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- From: eblom@mari.acc-admin.stolaf.edu (Kate E Eblom)
- Subject: Re: Classical Music?
- Message-ID: <1993Jan24.053253.6584@news.stolaf.edu>
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- Organization: St. Olaf College; Northfield, MN
- References: <00967094.B8A525E0@vms.csd.mu.edu> <C1BnAs.933@world.std.com>
- Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1993 05:32:53 GMT
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- In article <C1BnAs.933@world.std.com> tfish@world.std.com (Tex Fish) writes:
- >In article <00967094.B8A525E0@vms.csd.mu.edu> 973fquades@vms.csd.mu.edu writes:
- >>I was listening to the local classical music station the other day and in a
- >>commercial touting their wide variety of music, the announcer referred to a
- >>piece called "The Return of Laemon Kinan." Has *anyone* ever heard of this
- >>music? If so, who is the composer? Is there a recording we should all
- >>know about?
- >
- > I got the feeling from watching it that "The Day the Earth Froze"
- >was a film version of a traditional Swedish folk tale, albeit a pretty
- >stupid one, and thusly it makes sense somebody dead and Swedish would have
- >written about it. I would like to hear it, though, just for the absurdity
- >of it all.
- >
- > -tfish@world.std.com
- >
- NONONONONONONONONONO
- This is a Finnish Folk Tale, an interpretation of "The Kalevala".
- I realize that I should relax, but "The Kalevala" is an important
- part of finnish heritage, as it is the first book ever written in
- finnish. Jeesh, the finns can't catch a break...
- TDtEF sucked, btw, but from a cultural standpoint, I was intrigued.
-
- Sorry about the blowup, but we've lost all the wars...it kind of grates
- on you after a while...
-
- TTFN The Woodman
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