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On this beautiful day, we celebrated LinKS 40/60 and 2.0 partnership. This conversation between Mette Laursen & Lars Kolind (in Danish) is a very informal way of meeting LinKS. We thought: Why not share LinKS in a festive fashion with a twist.

The conversation is about the meaning of LinKS, the future of LinKS and the key competencies: Sensing, Matching, Designing an Delivering. Enjoy some happy moments together with our wonderful guests on the terrasse.

Under the Christmas tree this year the LinKS network found the first Danish recording ever of this magnficent musical work.

The conductor is Per Enevold who is an enthusiastic Bach-interpreter. I talked to Per about conducting, leadership and Bach!

One of the key points I noticed from talking to Per is that the core collaboration between conductor and musicians is the experience that you send out a “message” of how you want this music to be interpretated and you receive the response which gives you inspiration back….and the learning circle goes on.  It is not a matter of dictatory instructing - it is a dialogue  and when it is brilliant and touches people, it is musicalart.

And Bach - how on earth can a piece of music be so incredibly fascinating an relevant almost 300 years after the piece is composed? Listen to per-enevold.mp3

Today I went to the final rehersal before the grand concertos on Sunday and Monday Nov. 27, in Trinitatis Kirke at 19.30. Several LinkS alumni will be there to follow the Blue Tone trail. They meet outside at 19.10 the latest.
Today, I will invite you on a journey into a new perspective - seen from the Alto. Last time I did this pice is 10 years ago as a soprano, so I am up for a change of view. So, I brought my recorder in the pocket to illustrate the experience from the inside.
The Maria Vesperae by Monteverdi is one of the very early pieces of classical music. Through this piece we understand the transformation of Gregorian music to classical music - this is a universe rather special and 400 years old. There are a few years to go before the Blue Notes where invented!
At the same time this recording is a live chance of looking into the world of the conductor and a choir, soloists and orchestra. Per Enevold is conducting Trinitatis Kantori - www.kantori.dk and is one of our beloved conductors in Scandinavian choir music. Several international honours belongs to Per Enevold who have been conducting both in Europe and the USA.
You can listen directly on your PC or find your earphones to catch the comments of a world class conductor - tells you a lot about leadership.
I will follow up with an interview with Per Enevold when the concertos has come to a grand finale…
Enjoy these selections…
Maria Vesperae Lauda Jerusalem
Maria Vesperae Ave Mari Stella
Maria Vesperae Finale

As management theory has changed direction during time, so has music a long tradition of different approaches. According to the classical music tradition, a scale is a hierarchical stairway which most often consists of seven pure tones in either major or minor, with a keynote as a basic condition. In a classical view a piece of music must express a certain scale and finish at the keynote.

Some musicians are convinced that new pieces of music is to be created in an incremental way, an improvement of existing approaches, based on above conditions. Other believes that new music can only be created in a tense intersection between music traditions and approaches. In the meeting of different approaches it’s often impossible to separate the principles from the different approaches; instead the meeting is an expression of best practice across approaches. In some of these mixed traditions (ex. blues, jazz and African music) the so called ‘blue tones’ appear as an expression of distorted constellations and innovative improvisation with for example no respect to the classical scale of tones and with no specific keynote. In blues the melody can be singed in minor while the accords is played in major, which gives an exiting tension of blue tones in the music, an approach that many modern traditions has adopted. But in spite of this anarchistic approach and artistic degree of freedom, each piece of music is often expressed in a certain dogma way, where the composer follows a more or less conscious plan and common accepted rules and norms in the creation of the musical expression.

Like this mixed music approach LinKS Advice composes new knowledge in a tense intersection between members, and the events and teams are compounded to create the best conditions for innovative improvisation among members and for composition of new knowledge. With the common Wharton principles in mind; the thinking in syntheses, the mental models, the scenarios and personal experience, each member in LinKS Advice contributes with unique and distorted qualities, which in the right constellation creates the blue tones.

Which qualities do you recognize as most important in creating blue tones?