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Text from Isa

The Swedish visa is firmly rooted in the Swedish folk soul

I have carried the text with me ever since

Jan's foreword is well worth reading and at the end of the piece he has included a text reading of Hans Näslund's Poem No

Open Mind Bohlin Ett av Sofia Vokalensembles (SOVE)Web comment by the composer: " Open Mind is an opening piece, an orchestral overture. The title partly refers to the fact that the work is intended to be a short opening piece in a concert program, but also to an openness to freely choose expressions as a composer with an open mind to musical ideas, gestures and styles and with a strong desire to communicate. Harmonic structures, melodic lines and ideas about a colorful instrumentation are the basis