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Tapkaara · Posted: Thu Aug 13, 2009 1:29 pm Post subject:

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'In this piece you may find it a matter of some difficulty to keep your places. I think you may do well to imagine yourself disporting on some form of hair-raising locomotion such as Brooklands, or a switchback railway. My advice to you is merely: hold tight and do not let yourselves fall off. I cannot guarantee to help you on again'.

Sir Thomas Beecham was once rehearsing 'Lemminkainen's return' and he gave his orchestra the above advice.--kp

Great quote and even better caricature! Oh, that Sir Thomas...

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kullervopete · Posted: Thu Sep 03, 2009 9:00 am Post subject:

'In my opinion, the music of Sibelius does not lend itself to comparison or classification. It is like a meteorite that fell from the sky'-- Herbert von Karajan, conductor.

Interesting analogy from the man that Sibelius considered the best conductor of his music towards the end of his life. Karajan is surely right. More than fifty years after his death, Sibelius is a composer who still refuses to be pigeon-holed.--kp

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kullervopete · Posted: Mon Sep 21, 2009 9:47 am Post subject:

'I believe that in the years to come, due in part to the unique psychological dimensions of his music, Sibelius will be recognized as the most important composer of the 20th Century, and perhaps of all time'.--Dr. Jozan Dirk Mosig.

The above quote is taken from a presentation [The archetypal power of Sibelius] Dr. Mosig gave at the third international Jean Sibelius conference in Helsinki in 2000.
Dr. Mosig is a professor of Psychology and a Zen Buddhist. He is also an 8th degree black belt.

Sibelius described his Fourth Symphony as a 'Psychological Symphony' and I have always felt that much of his music originates from deep in the human psyche. Dr. Mosig makes a big claim for Sibelius's ultimate position in music, but one that I would certainly not rule out.--kp

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Dr. Jozan Dirk Mosig.

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kullervopete wrote:

'I believe that in the years to come, due in part to the unique psychological dimensions of his music, Sibelius will be recognized as the most important composer of the 20th Century, and perhaps of all time'.--Dr. Jozan Dirk Mosig.

I wouldn't doubt this statement for a moment... once people get their minds off of the first four notes of Beethoven's fifth or the last 30 seconds or so of the 1812 overture by... who was it again???

Kurkikohtaus · Posted: Sat Sep 26, 2009 4:02 am Post subject:

kullervopete wrote:

Dr. Mosig is a professor of Psychology and a Zen Buddhist. He is also an 8th degree black belt.

So in other words, don't mess with him. Wink

kullervopete · Posted: Sat Oct 31, 2009 11:21 am Post subject:

'He appears to make frequent stays in Berlin, London and Paris, where the decadence of Debussy, Strauss and Elgar is highly catching! We must therefore take leave of the former Sibelius, the enchanting interpreter of his homeland'.

This comment appeared in a St Petersburg Newspaper following a performance of Sibelius's third Symphony in 1907.
Elgar decadent--the mind boggles! -- Laughing

--kp

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