The Norwegian-Danish writer Maren Uthaug (51) gets good grades both as an author and for his literary performance in a concert with Danmarks Radio’s entertainment orchestra.
From the critic in it Danish major newspaper Berlingske Tidende Maren Uthaug is nevertheless placed in the middle of the spotlight for an artistic murder, or at best cultural crash, in the mixed genre of classical music and literature.
“Dice roll 1: The most terrifying concert Berlingske’s reviewer has attended” is the headline of the newspaper review.
– They took a major work by the great Mozart and added a nasty dose of necrophilia to it. The very concept of the concert was so completely and consistently terrifying. Poor dead composers. Poor audience. Poor me, writes reviewer and cultural editor Søren Kassebeer (62).
– POOR, DEAD MOZART: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was only 35 years old (1756 – 1791). He deserved something other than being linked to a necrophilic funeral agent, Berlingske Tidende believes after a recent concert in Copenhagen. Here reconstructed in his home in Salzburg. Illustration: C. Schweninger/NTB. view more
– What was the point?
Nekrofili er i Major medical encyclopedias described as “a rare sexual inclination in which one feels attracted to corpses.”
The entertainment orchestra, equivalent to our own Broadcasting Orchestra, played classical works Bach, Purcell and Mozart.
– Lovely, is the comment from Berlingske’s reviewer.
Then he gets his bag more than full of the author from Kautokeino and Copenhagen.
Maren Uthaug reads from her own novel “A happy ending”, which was given a dice roll of 5 by Dagbladet’s reviewer when it was published in Norwegian in 2021.
– It is about a necrophilic funeral agent and his thoughts about himself and his desires. It contains sickening descriptions of necrophilic tendencies and necrophilic practices. The author was dressed as an undertaker with a couple of urns and coffins and some artificial smoke alongside soloists, choir and orchestra. The words were so disgusting that I cannot bring myself to reproduce them here. What was the point? Does the organizer assume that Mozart himself dreamed of sex with a human without a soul? writes and asks Berlingske’s reviewer after the concert.
Tingling about sex and death
Uthaug: – A fantastic experience
Then he has already described the author, who has served him a sickening experience:
– Maren Uthaug is not without qualities, either as a writer or performer. On the contrary.
What does the author himself say about the slaughter character in Berlingske and about the text and music arrangement in general?
– For me it was a fantastic, completely wild experience. I think music and words went into a higher unity. Other feedback from the audience has been that it was precisely both a crazy and wild experience. It went deep into the soul, she writes to Dagbladet.
She adds that she has not read the review in Berlingske. And about the whole concert and reading, she refers to the Entertainment Orchestra’s management, who put together the programme.
– Can’t stand men
– Desperate hunt
– Did you choose the text yourself or did you receive a concrete order for this text?
– I was free to rent. The theme of the event was “The Tones of Death”. Therefore, it was completely natural to pick texts from the book “A happy ending”. I mostly think it’s a love story, although some reviewers called the book “A cultural-historical death tour de force” when it was published in Denmark. Berlingske called it “diabolical and controversial”, which it probably is, replies Maren Uthaug.
The Danish newspaper asks itself the question whether there was a deeper idea behind “this bizarre afternoon”.
– Absolutely not. I think it was about the fact that the classical music scene, in its increasingly desperate search for an audience, finds itself forced to resort to exaggerated marketing and sought-after concepts, the reviewer answers his own question.
Dagbladet’s preliminary conclusion:
Danish concert and cultural reviews can be more dramatic than Norwegian ones.
2023-11-07 08:22:26
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