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Symposium dinner at the Archbishop’s Palace |
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After the Reformation at the beginning of the 16th century, the palace entered a new phase, becoming the residence of the King's Lord Lieutenants north of Dovre, and later a major military depot. Over the centuries the buildings have been plundered and burnt, but they have always been restored. The last restoration was in the 1990s, when two burnt depot buildings were replaced by a new building.
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Sonia Loinsworth in Concert |
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Optional social program
September 9th and 10th, 2006 |
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General information The ship has large, comfortable lounges providing good views, wonderful cabins and suites of a high standard, fully licensed restaurants, cafés and bars, and souvenir shops that also sell a selection of toiletries. M/S Richard With even has outdoor jacuzzies. All Hurtigruten ships place great emphasis on artistic decoration, and have a multitude of oil paintings, water-colours, prints and sculptures that have resulted in the ships being descibed as floating art galleries. Many of the artists come from places along the route of the world’s most beautiful voyage, and even more have allowed themselves to be inspired by the fantastic Norwegian coastal scenery.
From Trondheim to Bergen
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The symposium dinner was held at
the Archbishop’s Palace. The reception was hosted by the Mayor of
Trondheim. Together with Nidaros Cathedral, the Archbishop's Palace
holds a unique position in the history of Norway. From the mid-1100s
the palace was a spiritual and political centre. The Archbishop's Palace
was the centre of the Norwegian archdiocese, which comprised not only
Norway but also the Faeroes, Shetland, Isle of Man, Iceland, and
Greenland.
Today the Archbishop's Palace has become a
major museum complex, the place to visit if you want to see and experience
important parts of Trondheim's and Norway's history. The new museum,
which opened in 1997 and is the site for the Symposium's reception, is at the south
end, while the north wing, dating from the 1160s, features the great
hall where the archbishop received his visitors and where he had
his private quarters. The symposium dinner will be held in the great
hall. Temporary exhibitions are held in Lavetthuset, while visitors can
learn about the Norwegian armed forces from ancient times up to 1945 in
the Army Museum/Resistance museum. In the summer months visitors flock
to the courtyard, and during the annual Saint Olav's Festival it hosts a
historical marketplace, theatre performances and concerts.
At the reception in the Archbishop's
Palace, we will experience a
remarkable concert. Norwegian/Trinidadian Sonia Loinsworth has been a
singer and composer for more than 21 years. Based in Trondheim, Norway,
she has given over 700 concerts within the styles of jazz, soul, and
world music meetings between Norwegian folksongs and classical Indian
music. She has performed more than 100 concerts with her own
compositions to Tibetan Buddhist mantras. Sonia has studied music at the
University of Georgia, USA, musical science at the University in
Trondheim, and has received private lessons in classical European and
classical northern Indian vocals (khayal). She has released two
critically acclaimed albums with new compositions to Tibetan mantras
that sell in Europe and the US. Sonia has performed for H.R.H. the King
of Norway, and the former prime minister of Norway. She gives solo
concerts and performs with sitar, tabla and classical Indian flute.
Sonia offers Musical Meditation Concerts worldwide.
We
left Trondheim on Saturday and sailed past the island of Munkholmen, then out
of the fjord and south-west alongside the beautiful island of
Hitra and the open sea of Hustadvika before approaching Molde with the
beautiful Romsdal Alps on the starboard side. We then continued our trip
past the magnificent West Norway scenery with mouths of fjords and a
lush, beautiful archipelago, including the island kingdom of Øygarden,
before the ship turned east and began the approach to Bergen.