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CA: Composer Salonen: Wing On Wing

Walt Disney Concert Hall Los Angeles, CA, United States

As part of the Los Angeles Philharmonic's celebration of Esa-Pekka Salonen the composer, we present the newly revised version of a work he originally composed for the opening of Walt Disney Concert Hall. Beethoven’s towering concerto leads off this marvelous program.

CA: Kalevala Day

Pasadena Museum of History Pasadena, CA, United States

The Los Angeles Chapter celebrates Kalevala Day with a program and potluck luncheon at the Curtin House.

CA: Composer Salonen: Wing On Wing

Walt Disney Concert Hall Los Angeles, CA, United States

As part of the Los Angeles Philharmonic's celebration of Esa-Pekka Salonen the composer, we present the newly revised version of a work he originally composed for the opening of Walt Disney Concert Hall. Beethoven’s towering concerto leads off this marvelous program.

OR: The Eternal Road

Cinema 21 Portland, OR, United States

At the Portland International Film Festival: Based on Antti Tuuri’s bestselling novel, The Eternal Road tells the untold story of the many thousands of Communist Americans who answered Stalin’s call in the 1930's to build a new society in the USSR based on justice, equality, and freedom.  They include Jussi Ketola, an idealistic American with Finnish […]

AZ: Arizona Musicfest

La Casa de Cristo Church Scottsdale, AZ, United States

Russian pianist Olga Kern will be performing Rachmaninoff’s Piano Concerto No. 3 at the Arizona Musicfest. Maestro Robert Moody and the Festival Orchestra begin the evening with Copland’s Fanfare for the Common Man, followed by the Symphony No. 5 by Finnish composer Jean Sibelius.

OR: Fisher Poets Gathering

Second printing of “This Side of Sand Island: Reflections on Fish, Finns and Finding out about Family on the Lower Columbia” will be available at Astoria’s Fisher Poets Gathering, and directly from the author, Victoria Pitkanen Stoppiello. She is a past recipient of a Finlandia Foundation grant. This illustrated essay collection looks, sometimes with a […]

OR: Pianist Janne Oksanen

Portland Piano Company Portland, OR, United States

In Portland, Finnish pianist Janne Oksanen will play works by a Finnish composer relatively unknown outside Finland and a contemporary of Sibelius, Toivo Kuula, in a free concert, “Echoes from […]

ND: Nordic Gala

Dakota Medical Foundation Fargo, ND, United States

Annual Nordic Gala, a silent auction and cultural event, this year featuring Sweden.

NY: Book Event: They Know Not What They Do

Scandinavia House New York, NY, United States

Read and discuss Scandinavian literature in translation as part of our Nordic Book Club. They Know Not What They Do, a psychological novel set in the near future by Jussi Valtonen, grapples with the role technology plays in our relationships, for better and worse. Jussi Valtonen is an author and psychologist from Helsinki, Finland, who now […]

OR: The Eternal Road

Emperical Theater at OMSI Portland, OR, United States

At the Portland International Film Festival: Based on Antti Tuuri’s bestselling novel, The Eternal Road tells the untold story of the many thousands of Communist Americans who answered Stalin’s call in the 1930's to build a new society in the USSR based on justice, equality, and freedom.  They include Jussi Ketola, an idealistic American with Finnish […]