Watch: Kaija Saariaho’s last work
NewsHer trumpet concerto HUSH premiered in Helsinki last night.
The soloist was Verneri Pohjola. Susanna Mälkki conducted.
Watch the performance here.
Read the review here.
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Wow! I hate it.
OK.Not that we care.
Fantastic!
And the award for world’s ugliest pipe organ goes to….
If you’re referring to the pipes above the orchestra, your aesthetic concepts are rooted in the 16th Century. I even love the pipes at Disney Hall in Los Angeles. Roll with the times, Mr. Hot Car Lot.
Mr.Hot Car Lot´s cars might not be so hot either….
Long before this video, this organ and its case were the subject of much discussion. It is designed in part to help concertgoers envision the Finnish forest which the Finns – justly – are quite proud of not only for their beauty but also for the part those forests play in the world’s ecology. It’s too bad more concert halls, both American and others, don’t have pipe organs in them so that their audiences can hear the music in the way their composers intended. Electronic/digital organs are phony.
And the new organ that she donated to the Music Hall of Helsinki can be seen in the picture behind the orchestra.
The organic pipe group facade is to let the air stream freely. Actual organ pipes are behind. The organ has 123 tones and they are Rieger orgelbaun. Might not be so pretty facade but ‘only the sound remains’, with which I mean it is the sound that counts. These are one of world’s largest concert organ.