After the success in 2023, The Story of a City returns. For those who missed it, or those who want to see it again!
A personally created performance where the history of Gothenburg is described through text and music from various eras.
The well-known Ayla Kabaca (Bolibompa, etc.) vividly tells the story of the people who have built, influenced, or impacted the city of Gothenburg: Dutch, Scots, English, West Goths, Turks, Bohuslänners, Chinese, Norwegians – yes, people from near and far, children and the elderly, women and men, short and tall, happy and angry. Gothenburg Combo enhances all impressions with music that tells of the city’s diverse history: Dutch 17th-century music by the flutist Jacob van Eyck, Scottish songs from the 1700s in the Italian version of Barsanti, music by Elfrida André, Bedrich Smetana, Carl Michael Bellman, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Dietrich Buxtehude, Isaac Albéniz, Evert Taube, Wilhelm Stenhammar, Giacchino Rossini, and Håkan Hellström, American folk music and Steve Reich with connections to the great American ships, traditional Chinese music that the East Indiamen may have heard on their journeys in the 1700s, and Spanish music they heard during their stopover in Cadiz, where they traded for silver.