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”And how does the avant-garde feel this morning?” - Paavo Heininen: Credo

by Tapani Länsiö15 Dec 1994

In 1994 FMQ addressed this question to two very significant, and oh so very different Finnish composer personalities, Paavo Heininen and Einojuhani Rautavaara. Tapani Länsiö, himself...

Pekka Pohjola – Music speaks without words

by Vesa Sirén15 Aug 1994

“The world's best bass player”. Pekka Pohjola had this dinned into him all through the seventies: he was the Jaco Pastorius of the North, a man...

Usko Meriläinen: Being a composer in Finland (from the Archives)

by Usko Meriläinen04 Jan 1994

"In the main, a composer’s work consists of listening 'inside the self' and the imagining of sonic phenomena in the privacy of one’s own cell."