Erik Satie 150th Birthday Celebration at Betty Nansen Teatret

The theme of this year’s Summer Jazz Festival is Breaking Borders, and if any composer would be a fit to that motto, it would have been French composer and pianist Erik Satie.
The oeuvre of this true original has proven both influential and long-lived. This celebration of Satie pays a jazzed-out tribute to his amazing Dadaistic compositions, his witty approach to composing as well as his influential artistic talent.
Through playful reinterpretations of Satie’s works as well as Satie-inspired improvisations, a rare all-star team made up of outstanding Danish artists invites everybody to partake in a monumental celebration of the unusually unusual Satie....

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The theme of this year’s Summer Jazz Festival is Breaking Borders, and if any composer would be a fit to that motto, it would have been French composer and pianist Erik Satie.
The oeuvre of this true original has proven both influential and long-lived. This celebration of Satie pays a jazzed-out tribute to his amazing Dadaistic compositions, his witty approach to composing as well as his influential artistic talent.
Through playful reinterpretations of Satie’s works as well as Satie-inspired improvisations, a rare all-star team made up of outstanding Danish artists invites everybody to partake in a monumental celebration of the unusually unusual Satie.

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