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”Do not dance to the screeching insidious accordions, burn them”

by Ilkka Kolehmainen15 Jun 1989

”The accordion is the arch enemy of folk music. It kills any musical tendencies the nation may have, ravages the ear and drags down musical taste....

Pingoud - the cosmopolitan in Finnish music

by Erkki Salmenhaara13 Mar 1989

Ernest Pingoud was an exceptional figure in Finnish music. During the 1920s and 1930s there can have been no other composers in the country whose works...

Kalevi Aho: a composer of moods

by Kimmo Korhonen13 Mar 1989

"Art should be able to stir us, to wake us from our dreaming and our torpor, so that we should be forced to take a stand...

The Malmstén brothers

by Pekka Gronow31 Jan 1989

America had Bing Crosby, Britain Al Bowlly, France Maurice Chevalier. In the pre-war years, every country had a charming gentleman singer who entertained us on records,...