Word: finnish
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...which Mr. Fosdick last year distributed for the Rockefeller Foundation, no Italian, Japanese or Russian institution received a cent. In Germany the only beneficiary was the University of Freiburg, which received $19,600. But English institutions received $671,980; French $216,800; Scandinavian and Finnish $191,225. To help the Chinese Government "make over a medieval society in terms of modern knowledge," the Rockefeller Foundation last year allotted $843,875. But "the work, the devotion, the resources, the strategic plans of Chinese leaders for a better China, have disappeared in an almost unprecedented cataclysm of violence. . . . The Foundation still maintains...
Exhibited at Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art last week were three types of art from three nations. In one room were examples of U. S. industrial art in machined metal and glass. In another the Museum displayed modern furniture, scientifically designed in pale plywood by the brilliant Finnish architect, Alvar Aalto. Balancing these examples of machine and functional art was a third room in which visitors found reportorial art of the most sensitive kind-an exhibition of 105 drawings made in Spain by the Leftist artist, Luis Quintanilla...
...noted Finnish composer whose Origin of Fire, played in the U. S. for the first time early in 1938 by the Boston Symphony Orchestra, is (1 Werner Janssen, 2 Robert Kajanus, 3 Richard Strauss, 4 Jean Sibelius, 5 Eugene Ormandy...
They will present to their Boston audience music not only of Sibelius, but of various Finnish composers, including arrangements of folk songs of their own people...
From there all-Finnish repertoire the chorus will sing here works by the composers Sibelius, Genetz, Kajanus, Jarnfelt, Haapalainen, Tornudd, Pesola, Turunen, Madetoja, Maasaio, Kuula, and Palmgren...