He mystified his Finnish countrymen with an unstoppable flow of compositions. He was also, one journalist said, “an alarming person to interview.” By Adam Nossiter As the orchestra searches for a new ...

Composer Jean Sibelius is a hero to all Finns, most Englishmen and many Americans. His music is heavy enough to sound profound—something like the work of a rural and obstinate Brahms. It seemed ...

Learning to read Finnish in school enabled Jean Sibelius to appreciate the great Finnish epic known as the Kalevala. The stories stayed with him from his youth, and as an adult he wrote a set of four ...

Luonnotar Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra Leif Segerstam, Conductor Soile Isokoski, Soprano Jean Sibelius, Composer (6) Songs, Movements: The echo nymph (wds. Kyösti: 1915) Leif Segerstam, Conductor ...

Join Boston University music professor Jeremy Yudkin as he previews the Boston Symphony Orchestra’s Aug. 17 program at Tanglewood. The concert opens with "Threnody: In Memory of Jean Sibelius" by ...

I attended my first morning concert by the San Diego Symphony on Friday, February 28. The concert started at 11 am, and I was happy to have the day free in order to attend. I’ve reached an age where a ...

(A) Song for Lemminkäinen (Laulu Lemminkäisell Estonian National Male Choir Estonian National Symphony Orchestra Jean Sibelius, Composer Neeme Järvi, Conductor Hymn of the earth (Maan virsi) Jean ...

Pelleas and Melisande was such a poignant story that four different composers set it to music. Faure, Debussy, and Schoenberg all made settings of the story, and so did Jean Sibelius. Sibelius wrote ...

Master composer Jean Sibelius turned 80 on December 8, 1945. He was not an easy case for filmmakers, as his world had long been closed to outsiders. He was associated with prestige, age and respect.