{"id":2357,"date":"2014-10-26T14:29:29","date_gmt":"2014-10-26T21:29:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/?p=2357"},"modified":"2014-10-27T10:05:28","modified_gmt":"2014-10-27T17:05:28","slug":"saariaho-finnish-composer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/2014\/10\/saariaho-finnish-composer.html","title":{"rendered":"Saariaho: Finnish Composer"},"content":{"rendered":"

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ONE of the several nice things about conductor Esa-Pekka Salonen being back more solidly in Los Angeles, where he has a post with the LA Phil, is the steady infusion of strong new or modern music from Scandinavia, a region which has been on a roll for the last few decades.<\/p>\n

Last night I saw a Salonen-conducted concert at Walt Disney Concert Hall that includes pieces by Janacek, Sibelius and the conductor’s Finnish contemporary, Kaija Saariaho.<\/p>\n

Her piece Earth Shadows<\/em> (Maan varjot<\/em> in Finnish), made its world premiere in Montreal in the spring. It has a second movement that is just as eerie and harmonically strange as Brian Eno’s ’70s music. The piece, which includes an organ, deserve\"R-150-3273290-1323455231\"<\/a>s\u00a0to be performed more widely. There’s a descending figure on the strings that made me feel like my seat was moving.<\/p>\n

Here’s<\/a> Mark Swed’s review of the whole concert.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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