{"id":89393,"date":"2023-02-15T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-02-15T17:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.allclassical.org\/?p=89393"},"modified":"2026-01-14T12:12:22","modified_gmt":"2026-01-14T20:12:22","slug":"john-pitman-review-eldbjorg-hemsings-arctic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.allclassical.org\/john-pitman-review-eldbjorg-hemsings-arctic\/","title":{"rendered":"John Pitman Review: Eldbj\u00f8rg Hemsing&#8217;s &#8216;Arctic&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>Arctic<\/em> is a new release by Norwegian violinist <strong>Eldbj\u00f8rg Hemsing<\/strong> that asks questions, through music, about the effects of climate change on the Arctic region, and on the life that exists there. Ms. Hemsing, who grew up near the Arctic Circle, says \u201cthe Arctic is often misrepresented as stark and uninhabitable wasteland.\u201d Yet Hemsing explains that \u201cit\u2019s a region of matchless beauty abounding in life, one that magically illustrates how all things cohere in fragile cycles.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>With new pieces by composers including <strong>Jacob Shea<\/strong>, <strong>Frode Fjellheim<\/strong>, and<strong> James Newton Howard<\/strong>, as well as Norwegian heroes of the past such as <strong>Ole Bull<\/strong> and <strong>Edvard Grieg<\/strong>, <em>Arctic<\/em>  is a compelling compendium of musical ideas about a region that plays a vital role in the health of the entire planet.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Enjoy All Classical Portland\u2019s Program Director&nbsp;<strong>John Pitman<\/strong>&#8216;s conversation with <strong>Eldbj\u00f8rg Hemsing<\/strong> below.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-soundcloud wp-block-embed-soundcloud\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\nhttps:\/\/soundcloud.com\/all-classical-portland\/john-pitman-review-eldbjorg-hemsings-arctic\n<\/div><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em>John Pitman Review: Eldbj\u00f8rg Hemsing&#8217;s &#8216;Arctic&#8217;<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Eldbj\u00f8rg Hemsing<\/strong>&#8216;s <em>Arctic<\/em> is <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.prestomusic.com\/classical\/products\/9415101--arctic\" target=\"_blank\">available now on Presto Classical<\/a> or through <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eldbjorgmusic.com\/album\/arctic\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Hemsing&#8217;s website: <strong>eldbjorgmusic.com<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Arctic is a new release by Norwegian violinist Eldbj\u00f8rg Hemsing that asks questions, through music, about the effects of climate change on the Arctic region, and on the life that exists there. Ms. Hemsing, who grew up near the Arctic Circle, says \u201cthe Arctic is often misrepresented as stark and uninhabitable wasteland.\u201d Yet Hemsing explains &#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":89397,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4040],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-89393","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pitman-reviews"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-21 04:37:03","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.allclassical.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89393","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.allclassical.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.allclassical.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.allclassical.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.allclassical.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=89393"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.allclassical.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89393\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":110005,"href":"https:\/\/www.allclassical.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89393\/revisions\/110005"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.allclassical.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/89397"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.allclassical.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89393"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.allclassical.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89393"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.allclassical.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}