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Under the Autumn Star

An homage to Knut Hamsun

Milan, Italy, 17 – 20 November 2005

PROGRAM

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Photo exibition "In the realm of the Midnight Sun", by Bjørn Erik Olsen.
In the ancient Courtyard of Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore di Milano (Largo Gemelli) and at Cinema Gnomo, from Wednesday 16th to Sunday 20th November.

Thursday 17. november

1400-1700 "Culture - resources - internationalization".

Day-seminar arranged by the Hamsun Foundation and Sparebank 1 Nord-Norge.

"Which possibilities lie in the international economic cooperation?"
Rolf Almklov, Innovation Norway in Milan.

"Which possibilities of selling within the EU-market do Northern-

"Norwegian firms have " ?
By Vice adm, Dir Oddmund Åsen, Sparebanken Nord-Norge

"Possibilities of international cooperation from the point of view of a County Council".
By Special Counsellor Per Eidsvik, Nordland Fylkeskommune

18.00 FILM: The Wanderes (Landstrykere)

20.30 FILM: The telegraphist (Telegrafisten)

22.15 FILM: The Wanderes (rerun)

Friday 18th November

1200 –1400 "Travel & Tourism in Hamsun's Realm": business lunch with Italian

tour-operators. Reiseliv i Hamsuns rike in collaboration with

Innovation Norway in Milan. NB! BY INVITATION ONLY.

1400 - 1630 "Knut Hamsun as international brand".

Mini-seminar on culturally-based economic development.

"Hamsun as an international door-opener".

"Ibsen's year 2006 and Hamsun's year 2009"

"Hamsun in a Council/ County Council strategy"

18.30 OFFICIAL OPENING OF "Under the Autumn star: an homage to Knut Hamsun"

Palazzina Liberty, Largo Marinai d'Italia.

With the partecipation of the musicians from Musikk i Nordland.

Introduction by Heidi Sætre, Culture County Counsellor for Nordland.

A sample of the Arctic Menu.

21.00 Concert by the ensemble Musikk i Nordland.
Palazzina Liberty

W.A. Mozart (1756-1791)

Adagio
Fuge (etter en original fuge av Bach)

Arnold Schönberg (1874-1951)

Kammersymfoni nr 1. op 9
(Bearbeidet av A. Webern)
Langsam
Sehr rasch
Viel langsamer, aber doch fliessend
Viel langsamer
Etwas bewegter

Edvard Grieg (1843-1907)

Strykekvartett nr. 2 i F-Dur, EG 117 (ufullendt)
Sostenuto - Allegro vivace e grazioso
Allegro scherzando - Più vivo

Jean Francaix (1912-1997)

Oktett for klarinett, horn, fagott og strykere
"A huit"
Moderato – Allegrissimo
Scherzo - Trio
Andante – Adagio
Movement de Valse

MUSICIANS

Arvid Engegård            -           violin, artistic leader
Øivind Nussle               -           violin
Johannes Skyberg        -           viola
Hans-Urban Andersson -           cello
Håkon Thelin                -           double bass
Inge Rolland                 -           flute
Ole Kristoffersen           -           clarinet
Anton Biehe                 -           bassoon
Kari Knardal                 -           horn
Torleif Torgersen            -           clavier

(FILM: 20.00 Two Green Feathers (Pan), 22.00 The Telegraphist (Telegrafisten) - reprise

Saturday 19th November

Literature seminar
place: Cinemo Gnomo

10.00 Opening of seminar by Even Arntzen. Leader of Hamsun-project University of Tromsø.

10.30 - 11.00 Nils Magne Knutsen, University of Tromsø: "Hamsun and Northern

Norway". With slides.

11.00 - 11.30 Even Arntzen, University of Tromsø:

"Knut Hamsun as early Modernist."

11.30 - 11.45 Kunstnerisk innslag ved Musikk i Nordland.

11.45 - 12.15 Fulvio Ferrari, University of Trento:

" The reception of Hamsun in Italy"

12.15 - 12.45 Massimo Ciaravolo, University of Firenze.

"Hamsun and nazism – from an Italian point of view"

12.45 - 13.00 Emilia Lodigiani, publisher, Iperborea:

"Hamsun in Italiy – why and for whom"?

13.00 - 14.30 Lunch

14.30 - 15.00 "The engagement celebration"

Knut Hamsun Secondary School presents an excerpt from a newly composed musical based on the novel Victoria. With the participation of the Hamarøy mixed choir and the ensemble Musikk i Nordland.

15.00 - 15.30 Henning Howlid Werp, University of Tromsø: "Knut Hamsun as a poet of nature."

15.30 - 16.00 Linda Hamrin Nesby, researcher: "Nature's fuction in Pan"

16.00 - 16.30 Ronald Nilsen Altinius: "He can get the corn from Egypt. Nature as physical toil or as agrarian idyll?

The growth of the Soil in a global perspective".

16.30 - 17.00 Recital of selected passages from Hamsun's novel – in Norwegian and Italian.

18.00 Film: The enigma Knut Hamsun

21.00 Presentation of the novel "Dina's Book" by Herbjørg Wassmo. By Alice

Tonzig and Roberta Mazzanti (Publisher, Giunti).

To follow: film "I am Dina" (Dir. Ole Bornedal, 2002)

21.30 Film: "I am Dina" (reg. Ole Bornedal. 2002)