Thursday, December 3, 2015
St. Petersburg
By mid-October the Danish Cultural Institute in St. Petersburg hosted a conference on Carl Nielsen with many Russian researchers and musicians participating. I contributed a paper and possibly acted as "key-note" speaker. The travel included a lecture at the Rimsky Korsakov Conservatory and a presentation in the city of Petrozavodsk, where the conservatory is known to be the northernmost in the world. I was happily accompanied by Finn Andersen, the committed and inventive head of the institute. His Russian wife, Elena, fluent in Danish, acted as my expert interpreter. With a week in the a spacy flat at Fontanka, belonging to the institute, the visit was truly memorable.
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Wednesday, December 2, 2015
Skt. Petersborg
Det danske kulturinstitut i Skt. Petersborg afholdt medio oktober en konference om Carl Nielsen med deltagelse af en række russiske kendere og forskere. Jeg bidrog med et foredrag og fungerede desuden som en slags tovholder. Ruslands-rejsen indeholdt også en række andre forligtelser, bl.a. et foredrag på Rinskij Korsakov konservatoriet og en rejse til konservatoriet i Petrozavodsk, vistnok det nordligste i verden. Jeg var ledsaget af Finn Andersen, fantasifuld og engageret leder af instituttet. Hans russiske hustru, Elena, taler perfekt dansk og var min fremragende tolk. Med en uge i instituttets rummelige lejlighed ved Fontanka blev opholdet i den prægtige by nindeværdigt.
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