Pakkanen painaa

Very cold weather still keeps us in its freezing fingers here in Finland. And that is not nice at all. No chance to take any long walks in the outside world. The temperature right now is -30 Celcius degrees.

I worked for some hours with my composition Elaa varjo (= The Shadow Lives). Only Sini's singing and possible J-V's guitar solo are missing. Sini already began rehearsing her parts.

Earlier today I listened to a wonderful flutist playing W.A. Mozart. Sharon Bezaly is very skilful, actually virtuosic flautist and her tone is so beautiful . There were some add-ons, cadenzas written by Kalevi Aho. They were a bit surprising to hear, sort of virtuosic modernization of Mozart. Anyways wonderful music.

Juha H.