波士顿大学11月9日办免费音乐会：瑞典作曲家安德烈《妇女参政清唱剧》将迎来世界首个录音
波士顿——位于马萨诸塞州萨福克县波士顿市的波士顿大学（Boston University）11月5日宣布，该校交响乐团与高音合唱团将于11月9日（周一）晚7时30分在 Commonwealth Avenue 685号的 Tsai Performance Center 举行一场免费音乐会，整场聚焦瑞典管风琴家、作曲家 Elfrida Andrée（1841—1929）的作品，由该校美术学院管弦乐活动主任、指挥副教授 Sarah Ioannides 执棒，向公众免费开放。
音乐会的核心作品是 Andrée 1911年为在 Stockholm 举行的国际妇女参政联盟大会创作的《妇女参政清唱剧》（Suffrage Cantata），全长约30分钟，以音乐讲述瑞典女性从中世纪到20世纪初争取权利的历程。音乐会结束后，乐团将把这部作品录制下来——这将是该作的世界首个录音。Ioannides 表示，这份录音很可能成为今后专业乐团演出该作时唯一的参考录音；当晚还有数部 Andrée 的作品将迎来世界或美国首演。
Andrée 20岁时曾与父亲一起游说瑞典政府，修改禁止25岁以上未婚女性担任教堂管风琴师的法律。1867年，她成为 Gothenburg Cathedral 的管风琴师，是瑞典乃至全欧洲第一位担任这一职位的女性，并任职至1929年逝世。她创作的交响乐、清唱剧等大型多乐章作品，在当时被认为不适合女性创作；她逝世后，其作品大多未出版乐谱、鲜有录音，逐渐被古典乐坛遗忘。
这组名为「打破沉默」（Breaking the Silence）的活动由 Ioannides 与合唱活动主任 Daniel Parsley、Andrée 研究学者 Jonathan Spatola-Knoll 以及 Women's Philharmonic Advocacy 等机构合作推出，11月4日已先行举办一场专题讨论。来自 Malmö Opera 的女高音 Kristine Nowlain 将在音乐会中担任独唱；她此前还通过视频连线为合唱团上瑞典语课——团员们要以一种从未说过的语言完成演出与录音。
Ioannides 说：「我们正在以更真实、更诚实的方式重写历史。把 Elfrida Andrée 的音乐和故事带给新观众，就是让一个被掩盖的声音重新被听见。」据 Donne Foundation 的研究，2025年与2026年全球乐团曲目中，女作曲家的作品仅占4.5%。Ioannides 说：「不是历史上没有女作曲家。被掩盖的作曲家发掘得越多，经典曲目就越丰富。她们的音乐一直在那里，现在将被听见。」（来源：波士顿大学）
Boston University Concert on November 9 Spotlights Elfrida Andrée: Her Suffrage Cantata Will Get Its World Premiere Recording
Boston — Boston University, in Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts, announced on November 5 that its Symphony Orchestra and Treble Choirs will give a free concert on Monday, November 9 at 7:30 p.m. at the Tsai Performance Center, 685 Commonwealth Avenue, devoted to the Swedish organist and composer Elfrida Andrée (1841–1929). Sarah Ioannides, the College of Fine Arts' director of orchestral activities and associate professor of orchestral conducting, will conduct, and the concert is free and open to the public.
At the center of the program is the Suffrage Cantata, which Andrée wrote in 1911 for the International Woman Suffrage Alliance's conference in Stockholm. The 30-minute piece traces Swedish women's history and the fight for women's rights from the medieval period to the early 20th century. After the concert, the ensemble will record the work — the world premiere recording of the piece. Ioannides says the recording will likely serve as the only reference recording for professional orchestras that perform it in the future, and several other Andrée works on the November 9 program will receive their world or U.S. premieres.
At 20, Andrée and her father lobbied the Swedish government to change a law that barred unmarried women over 25 from being church organists. In 1867 she became the organist at Gothenburg Cathedral — the first woman in Sweden, let alone Europe, to hold such a position — and remained there until her death in 1929. Her large-scale, multimovement works were deemed unsuitable for women at the time, and after her death most of her music was never published as sheet music and rarely recorded, leaving her largely forgotten.
The program series, titled Breaking the Silence, is a collaboration between Ioannides, Daniel Parsley, director of choral activities in the School of Music, musicologist and Andrée expert Jonathan Spatola-Knoll, the Women's Philharmonic Advocacy, and other partners, and was preceded by a panel discussion on November 4. Soprano Kristine Nowlain of the Malmö Opera will sing as a soloist; she also gave the choirs Swedish lessons over video calls, as the singers had to learn the work in a language none of them had spoken before.
"What we're doing is rewriting history in a more true and honest way," Ioannides said. "By bringing Elfrida Andrée's music and story to a new audience, we're restoring a silenced voice." According to a Donne Foundation study, works by women composers accounted for only 4.5 percent of the music in global orchestra programming in 2025 and 2026. "It's not that there weren't women composers out there," Ioannides said. "The more silenced composers we uncover, the richer the canon becomes. Their music has always been there. Now it will be heard." (Source: Boston University)
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图片来源：图：波士顿大学 Tsai Performance Center 的舞台，乐团成员在演出前调弦准备。Dariusz Jemielniak 摄，CC BY-SA 4.0，经 Wikimedia Commons。 / Photo: The stage of Boston University's Tsai Performance Center, with orchestra members preparing. By Dariusz Jemielniak, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
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