Julie's Blog

2pm, Leif Erikson Hall, 3/28/09

julieos — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 16:11:46 +0000

Practice at home!!! Warm up 1:30pm in Library.

Alle fugler små de er
Nordlandsnetter
Serenade
Blue moon
Per Spelmann (yup)
Sailors Greeting
Sølvet

Have on hand:
Bruremarsj
Barndomsminne

NLC Fiskekaker og Kjøttkaker Middag!

julieos — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 18:18:00 +0000

The Norwegian Ladies Chorus Fishcake and Meatball dinner is Sunday, MARCH 8, 2009, at 4:30PM, at the Leif Erikson Lodge in Ballard. The August Werner Scholarship fundraiser highlights our famous fishcakes made by Liv, the best fish-caker in the Northwest. Eat until you’re full and then visit the NLC’s fabulous dessert buffet. The ladies will sing a couples songs for you, and Ballard High’s Jazz ensemble will perform, too.

2009 NLC Songlist

julieos — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 16:42:39 +0000

Here is the current list of songs to keep in your folder. If you’re missing one of them, don’t panic, maybe it hasn’t been passed out yet. The main focus here is to cleanse your folder of all the other music. In other words… any song you have in your folder that you don’t see on this list, please remove it and turn it in! This list will be updated periodically.

Blue Moon/I Like the Flowers/Eg ve te Bergen
Per Spelmann
Såri, råri, liten sull.
Seilersang
Aasmund Frægdegjævar
Sangerhilsen (the version starting with Lad os hvirvle)
Bruremarsj
America the Beautiful
Sailors Greeting-Hils fra meg der hjemme
Alle Mann Hadde Fota
Nordlandsnetter
Lullabye
In Paradisum
Og jeg vil ha mig en hjertens kjær
Sølvet
Landkjenning. Landsighting
Deilig er Jorden
Serenade
Unforgettable

I would love to hear your comments! Remember to let me know if you want to keep your comments confidential!

Eg ve te Bergen

julieos — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 18:22:35 +0000

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yxsoykCYWIw

Åsmund Frægdegjæva

julieos — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 06:06:40 +0000

The king promises his daughter (cN: sister) to Åsmund if he will go north the the country of trolls to get her free. (cN: Åsmund sails there with his two brothers.) Åsmund arrives at the mountain where the princess is, kills a female ogre and takes the princess down to his ship. The ship is gone (cN: with the two brothers on board). Åsmund returns to the mountain, kills a lot of ogres and finds a horse that promises to carry him and the princess if Åsmund will promise to give the horse his right hand. They ride home across the sea. Åsmund cuts the horse’s head off and it turns into a man, the princess’ brother.
- according to TSB (The Types of Scandinavian Medieval Ballads, ed Bengt Jonsson)

~ There are many collections of this ballad. One that is similar to the one we sing can be found here: http://www.forn-sed.no/folkesagn/folkesagn/folkeviser_kvad/3.shtml

I’m back!

julieos — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 04:32:58 +0000

It’s all about the music, and the camaraderie, and the fishcakes, and the music. I missed you all sooo much! Please don’t mind my babbling, I’m new to blogging and am just trying to figure out if this format will help me be more effective in communicating. This is not a replacement for the NLC website, but a way for you to check in and see if there’s anything new from the director. Maybe someday there will be a director’s page on the NLC website where you can log in using a password and get the song lists, sheet music perhaps, and listen to recordings of your parts, etc. For right now this will have to do. Happy New Year!

Here is a list of music to turn in! (for starters)

Jeg er så glad,

Nå tennes tusen julelys

O Jul med din glede

På låven sitter nissen

Hei Tomtegubber

Julvisa

Winter Wonderland

Still, Still, Still

Julenatt

Glade Jul

Det Kimer nå til julefest

Det Hev ei rose sprunge

Singing as thanks for payment!

julieos — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 05:06:26 +0000

The Swedish Radio Chorus has been catching people off guard and singing takk (thanks) for paying their TV license fees. Since the campaign of singing thanks candid camera style began, they have tallied over 23,000 new subscribers. How fun is that? I wonder what would happen if KCTS tried this? Or, maybe it could be the new NLC fund raising strategy? Ja!?

http://www.nrk.no/nyheter/kultur/1.6384367

Let it snow, let it snow, let it snow!

julieos — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 02:35:44 +0000

Do you know what I love about living in Seattle? It’s so exciting when it snows! Welcome to my first “post” on my first Blog. HAPPY NEW YEAR!