Word: finlandia
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...pleasant garden on Mt. Desert Island off the coast of Maine, a rosy old man sat tootling on a recorder. "I'm not really musical," he explained to a guest, between puffs, and proceeded to prove it with a squeaky rendition of Finlandia. Suddenly he blew a sour note. "Oh, thunder!" exclaimed Mark Anthony DeWolfe Howe. "That makes me so angry...
...battles on alone, aided only by miracles. His Olga Song ("Olga-whose eyes were violets / Olga-whose tears were pearls . . .") is a smash hit, partly because Olga comes "down" with a heavenly choir and sings it herself. His Olga Lasenka Symphony is hailed as "as great as Sibelius' Finlandia." But Tightpants is not present when it is performed in Carnegie Hall. Burned to death in a nightclub fire, he has joined Olga in the homelandia of a Wilkes-Barre grave...
Composer Jean (Finlandia) Sibelius, 87, great bald eagle of symphonic music, was named winner of the first international Wihuri Foundation music award (after Millionaire Finnish Shipowner Antti Wihuri) for "promoting the spiritual and economic work of humanity." The $21,250 prize money, added to the generous lifetime annuity he gets from a grateful Finland, should keep him puffing his beloved cigars till the end of his days...
...these were extremes; the more substantial numbers on the program included Enesco's. Roumanian Rhapsody No. 1, Vaughn Williams' Fantasia on "Greensleeves," and Sibelius' Finlandia (the last complete with the popping of champagne corks during the dramatic pauses of the opening section). Rossini's overture to La Gazza Ladra (The Thieving Magpie) showed off the orchestra's first-rate woodwind section. And an arrangement of Cry proved to be a hilarious satire, with quotations from several symphonic works, imitations of whimpering by the trumpets and growling by the horns, and a most realistic baby cry--by a member...
...governor could not quite see what the fuss was about. He was "no longer intrigued by the sight of an undressed woman," he said somewhat irrelevantly, and furthermore a magazine called Finlandia Pictorial, then & there on his desk, showed all sorts of public nude statues in Finland. "We all know," said he, "that the Finns are a moral people." But Tom Mabry, a Democrat, was up for reelection, and arranged to hear both sides: the artists, and three churchmen, led by the head of the local Ministerial Alliance, a Protestant group...