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dous farewell present. Due the local concert. You can choir. I'm sure you noticed touch. It created a lot of
to my new position, I was say that it became as much Cato the postman, Aso the friendship, and I have just
unable to continue to my project as anybody Kurd, Olav the young disab- heard that they meet once a
conduct the Ensemble96, else's, and the TV crew just led person, etc. It was a tre- month, at a pub called
but they are still around and followed my ideas and mendous challenge, but at Rudolf.
they are doing very well. edited it. the same time extremely
rewarding. I was very impressed over
0: Could you tell us The main goal was to go on the progress of the choir,
something about the a musical journey, while the Q: Did the choir conti- and the final concert with
S i n g i n g final goal is to end up with nue after the program- the Oslo Philharmonic
Neighbourhood? classical music. Stovner was me? Orchestra was something
chosen for its diversity. It's really outstanding and
It was the Norwegian an area with more than They wanted to continue very emotional.
National TV channel NRK 30,000 inhabitants coming with me as conductor, but
that asked me if I would be from all over the world, and unfortunately I do not have Leaving Oystein with his
interested in this challenge. it has suffered from a bad enough time to do so. different endeavours, we
The programme was based reputation. We wanted to However, a lot of them have only hope that some of our
on a TV series shown on show people that it is long kept in touch and, not long readers would also be inspi-
Channel 5 in the United journey from Stovner to the ago, Olav the guy with cere- red by the positive message
Kingdom, called the Concert Hall not geogra- bral palsy turned 40, and lot nothing is really impossi-
Singing Estate. NRK bought phically, but socio-cultural- of the singers including ble if you really want it
the rights and we adapted it. ly. myself participated in his
I added my ideas on how to birthday party. This summer
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Paris; visit the Paris Opera; a have some very nice and party at my summer yang, no
concert at the Oslo Stadium; touching characters in the house— so we do keep in

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