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Finnish composer born in Sweden (1916–1999)
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- neoclassicism, symphony
- Finland
- composer, pianist, film score composer
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2020-11-29 11:43:45
All opera is sado-masochism
This book-length thesis by Axel Englund, professor of literature at the University of Stockholm, aruges that opera is a surrogate for our darkest fantasies and should, ideally, be directed by BDSM practitioners in leather and whips. Pull quote: ‘The opera stage is an arena where the problem of sex, power and violenceis made manifest and […]
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ArtsJournal: music
2019-12-08 14:00:00
Longstanding Member Of Swedish Academy Boycotts Nobel Ceremony For Peter Handke
Peter Englund, the former permanent secretary for the Swedish Academy and a current member, said, ““To celebrate Peter Handke’s Nobel prize would be gross hypocrisy on my part” He is the only current member of the Academy with firsthand experience in Bosnia, according to a journalist, and Handke’s win has been met with horror by […]
2019-11-15 12:17:26
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