Music from Finland; 36

It. Is music. Classical contemporary and folk music from the same edges festival on the 50th anniversary of Finnish independence celebration in a series revealing some of the current musical activity of Finland. The civilian's festival of

1065 and the 50th anniversary celebration of 1967 presented a considerable quantity of music by outstanding composers other them surveyed us and from a wide variety of historical periods. Finished musicologists and music historians run usually active in broadening the understanding of the Finnish musical heritage and culture and a number of illustrated lectures touching on many facets of the subject. 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. It is true that Finnish composers for a period of over 40 years from before the 1920s until the early 1980s were forced by musical opinion of the Finnish concert goer and the late musician to live and work in the deep shadow of Finland's national composer Young's Abed Yes. Many composers during these years seldom felt the warmth of the sun of public acceptance of the claim so great was the shadow of the man who quite ironic laid it all he could to help them in their creative endeavors.

One method of attempting to avoid this great creative shadow was to compose in media in which the great TO BED yes was less well known. It remember thats a bed yes was looked upon as an orchestral composer in spite of his contributions in other areas and for a number of Finnish composers of the time. This was a successful approach but the braver ones did not hesitate to work seriously in the orchestral field and a number of them were quite successful. One of the most successful was I know Johann eruptive Vajra wrote of R. I jumped into the four of Finnish composers in 1054 when he won the American offered for Johnson brass competition award for his work A Requiem in our time a composition which aroused considerable interest in Europe in 1960 when the Helsinki City Symphony orchestra performed it extensively during a tour of Central Europe. We're out of our out and the age of 41 has four symphonies to his credit although his symphonies are marked by conscious modernism rotavirus out but up until now is characterized by

an adherence to conservative principles especially in the area of form in music. His Symphony Number three Opus 28 composed in 1981 is an excellent example of the composers mature orchestral style. Bob a bad line and now conducts the Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra in a performance of rotavirus Symphony Number Three. The recording supplied especially for this series by the Finnish Broadcasting Company. The second movement is omitted because of time limitations. However there are air.

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performed by the Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra conducted by Apollo back blind. Union. Nothing. You have been listening to music from Finland classical contemporary and folk music festival on the 50th anniversary of Finnish independence celebration. You know serious reviewing some current musical activity in Finland. Today we have heard the final programme in the series of music from Finland based on recordings supplied with the

Finnish Broadcasting Company for production by the University of Michigan. Program written by her of Oliver and Burroughs speaking this is the national education or radio network.