Yesterday, all my troubles seemed so far away...when I took a bus in the morning to Helsinki and went to Sibelius Academy to listen to the young contestants of the 10th International Jean Sibelius Violin Competition.
Beautiful music, Paganini´s and Bach´s solos for violin, some of the players were only 14-15 years old, but played as good as the ones over twenty. But this is only the first round, the finals are sometime next week.
After lunch I visited an art gallery, Galleria Duetto, where there is an exhibition of Kuutti Lavonen.
He makes mostly all kinds of graphics,and I have not been interested in this art form before, but his works have changed everything. I reserved 3 of his works, even one big serigrafia, which is named "Trop d´amour". I believe that after 50 years Kuutti will be as famous an artist as Helene Schjerfbeck, who was one of the most famous Finnish artists of last century!
In the evening I had more music. I went to Järvenpää, a small town some 30 kms north of Helsinki, to see a kind of musical about tango. Two Finnish popular music singers, Anneli Sari and Amadeus Lundberg sang Argentine tangos accompanied by bandoneon, guitar, piano, violin and bass viol, and a dance group danced tango Argentine style on the stage at the same time.
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