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Hennummusikken –Summary

Hennummusikken is a small-town community band (janissary) from Tranby, in Lier, Norway. 
Tranby is approximately 35 km from the Norwegian capital, Oslo, and about 10 km from Drammen.

Our conductor is Georgi Deltchev.

Currently we have about 45 musicians, male and female. The age of the musicians spans from 15 to 80 years. Many of the members started their music career in school marching bands, and has been playing with different bands and orchestras ever since.

Hennummusikken 2007
Photo: Stein Styve, Lierposten

Hennummusikken is a member of the Norwegian Band Federation, Norges Musikkorpsforbund (NMF).

Our history

Hennummusikken was founded in 1897 and is the  oldest existing band in Lier. 

The picture shows some of the instruments used at this time. These instruments are now the property of the local historical society, Lier Historielag, at Lier Bygdetun.

From the start, one of the main assignments was playing at dance nights.  Another was participation in the celebration of the Norwegian national day, the  17th of May.

In the beginning there were 8 musicians in the band. As for  most amateur bands and orchestras,  the number of active musicians has varied over the years. In the early sixties there were just a few musicians left, and after a while the musical activity ceased. In 1982 the instruments belonging to Hennummusikken were transferred to the school band at Nordal Elementary School, Hennummusikken was formally closed down.

Six years later, Hennummusikken was re-established the 20th August 1988 with 31 musicians.

As the band never had a  marching banner,  one was made for the celebration of the  100th anniversary. The banner was first used for the celebration of the Norwegian national day, 17th of May 1997.

In 2005 an emblem was  formally established for Hennummusikken.  The main motive is a helicon, drawn after one of the instruments from 1897. 

Historically Hennummusikken has mostly performed their music inside a very small geographic area inside Lier. However, the last years we have also visited several places outside Norway:

  • 2001: Bulgaria, the native country of our Conductor.
    Concerts were performed in Sunny Beach, Nessebar and Haskovo.
  • 2003: The Netherlands. We visited Malden, near Nijmegen.
  • 2004: Spain. Visit to Manilva Beach, near Estepona. Concerts were performed in Mijas, Ronda and in the Norwegian Seamen’s Mission in Calahonda.
  • 2007: New visit to Bulgaria, with concerts in Varbitza, Dimitrovgrad, Haskovo and Sofia.

Hennummusikken today

Like most Norwegian amateur orchestras, Hennummusikken is performing as a concert orchestra as well as a marching band.

Our music is mainly melodious, primarily pieces well known to the general public. 

From 1994 Georgi Deltchev has been our conductor.  Under his musical leadership the quality of the band has had a positive trend. Georgi is a professional musician and music teacher, originating form Bulgaria. He got his music education at the Academy of Music in Sofia . He is now living at Tranby, Lier.

Our repertory spans from “Abba Golden Hits” and marches from different countries on to “Elsa’s Procession to the Cathedral” from “Löhengrin” by Richard Wagner.

 

Among several performances through the year, the following regular occasions have to be mentioned:

  • Participation in the parades and public celebration of the Norwegian National Day, the 17th of Mai.
  • Participate in the Cristmas tree lighting ceremonies at:
    • Hennumtorget 
    • Hallingstadtunet
    • Mortenskollen, in the forest about 1 km up on the hill above Tranby.
      This tradition started at the millennium new-years eve.
  • One of the Sundays in December we have our traditional Christmas concert in Tranby Church, with well known Christmas Music from all over the world.
    The last years, two separate performances has been necessary.

Rehearsals

We meet for rehearsals Mondays from  7pm to 9:30 pm, at Nordal elementary school.

 

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Sist endret: 24-11-2009