Jamestown was treated to a moving and beautiful concert Saturday evening by the Malmo Academic Choir and Orchestra, of Malmo, Sweden. Both instrumental and choral ensembles were under the leadership of Sven-Inge Frisk.

The good looking, young musicians — most, but not all, of university age — performed a concert of nearly two hours, to which the Jamestown audience responded warmly, offering standing ovation after ovation, in mid-concert as well as at the end, to be rewarded with three encores, in return.

Except for one Finn, all the composers whose work was performed were also Swedish. One of them, Staffan Storm, was present in the audience, and was introduced from the stage. The music performed was nearly all from the 20th and 21st centuries, although all was richly melodic and tonal. Much was evocative of nature.

The orchestra is what we call a chamber orchestra, rather than a full symphony. The musicians were very well trained, demonstrating admir