Geert Wilders, who is the leader of the Dutch Freedomparty, has made a short film named "Fitna" that is very critical about Islam, and he released it to the world during a recent press conference. The film has been published on the party’s website (an English version can be seen here).The Dutch authorities fear riots both in the Netherlands and internationally (with good reason when you look at all the trouble the Muhammed caricatures made) and I bet there will be loud protests from the Muslim communities around the world.I have just seen the film myself and felt like I had to comment about it, and what better way to do it than through my new blog :) The movie consists of some verses from […] Read more

Some would say it was about bloody time, but I would say it was just the right time. I’ve finally released my new homepage. As you can see it’s now more in the form of a blog. As you may remember I did have something that resembled a blog on my old homepage, and you may also remember that I didn’t update it at all very frequently. I hope to change that now and will try to post stuff at least once a week. Not necessarily stuff about me and my life, but there will be something. Who knows… maybe I’ll find a niche to blog about as time goes by.With this new homepage you may also discover that some of the content from the […] Read more

Last night a group from my orchestra, and I, went to Rockefeller Music Hall in Oslo to attend the annual Christmas concert from the group Penthouse Playboys. The concert was extremely entertaining. Those guys really know how to put on a show. They played lots of covers ranging from Wham’s "Last Christmas", golden oldies, to even older Swedish popular songs.Their guest artist, Tone Damli Aaberge (Norwegian Idol finalist, elected one of Norway’s most sexiest women by several magazines, and still only 19 years old, but burning hot) joined in on some of the songs, as well as a couple of solo numbers.All in all the concert was very successful, but the real fun didn’t start until after the concert. The current conductor of our orchestra […] Read more

When I first heard that Ennio Morricone was having his first ever concert in the United States, I was intruiged at being part of this special occasion. However, since I am from Norway, this seemed a little far fetched, but the notion of seeing Maestro Morricone conduct his own works was really tempting. After all he is one of the greatest film music composers there is, with an incredible track record.When word of this concert spread to the community over at StreamingSoundtracks.com (SST), everybody jumped out of their seats and purchased tickets. Suddenly everybody I knew, and then some, from SSTwas going, and the temptation for me to go grew beyond its limits, and I decided to go as well. To experience Morricone’s music performed […] Read more