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Morning Concert:
Jack Briece: On Finnish Music |
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| Item Type: Sound Recording |
Duration: 134 min |
| Event Type: Interview and Music |
Program Origin: KPFA |
From a recording made on February 4, 1988, Charles Amirkhanian talks with composer, performer, and video artist, Jack Briece about contemporary Finnish music. Works heard include compositions by Harri Wessman, Jarmo Sermilä, Paavo Heininen, Lepo Sumera, Usko Meriläinen, and other talented Finnish composers who’s works remain relatively unknown in the United States. Having become interested in the music of Finland he traveled to the country in 1985 and then again in 1987, after which he wrote about his experiences and spearheaded an effort to facilitate communication and cooperation between Finnish and Western composers and artists. Note: composer Briece died of AIDS shortly after this program was made in 1988. |
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| Musical Selections: |
Water's weary under snow / Harri Wessman -- Labor! (1982) / Jarmo Sermilä -- Symphony No. 3, Op. 20 [two movements] (1969, rev. 1977) / Paavo Heininen |
| Performers: |
Tapiola Choir (Water's)
Erkki Pohjola, conductor (Water's)
Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra (Labor ; Symphony No. 3)
Ulf Söderblom, conductor (Symphony No. 3) |
| Genres: |
20th Century Classical; Orchestral Music |
| Subject: |
20th century classical; Music -- Finland; Choruses, Secular (Children’s voices); Orchestral music; Symphonies |
| People: |
Briece, Jack ; Amirkhanian, Charles; Wessman, Harri; Pohjola, Erkki; Sermilä, Jarmo, 1939-; Heininen, Paavo, 1938-; Söderblom, Ulf |
| Recording Date: |
2/4/1988 |
| First Broadcast Date: |
3/11/1988 |
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| Musical Selections: |
Symphony No. 2 (1984) / Lepo Sumera -- Meditation (1974) / Usko Meriläinen -- Sinistro, for accordion and guitar (1977) / Jukka Tiensuu -- Verblendungen (1982-84) / Kaija Saariaho |
| Performers: |
Estonian National Symphony Orchestra, (Symphony No. 2)
Peeter Lilje, conductor (Symphony No. 2)
Risto Poutanen, cello (Meditation)
Ilmo Ranta, piano (Meditation)
Matti Rantanen, accordion (Sinistro)
Pekka Vesanen, guitar (Sinistro)
Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, (Verblendungen)
Esa-Pekka Salonen, conductor (Verblendungen) |
| Genres: |
20th Century Classical; Orchestral Music |
| Subject: |
20th century classical; Orchestral music; Music -- Finland; Music -- Estonia; Symphonies; Violoncello and piano music; Accordion and guitar music; Electronic music; Electro-acoustic; Avant-garde (Music) |
| People: |
Briece, Jack ; Amirkhanian, Charles; Sumera, Lepo, 1950-2000; Lilje, Peeter, 1950-; Meriläinen, Usko; Poutanen, Risto; Ranta, Ilmo; Tiensuu, Jukka; Rantanen, Matti, 1952-; Vesanen, Pekka ; Saariaho, Kaija; Salonen, Esa-Pekka, 1958- |
| Recording Date: |
2/4/1988 |
| First Broadcast Date: |
3/11/1988 |
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