instruments   symphony orchestra

1 picc 2 fl 3 ob 2 cl 1 bcl 2 fg 1cfg 4cor 3trpt 3trbn 1tuba 1 timp 3 perc harp *) str.

*) The harp part may be doubled ad lib.

year of production 2009

commissioned by Göteborgs Symfoniker

dedication Stefan Solyom

duration 8‘   

first performance
April 2 2009
Konserthuset, Gothenburg

Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra
Stefan Solyom

publisher  

excerpts from score!

work comments

The word Jubilate has its standing point in the phenomenon of spectators cheering with an inner power of joy and the experience to be part of the powerful jubilation. Its counterpart; to boo out and causing a riot like crazy hooligans that are sabotizing the festivities in which can end into total destruction. These roles are present in today’s society on big events, mainly in sports and culture. Musically it is translated into two antithesis: tonal versus atonal, loud versus soft, organic to mechanic and so on. These developments break and dissolve during the course of the work that are uniting towards the end.

other performances

April 3 2009
Konserthuset, Vara

Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra
Stefan Solyom

February 25 2010
City Halls, Glasgow UK PREMIERE

BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Stefan Solyom
Radio broadcast (both analog and on internet)  on March 2nd BBC Radio 3.

Reviews on Jubilate:

2009
April 2 WORLD PREMIERE!
Konserthuset, Göteborg
Göteborgs Symfoniker

Stefan Solyom

[…] ”A title has surely seldom had such complete coverage in the course

of sounding events as this one. Staern included all the prerequisites

of the large orchestra in his music… Magnificent sonorities and

Staern’s glorious, intense emotionalism are certainly contagious

regardless with whichever ears one listened." […]

Håkan Dahl, Göteborgsposten, April 3 2009.

April 3

Konserthuset, Vara
Göteborgs Symfoniker

Stefan Solyom

[…] ”It was turbo-charged music with tremendous power of sound and

musical substance.…The music blowed like an upbuilding storm upon us.” […]

Bo Borg, Nya Lidköpings Tidningar, April 6 2009

2010

February 25 UK PREMIERE
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra

Stefan Solyom
City Halls, Glasgow, Scotland

”Benjamin Staern’s Jubilate proved a brilliant opener that did what it said on the tin and had everything from fanfares and flourishes to (virtually) the arrival of the Seventh Cavalry”.

Michael Tumelty. The Herald

”With a programme featuring Shostakovich's Symphony No. 10 alongside Sibelius's Violin Concerto, this was destined to be an evening of epic performances...the UK première of Benjamin Staern's Jubilate, with its theatrical narrative and clashing fanfares, set the pace.”

Living Scotsman, February 27th 2010

Conductor and dedicatee Stefan Solyom at  Hauptbahnhof in Berlin