Music from Finland; 15

This is music. Classical contemporary and folk music from the Sabbat years festival and the 50th anniversary of Finnish independence celebration in a series revealing some of the current musical activity in Finland. This event is festival of one thousand sixty five and the 50th anniversary celebration of 1967 presented considerable quantities of music by outstanding composers other than Sabbat us and from a wide variety of historical periods. There were also several Illustrated lectures documenting interesting aspects of today's Finnish musical culture. This third series of programs of music from Finland is based on recordings supplied by the Finnish Broadcasting Company for production by the University of Michigan. The Finnish folklore tradition is a

rich one indeed that it embraces both the vocal and the instrumental with almost equal vigor. The instrumental folk music of the Fens performs about the same function for them as it does for almost all other cultures. A compliment for the depths and at times some of it is surprisingly similar to the old time fiddlers with which we in the United States are so familiar. The most unusual of the Finnish instruments is the contour lack assault array in the form of a wing of a bird. The original contour layers had only five strings but the present day instruments had from 20 to 30 Finnish vocal folk music stems from the UI coup which are the recitative like ones in character but much of it is based on epic poems of which by far the most famous is the call of a lot. Today's broadcast was recorded as part of the subeditors Festival in 1965 and our host will be Eric Crites of the Finnish Broadcasting Company. Here

now is Mr Crites. This is the first of the folk music Matheny's avenged by the Finnish broadcasting company in the Sibelius festival. You can hear the folk music ensemble Coasties info to put on the sing at me How do you mean. And a much deeper place to come to lay the folk music ensemble is from a village called coasting and in the southern part of the province of both Pia comes to your humble Roma and play the violin. They call you out of a less instrument is the double bass and the harmonium in Austin about yeah they still have a About 40 such fitness and soundless which appear mainly in the summer at weddings and Willet festivals from time to time contests organized among ensembles some soloists. There was a competition of this kind in the Finnish radio. Some yes ago. Especially not to both of us several crown weddings weddings in which the bride way of the Crown celebrated every gift at these weddings put a put an old wedding down Cece

indispensable it is the longest of the Finnish folk dances and generally includes seven to ten figures called the March waltz most of couples couple come so and it takes hours to perform the hoedown it's the name of the done so very likely has been derived from foot to put him simply means a suite of fork down sis. The vetting put a put a will now here is not complete. He's a medley which gives you an idea of the put put to music. Yet the man it's called I'm happy to put in Wardak about Bohemia spoke up a lot of smart a c and c men at least those hoped but the the body not the vile see body and vice develop the look of a style second also. Say couple of putting up at the spot. Me. Blah blah. Blah.

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alone was so boy close he died BARKER Yeah I'd gone there in the car you run by heart. A funeral march is probably seldom found in folk music. How about a March of this kind is included in that at the top of the put put a play off from coasting on Bill's lineament he comes a little mouse. Thank.

You. Your host for today's program of folk music from Finland was Caro. Eric

writes of the Finnish Broadcasting Company and the recording was one of three folk music recitals made during this a Vegas Festival in 1965. Listening to music from Finland classical contemporary and folk music from

there's a bad years festival and a 50th anniversary of Finnish independence celebration. In the series reviewing some of the current musical activity in Finland. This third series of programs of music from Finland is based on recordings supplied by the Finnish Bon casting company for production by the University of Michigan. Program was written and produced by Henry well over Ed Burroughs speaking and inviting you to listen again this same time next week for another program of music from Finland. This is the national educational radio network.