Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Canberra Symphony Orchestra's first concert of its 2015 series celebrates the life and music of the great Finnish composer Jean Sibelius ...

The people of Finland and the Finnish government were so appreciative of the music Jean Sibelius (b. Dec. 8, 1865) composed honoring the nature, history and mythology of his homeland that he was given ...

Jean Sibelius, born 150 years ago on Dec. 8, 1865, was the first Finnish composer to reach an international audience, but his popularity began at home. In the late 1890s, Finland was a part of the ...

Sculpture Of composer Jean Sibelius at the Sibelius Monument in Helsinki, Finland. This is the 150th anniversary year of the birth of Finland's greatest composer, so I bet we'll be hearing a lot of ...

The hot ticket for classical music lovers this month is a cool Finn: Jean Sibelius, whose 150th birthday is the catalyst for a mini-festival featuring all seven of the Finnish composer’s symphonies ...

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Jean Sibelius said of his own symphonies that they were an “expression of a spiritual creed, a phase of one’s inner life.” The sixth he referred to as “pure, clear water,” and the symphony is ...

The Kansas City Symphony shines in performances of music by César Franck, Zoltán Koldály and Jean Sibelius. We'll hear Franck's Symphony in D minor, Koldály's "Concerto for Orchestra," and the ...

Finnish composer Jean Sibelius wrote seven fine symphonies over the course of about 25 years. This evening on Symphony @ 7, I'll have his first foray into the genre with Symphony No. 1 in E minor. But ...

Our complete set of the symphonies by Jean Sibelius continues with his Symphony No. 5 — triumphant music that also reflects the struggles of the composer as he wrote the piece during WWI. Sakari Oramo ...

At the symphony's finale, full of brass and grandeur, music director Osmo Vänskä's baton was still outstretched, the string players' bows still suspended in the air, when the hollering started. The ...

For the sesquicentennial of the composer's birth, Michael Steinberg introduces his proud and sometimes mysterious music, confirming his reputation... Finland's Finest: The Seven Symphonies Of Jean ...