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Show i Swedish Radio Choir to Perform '. A -.' y . - Eric Ericson x The Swedish Radio Choir, one of the most prestigious' choral ensembles in the world, will sing in Symphony Hall on March 3 at 7:30 p.m. Announcement came Saturday Sa-turday from Dr. Ed Thompson, Thomp-son, chairman of the University Univer-sity of Utah department of music, who said that the concert was part of the choir's second tour of the United States. . The Swedish Radio Choir (SRC) performs a broad range of choral repertoire but, because of the remarkable remark-able skill and extraordinary training of its singers under Eric Ericson, focuses on contemporary arrangements of traditional choral music. Mr. Ericson was trained as a church musician at the Royal College of Music in Stockholm and later studied in Basel, Switzerland; and in Germany, England and the United States. His professional Tareer began in 1945 with the . formation of the Stockholm Chamberchoir. Six years later he became conductor of the Swedish Radio Choir and the Orphei Drangar, a male chorus based in Uppsala, Sweden. In the following year, he was named a lecturer in choral conducting at the Royal College of Music and obtained his professorship professor-ship there in 1968. During his entire career, Ericson has fostered widespread appreciation appre-ciation of choral conductors as persons and of choral conducting as an art. "He has put his indelible stamp on Scandinavian choral cho-ral music for more than a quarter of a century," Dr. Thompson said. "In recent years he has worked with several conductors in the United States and elsewhere, so that his techniques have been shared outside of Sweden." His choirs have appeared throughout the world, mostly on the strength of the 15 international tours that the SRC has made since 1965. The SRC also has recorded for EMI, RCA and Telefunk-en, Telefunk-en, often with famous soloists. One such album was awarded the German Recording Re-cording Prize in 1971 and the Dutch Edison Prize in 1972. Widely recorded elsewhere both a cappella and with orchestras or small ensembles, ensem-bles, the choir also recorded some of the soundtrack for Ingmar Bergman's film production pro-duction of Mozart's "The Magic Flute." Dr. Jerold Ottley, director of the Mormon Tabernacle Choir, said the he had changed his regular Thursday Thurs-day night rehearsal to another night so that members mem-bers of the Choir could attend the concert. "We'll change rehearsal night for a world war, a cricket invasion or the Swedish Radio Choir," he laughed. Another famous choral director, Norman Luboff, also is lavish in his praise of the Swedish Radio Choir. When contacted recently in Sweden, he said, "One of the finest ensembles in the world, the Swedish Radio Choir has set new standards for choral music and choral singing in this century." The SRC's 32 singers are all highly trained soloists with many years of vocal and musical study to their credit. They are superlative musicians musi-cians who rehearse an average of 30 hours per month, |
