2003

4/2003

Paavo Helistö: Finnish folk music today - and tomorrow?
Hannu Tolvanen: Reinventing the old folk sounds
Samuli Knuuti: The serious business of shouting
Anu Karlson: Folk music is an indefinable concept. Young musician Johanna Juhola
Petri Silas: Directions in music by Jarmo Saari
Anu Karlson: Turku's Sibelius Museum is
a storehouse of information for the researcher
Anu Karlson: "The best Finnish opera choir in the world"

3/2003

Arto Sirén: An ancient instrument enters the modern era
Anu Karlson: There's even an electric clavichord these days!
Eva Helenius-Öberg: "A sweet, delightful sound". The cembal d'amour
Päivi Loponen: The wonders of the human voice
Leena Lehtinen: Let's play house!
Ilkka Mattila: Sensitive sounds of daily chores. The group Cleaning Women
Pekka Hako: Einojuhani Rautavaara's Rasputin is a grand synthesis
Harri Kuusisaari: Art music for the accordion.
Portrait of accordionist Mika Väyrynen
Andrew G. Barnett: Oceanides. The whole story

2/2003

Paula Nurmentaus: Music and meaning. Opera in the vernacular or au naturel?
Anu Karlson: Kalevi Aho: Music speaks true even when words lie
Dietrich Assmann: Opera librettos translated in two ways
Anu Karlson: Liisa Ryömä loves music theatre but has her doubts about opera
Harri Kuusisaari: Growth in music for the theatre
Petri Silas: The two cycles of Finnish progressive rock
Anu Karlson: Henrik Otto Donner: "We need more dialogue
between the institutions and the arts outside them"
Liisamaija Hautsalo: Mezzo-soprano Lilli Paasikivi
hastening slowly into the heavyweight series
Juha Torvinen: Tauno Marttinen, composer of intuition and inspiration

1/2003

Paavo Helistö: The magic of dusky wood and reed. New music for clarinet
Anu Karlson: Kari Kriikku - ready for both serious quests and circus
acts Mikael Helasvuo - roaming on the bounds of possibility
Liisamaija Hautsalo: Sliding in sound. Material and
immaterial images in Kaija Saariaho's flute music
Kari Laitinen: Wind music in Finland. From military band to youth orchestra
Gregory Barrett: In search of a lost chamber work.
Introducing Jean Sibelius's En Saga Septet for Flute, Clarinet, and Strings
Petri Silas: Päivinen's progress. A portrait of saxophonist/composer
Pepa Päivinen The dreamteam of Finnish improvisation
Helena Tyrväinen: Helsinki-Saint Petersburg-Paris.
The Franco-Russian Alliance and Finnish-French musical relations