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Silent Music - Musiikkia Hiljaiselle Viikolle: Umo Solistinaan Mikko Perkola at Mikael Agricolan Kirkko

Courtesy of Finnish Jazz Federation | Posted on February 3, 2015

Where

Mikael Agricolan Kirkko
Tehtaankatu 23
Helsinki
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When

Fri, April 3, 2015
08:00

Musicians

About

UMO’s traditional Good Friday Silent Music concert at Mikael Agricola Church offers a rare chance to hear what the full and throaty viola da gamba sounds like with a big band. Singer, gamba player and composer Mikko Perkola has created a program of songs written for UMO, as well as pieces written for a smaller ensemble off his upcoming album Epitafi (due out in spring 2015), which he has arranged for the big, 16-strong band featured at the concert. The concert feature the poetry of e.g. Aila Meriluoto and Pablo Neruda, as well as Perkola’s own texts set to music. Poems by Eeva-Liisa Manner and music from the 17th century will also be heard....

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