Word: finlander
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Administration officials appeared reconciled tonight to the fact that on Saturday the government will collect only Finland's $228,538 of the total $154,729,967 war debt installments falling...
...native to Finland as its fjords and forests, its long dark winters and its northern lights is Composer Jean Julius Christian Sibelius. But not until last winter in Helsingfors did this aging national hero hear his music played exactly as he conceived it. Conductor of that extraordinary concert was a young U.S. citizen named Werner Janssen. Because the great Sibelius pronounced him great, Conductor Janssen got his chance last fortnight to lead the New York Philharmonic-Symphony (TIME...
Werner Janssen could have had no higher recommendation. In the past ten years the name of Jean Julius Christian Sibelius has spread far beyond Finland's narrow borders. Authoritative critics now rate him as one of the world's great composers and respect him all the more for his quiet independent ways. Few great musicians have refused to advertise themselves, to bask in the hot spotlight of the world's leading music capitals. But Sibelius, who was born of Finnish farming stock, nursed on Finnish folksongs, has remained resolutely Finnish to this day. In his course...
...longtime fashion was to label most of Sibelius' music gloomy and mystical, a dark artistic reflection of Finland with its stark pine trees and the mists rising over its many black lakes. Sibelius' songs and piano music are relatively unimportant. In his first two symphonies his speech was chiefly of Finland but thereafter he seemed more determined to make absolute music which would speak for itself...
...again last week. Last month the League of Nations took U. S. S. R. into its fold of respectability (TIME, Oct. 1). Straightway King Gustaf, by no complicated chain of associations, thought of the Aland Islands. The Aland Archipelago in the elbow of the Baltic Sea separating Sweden and Finland is the ticklish spot in Sweden's naval strategy. Overlooking the harbor of Stockholm, the Alands are some 300 sandy, stony little islands and one big one. They are full of Swedes but, after 600 years of being passed around among Sweden, Denmark, Finland and Russia, they now belong...