Review of Alma! - a kinetic opera by Minna Leinonen:
The fantastic tapestry of a woman’s life
"Minna Leinonen manages to pull off the most important requirement in writing an opera: to write music that perfectly merges with the other elements surrounding it but nevertheless retains its own voice. [- -] I would not hesitate to describe Alma! as a major breakthrough for Leinonen."
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Culture corona crisis continues
The freelancer musicians' pandemic
The Covid-19 pandemic has been a boom time for freelancers, according to Forbes. But not for freelance musicians.
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In your headphones and on the town:
Musica nova Helsinki 2021
The theme for the contemporary music festival Musica nova Helsinki this year (2–10 February) is Polytopia, referring to a plurality of locations and performance practices. The programme features world premieres, spatial art, evocative soundscapes and a societal dimension. Events with live audiences cannot be held due to the coronavirus restrictions still in place, but the festival is going ahead with a roster of online performances and radio broadcasts.
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On my music and beyond:
Advocating for the human touch
"With my works and with the way I write them, I advocate for the human touch in our increasingly cold and technological world," writes composer Kalevi Aho. This column is part of the series where composers and other music makers write about their music.
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Elifantree’s global rhythm adventure
Genre-bending trio Elifantree keeps challenging itself – this time creating music with eight drummers in as many countries.
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FMQ Special Feature 4/2020:
The year 2020 in music - Notes for the future
FMQ Special Feature 4/2020 takes a look back at the year now ending and raises issues which have grown increasingly important during the present exceptional circumstances and which we should keep in mind once the crisis has passed.
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Classical world pulling through – concerts here and abroad
In November 2020, the pandemic situation in Finland has remained calm enough for cultural functions to carry on.* In these exceptional times, there is an unusually great hunger for art, and socially distanced concerts provide a vital antidote to anxiety and uncertainty.
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From the Archives (1985–2005)
FMQ began life as a printed magazine – the Finnish Music Quarterly – in 1985. Until 2005, its articles were only available in hard copy.
Selected articles from our back catalogue have been posted online, and the selection is continuously being added to.
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