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...Club will use its newly-built Finnish sauna as a big selling point in its membership meeting at 7:30 tonight in the Adams House Upper Common Room...
...fellow, untidily dressed"), and he went home to Finland imbued with Germanic musical vision, but with a style of his own. His early music-En Saga, Finlandia and other tone poems-is filled with striding themes, echoes of folk tunes, broadly brooding melodies that reminded listeners of the good Finnish earth and established Sibelius as the composer of unfettered nature. With his occasional Nordic rages, he sounded like Brahms gone berserk, but he was also capable of a strongly appealing lyricism. His symphonies, with their acrid dissonances, their brassy shouts and cool, lonely instrumentation, seemed even closer to the stark...
Scherzo to Finale. His life was without outward struggle. A doctor's son, Sibelius had been back home after his studies in Germany for only six years when the Finnish government gave him a 2,000-marks-a-year pension (about $400) so that he could devote all his time to music. He settled down with his wife in a white clapboard house at Lake Tuusula, where they raised five daughters. By the early 1920s, he had turned out 13 tone poems, seven symphonies, countless songs and choral works. He attempted an opera with no success ("I like opera...
Died. Jean Sibelius, 91, world-famed Finnish composer; of a cerebral hemorrhage; near Helsinki (see Music...
...Aristotelian logic, and plunge hotly down into a labor-management debate on productivity. Executives are encouraged to express their views vigorously, apply the ideas culled from their readings to the present world of business and politics. Discussions often run over into the exercise room or into the sauna (Finnish bath), where Philosopher Adler last week led a lively argument on justice and charity in 175° heat. Only occasionally do discussions get hotter: one chairman of a large corporation threatened to pull his money out of a bank represented by a glib young vice president who differed with...