Music from Finland; 18

Good thing. This is music from Finland. Classical contemporary and folk music from the civilians festival of 1965 and the 50th anniversary of the nation independence celebration of miking 67. Series reviewing some of the current musical activity in Finland. There's 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. Today's broadcast is the second and concluding portion of an illustrated lecture Finnish music in the 20th century from notes and illustrations prepared by Pablo hellish for the Finnish Broadcasting Company. After discussing Finnish music up until about one thousand twenty five in the first lecture we

begin today with a period starting about one thousand thirty when Finnish composer's works were showing marks of the real then contemporary idiom speaking of the pre 920 music Mr Heller's to wrote as follows. There were no concert audiences for music of this kind and that's why Audie met a Kontos musical expression began to change in the 1980s. He then turned to a more national form of composition and studied the folk metal days of archaic Finno-Ugric and peoples adapting them for orchestra. He took part in composition competitions and was invariably successful due to the brilliance of his technique. The primitive power and inspiration of the one thousand twenty is however deserted him. His work was strong and skillful with the personality behind it seemed muted. The change over to this new way of writing had been imposed from outside and lacked inner compulsion. However one more great work appeared in the 1980s and that was the opera you hop which at its first performance on the Finnish radio in 1058 this still

represents the most powerful of medic Antos work and is the best of the little that Finnish opera has to offer. But to return to the 1920s its significance in creative Finnish music seems greater than that of any other decade. It was then that you are no climbié also made his debut playing himself from the Finnish Idol and the generally acceptable way. But surprisingly enough he returned to it quite voluntarily in his call of a law suite. Climate was the first Finnish composer for whom a period of study in Paris was a decisive experience. You identified himself with the metropolis and also with impressionism in a way that was new in our part of the world. Orchestral tone and coloring came spontaneously to him and composing a symphony it was not for him an absolute duty as it was for musicians with a German training. He also absorbed impressions from elsewhere apart from Paris. Russian modernists like pre-coffee FM Stravinsky and new Spanish music really made me sit up he said. The result was the Caribbean Rhapsody in

those days I went to the Sorbonne to borrow the cost of a lock. This is what Tommy himself related and the result. The Caribbean Rhapsody inspired by these various sources and based on folk nowadays sounds like this. Oh. In the end. I am. The author and the

fan. The call of the law and moment with the two poles of climbing is existence during those years. The Piano Concerto entitled your mom are trying to live. Night in March brought the idea of the city of Paris into Finnish music. But here the two had been oriented towards the countryside. Later plumbing was to bring yet another city. Vienna which won him was

not only the home of the classical composers but also that of the waltz and Strauss the lettering concert waltz open the Duke was born. To cover these new fields was in the end easy for Plame. He was after all

a spiritual composer who was a complete master of orchestration. His greatest achievement Plame apparently obtained on a completely National Front by embodying in his music the themes of the call of a lot. This field is the most exacting that a Finnish composer could contemplate and here again we are conscious of the powerful shadow of Sabbat Yes but in this field climate was successful. The carnival last week was music which represented himself in the first place but also Finland the colophon perhaps even Europe with this sweet clammy one his greatest successes both at home and abroad. Later years brought a barest simplicity to promenade music the sparkling colors of his youth did not fade but we used more sparingly. The composer naturally becomes calmer and always reveals more profound thoughts. But when this happens some of his spontaneity is lost. It seems as if the first decades of Crimea's work were of most significance to finnish music. After them came the 1040s and war which always has a retrograde effect on cultural life. Since then a number of composers have

appeared all skilled professionals but a great unifying personality is still lacking at the beginning of the 1980s. I know England seem to be the most promising man but he has been silent for 10 years. Music for the play again and Morrie of the Wall of China. The piano quintet his Second Symphony and a piano concerto are the most significant works of this unpredictable and individual artist. If silence is not to be final he should still have much to contribute to finnish music. What about the music invented today and a few words one could describe a constellation consisting of a group of young experimentalists moving around the skilful older triumvirate of IANA skulking in the attic bed Mon. And I knew your honey I wrote of our own in this triumvirate the honest cook and a member of the Academy of Finland is an official premiss in Dipodomys. There are many reasons why he actually deserves this position. He possesses the versatile technical

knowledge of a former professor of composition but this is not his most typical attribute and that he's very serious pondering and has a deep relationship to music. The quality not always found in a modern composer token is an artist who feels a deep respect for his art.. He does not profane it with superficial experiments or unnecessary effects. In his relationship to music there is a little of Bach and a little of Schumann's you CBS figure this consistent relationship to music has given the works of cooking and an exceptional uniformity of style. Recent works as well as those of his youth are all part of the same harmonious and Tyra Dame Coquelin still believes in the possibilities of the symphony in present day music and it is composition for orchestra. He has directly or indirectly in his personal way tried to find a way to the symphony tradition. The most important works of the honest cooking in our two symphonies music for string orchestra and Sinfonietta camarade for 12 players.

You want to skulk an end and Eric Baird mon they two foremost men and finished music of the day and as far as time is concerned followed completely opposite courses. In contrast to cooking is meditative way. Stands Badman's intelligently experimental attitude. This does not however hinder back mon from frequently achieving an exceptionally spontaneous and tense atmosphere that almost seems to include some neo romantic features as a composer of songs with soloists and choirs Eric Beck Manas often based his work on the mere coloring of verse and text. His style is influenced by the speaking quiet technique of Lady May or vocal. However he has developed a freer more singing style for choirs and he has also experimented with the tambourine and acoustic quality of the human voice in combination with the different instrumental groups. Bet mine is a professor of Composition at the academy. The Golan are

the birds of a choir is one of the most representative of his recent works. The One.

In the late 50s. I know Johan E. wrote of Ottawa born in one thousand twenty eight attained a firm position as one of the most independent composers infant typical of all his works as an organically tradition bound expression into which he blends without prejudice. The newest divisions of modern music wrote of Otto's three symphonies are undoubtedly his most important group of works up to this time. He has a wilder also in the field of chamber and vocal music written several compositions that have created a tension among them the opera the mine which had its premier in 1963. And the young composers their conservative names Lannan Osmo to Linda mom Pavo Heinonen and Alyssa Simon that experimental activity is in the hands of advocates so Mahatma Gandhi read mon auto donor and a few others.

It seems that different techniques of composition do not attract the youngest generation in a strictly stylistic way the significance of personality is emphasized to the extreme and the German mindedness of the 150 days and Darmstadt are denounced as one fertile cul de sacs. The composer must be freer and more courageous and thus a Finnish composer can write music like Katia Reed Mon. But this tendency is not as yet a general one. You're. You're. Saying one thing.

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Thank you. That was the concluding portion of it I lost a good lecture on the subject finished music in the

20th century. Lord. No. Nearly. No. You're. Listening to music from the other in a series produced by the University of Michigan recording supplied by the Finnish Broadcasting Company. At Barrow speaking and inviting you to join us again next week at the same time for another program of

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