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« Reply #15 on: 21:24:16, 22-09-2007 »
Cannot comment on Services article but i always think of Tapiola as Sibelius's supreme masterpiece even above the symphonies- think many argue  that Sibelius had gone as far as he could in expressing his art and had nothing more to say- whether agree with this or not sure but seems a pity nothing more of significance was written
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Chafing Dish
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« Reply #16 on: 21:27:52, 22-09-2007 »
This Service article echoes a lot of points made by Alex Ross in a recent New Yorker essay. Not to say any kind of plagiarism is going on, by any means, but this strange kind of Sibelius hagiography seems to be quite rampant and fashionable.

I just remind that I am enjoying the music of JPE Hartmann, a Danish symphonist. I like it the more I listen to it, and can't shake the impression that it is a sort of missing link btw Viennese classicism and the Nordic, bleak or otherwise, sensibility of e.g. Nielsen.
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« Reply #17 on: 22:47:28, 22-09-2007 »
Quote from: Chafing Dish on 21:27:52, 22-09-2007
This Service article echoes a lot of points made by Alex Ross in a recent New Yorker essay. Not to say any kind of plagiarism is going on, by any means, but this strange kind of Sibelius hagiography seems to be quite rampant and fashionable.

Not that you would know anything about impressing Sibelius' importance on young people.
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« Reply #18 on: 09:59:03, 23-09-2007 »
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Why did Sibelius produce nothing in his last 30 years? On the 50th anniversary of the great composer's death, Tom Service travels to Finland to unravel one of classical music's biggest mysteries

Thursday September 20, 2007
The Guardian

In Jean Sibelius's house, about half an hour north of Helsinki and within sight of haunting Lake Tuusula, there is a massive green fireplace, the height of the dining room. Every brick has been carefully glazed, reflecting the light that streams in through the front windows like an evergreen glimpsed in a wintry woodland. For any visitor to Ainola today - the house is named after Sibelius's wife, Aino - the fireplace is a colourful interloper in an interior otherwise completely made of pine.

Such is the clarity of the design of the house, the restrained chic of the textiles, even the crockery, that Ainola feels strangely contemporary.

It's Ikea's fault?!
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« Reply #19 on: 10:09:26, 23-09-2007 »
Tim,  Cheesy Cheesy Cheesy
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« Reply #20 on: 10:13:31, 23-09-2007 »
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Everything in the house has been left almost as it was when he died, 50 years ago today: his white suit, in which he was often photographed in the last years of his life, hangs from the door of his study

What a very peculiar place to hang your suit. He wasn't in it at the time, was he?
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