Today is Jean Sibelius' 155th birthday!
I was one year old when he died, aged 91.
I have loved his music since a 1960s SNO schools concert.
That concert was also memorable because the roof fell in. Or at least a big chunk of it crashed down into an aisle.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BQHZQMivthU
I was one year old when he died, aged 91.
I have loved his music since a 1960s SNO schools concert.
That concert was also memorable because the roof fell in. Or at least a big chunk of it crashed down into an aisle.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BQHZQMivthU
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It has been the tune my phone alarm plays for decades and is freighted with emotion. I frequently march around the house to it and feel buoyed up by a great wave of happy memory.
When I'm drunk it makes me cry.