Finnish Music

I really enjoyed class today. The ending of the movie was really good but extremely sad at the same time. Then, the lecture on Finnish music and history was very interesting. I found it very cool that there were so many dynamics to the Finnish music. I also liked the fact that Finnish music had two very different influences, and the two different types of music sound vastly different. The idea that the music is based off of the past and has to do with their history was also pretty neat. Since Finland had such a vastly different history that even its neighboring countries, which in turn made their culture and language different, which I find weird.

Finnish Music

I wanted to start off by saying how much I enjoyed the film and the ending. I liked how everything was resolved and the son and mother finally talked.

The presentation on Finnish music today was interesting and entertaining. I really enjoyed it, it was definitely one of my favorite guest presentations so far. I had some idea of how important music is to the Finnish culture from the times when I lived there when I was younger. The second time I lived in Finland, I lived in Tampere and the swimming pool we used to go to was named after the Kalevala. I thought that was just a fun tidbit that shows how important and how much of a national epic the Kalevala is. I really enjoyed hearing all of the different kinds of music as well.