Apollinaire's surrealistic poetry ever since I traveled to Paris as a teenager in the late 1970s. There I discovered his poetry and brought it back with me when I returned home to my native Sweden. I immediately fell for the blend of humor, sorrow, longing for love and peace and innovation that I found in Apollinaire's poems. He was at the forefront when modernism was established in