Music from Finland #32
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Music. From.
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My. Classical contemporary and folk music from most of it is festival of
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1965 and the 50th anniversary of Finnish independence celebration of
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1967. In a series revealing some of the current musical activity in
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Finland.
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This third series of programs of music from Finland is based on recordings supplied by the Finnish
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Broadcasting Company for production by the University of Michigan.
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In one thousand of Levon Adim at a condo produced a small scale opera in which he
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employed the device of a tonality. This is probably the first such example by
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recognized Finnish composer and to say that it shook the very foundations of Finnish musical
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tradition is indeed putting it mildly. Even in the one thousand twenty as medic
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Kontos atonal music was so shocking that it was virtually ignored.
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Today however just the opposite is true. The tone poem we are about to hear
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pan is described by a Finnish critic as representing the wildest and most
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attractive music ever played by a Finnish orchestra. Every crowd
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involved now conducts the Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra in a performance of automatic Antos tone
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poem.
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Pan.
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When.
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You.
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Were.
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Weak.
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Why.
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Be.
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That was the tone poem panned by Army medic Kondo
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continuing today's programme of orchestral music. We will hear an excerpt from the Symphony Number
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three by I know Johann a rotavirus wrote of are born in one
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thousand twenty eight is one of the very few Finnish musicians to have studied composition in the United
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States at Tanglewood under Copeland persecutee and sessions
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in 1054 with his composition A Requiem in our time. He won first
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prize in competitions sponsored by the American regarde foundation.
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Here now is the Adagio from the Symphony Number three by I know you honey are out of are out
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of a bad loan conducts the Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra.
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The.
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The B.
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Adagio from the Symphony Number three by. I know your honey are out.
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Or no Kami is remembered as the first Finnish composer for home a period of
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study in Paris was a decisive influence in his piano
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concerto. Tommy according to finnish critics is said to have brought the idea of the city
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into Finnish music which here the do it been oriented almost exclusively towards the
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countryside. There is no doubt that in his opening
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Tommy introduced the glittering Viennese concert waltz into Finnish music.
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US Eric folks that conducts the Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra in a performance of open
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road by 1:00 May.
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You're.
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You're.
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You're.
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Hope and reduce by a lot of aplomb a performed by the Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra
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under the baton of Neil looks at it folks that.
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Are through work and listening to music from Finn from based on recordings
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supplied by the Finnish Broadcasting Company or production by the University of Michigan.
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Program written by Harry went over at her. Speaking of inviting you to listen again next week
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for another program in the series music from Finland. This is the
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national educational radio network.
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