Memorable Friday ... Outi got tickets for herself and me to Mahler's 8th - symphony of thousand in this year's Helsingin Juhlaviikot. The symphony got it's nick name from being first performed by over 1000 musicians (1028 ?). Esa-Pekka Salonen condunting, 2 orchestras and 3 choirs all together 400 musicians in this performance. Could not help the shivers and some tears during the last moments of the symphony. Amazing music - amazing performance. Actually sort of difficult to understand why we as a nation of 5M people have such large number of talented musicians.Lucky that there were other values besides global economic effectiveness when it was composed - nowadays nobody could compose anything like that since it would be economically totally stupid. Just makes you think what will be missing, what is left to unfound, what things are not invented since everything is dominated by shere money....
After the concert Outi drop me to Eiranranta were I had rendez-vous with Nummi family and our gang. They picked me up to the boat from Kompassi, and we headed to right front of the Hernesaari were the Finnish fireworks championships was taking place. With Markus's defined instinct we ended up into just perfect position... fireworks looked bloody amazing from that spot ! And it was like all the boats in capital region were there - looked great. Made me think Egotrippi way (again) "In these hours there's something I'd like to own"
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I agree ! We went to see Esa Pekka in San Francisco and it was just amazing. No wonder he is the leader of one of the great orchestra in the world: Los Angeles Symphony Orchestra.
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