Music Task

Last Thursday, 8 of October, in the Centrian konserttisali it was held the Centria Night Music. Although I couldn’t assist to all the concerts, I got a really good view of the different styles that were played.

One of the plays in the concert was from J. Sibelius, a Finnish composer who was born in 1865 in Hämeenlinna. From what I read in the internet, he composed music for orchestra, mainly for piano and violin, but he also composed music for choir and orchestra. The composer said this in an interview with Berlingske Tidende, 10th June 1919: “Music begins where the possibilities of language end. That is why I write music”. This gave me an idea of what kind of composer was him. He played a really important role in the definition of the Finnish national identity and now a days he is remembered as one of the best Finnish composers.

The group that I saw played Jägargossen by J.Sibelius. The singer was Aksel Alakärppä, baritone and in the piano there was Pauliina Virkkala. I don’t go to listen to opera often, but I must say I could enjoy that piece of Finnish music, even if I couldn’t understand it, the melody of it and the voice of Aksel made me feel like I wasn’t touching the grown anymore and in my mind there was only that music. I also saw other groups who sang in English, one of them, the soft potatoes, had our friend Colin Harvey who played really good. Then there was another group who sang in English but they added one more song that was not on the leaflet and I think it was in Finnish. Anyway the concerts were amazing and the strength of the musicians gave the public the feeling of being part of the music.