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- From: jordan@castor (Chuckingham Palace)
- Subject: Re: Classical Music?
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- Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 18:29:33 GMT
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- hal@radio.wkar.msu.edu (Hal Prentice) writes:
- >The composer was Jan (or Jean) Sibelius (1865-1957), THE Finnish nationalist
- >composer (who could not speak Finnish, by the way). He is probably most
- >famous for his tone poem, "Finlandia" dating from 1899.
-
- Oh, I love that one! "You're so near to Russia, so far from Japan, oh it's
- a long way from Cairo, lots of miles from Viet Nam..."
-
- >"The Return of Lemminkainen" (or, "Lemminkainen's Homeward Journey",
- >depending on the translation) is one of four tone poems from "The Legends
- >of the Kalevala" (the Finnish legend so strikingly retold in the epic, "The
- >Day the Earth Froze.") The other three Legends are: "Lemminkainen and the
- >Maidens of Saari", "The Swan of Tuonela" (remember the the dead bird?), and "
- >Lemminkainen in Tuonela" (a nice place to vacation, I guess.)
-
- Gee, Hal, you forgot "Lemminkainen is a Failure," "He Failed to Get the
- Sampo," "Failure, Failure," and the haunting "Harp Music to Kill an Evil
- Queen." I get all dewey-eyed when I think about that piece.
-
- Chuck "offending my Finnish brethren" Jordan
-
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