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<\/a>In Norway, the young musicians, aged 15-18, performed at various venues including the Adventist Church in Mj\u00f8ndalen and in Ulsrud, and at the Norwegian Junior College (Tyrifjord videreg\u00e5ende skole) where they formed a combined choir with local students. Audiences were blessed by the songs and testimonies shared, and were particularly appreciative of the performance of “The Ground” by Norwegian composer Ola Gjeilo.<\/p>\n
Choir conductor Curtis Anderson expressed his gratitude for the reception the musicians received, and the opportunity to play and sing in the beautiful Lutheran parish church in H\u00f8nefoss.<\/p>\n
Deep and Genuine<\/strong><\/p>\n In Sweden the choir and orchestra performed at the Swedish Junior College (Ekebyholmsskolan). G\u00f6ran Hansen, former president of the Swedish Union of Churches, was captivated by the skilled musicians, \u201cI am hugely impressed by the quality of the choir. Both choir and orchestra performed a repertoire that was both deep and genuine.\u201d Moved to tears<\/strong><\/p>\n After the performance in Sweden, the tour continued to N\u00e6rum, in Denmark. There, too, the young musicians played and sang in a packed church. Their last stop on the Scandinavia Tour was in Malm\u00f6, Sweden where organisers had to open an adjacent hall to accommodate everyone. \u201cThe last few songs when the choristers and orchestra performed together were so beautiful that we were moved to tears\u201d, said the local pastor, Christopher Laubscher. The original version of this article was published on the\u00a0Norwegian Union Conference website<\/a>.\u00a0[Photos: Tor Tjeransen\u00a0\/ AME<\/a> \u00a0-CC BY 4.0].<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Young musicians from the USA delight Scandinavian audiences <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":14087,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,1590,1577],"tags":[205,1424,1426,287,211,1427,218,1425],"class_list":["post-14085","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-norway","category-organisational-updates","tag-academy","tag-choir","tag-columbia","tag-news","tag-norway","tag-scandinavia","tag-tour","tag-upper"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ted.adventist.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14085","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ted.adventist.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ted.adventist.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ted.adventist.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ted.adventist.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14085"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/ted.adventist.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14085\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14144,"href":"https:\/\/ted.adventist.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14085\/revisions\/14144"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ted.adventist.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14087"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ted.adventist.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14085"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ted.adventist.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14085"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ted.adventist.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14085"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nPeople in the community also showed much interest and appreciation, filling the church to capacity, even though the concert took place on a weekday. \u201cIn the history of the Junior College, we have never heard such beautiful and fine music\u201d, said one concertgoer who has lived at the college since the 1960s.<\/p>\n
\n\u201cIt has been a pleasure to collaborate and connect with the people from Upper Columbia Academy\u201d, reflected Elbj\u00f8rg Keyn Lundstr\u00f6m, music teacher at the Norwegian Junior College and tour organiser.<\/p>\n
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