ESTONIAN SYMPHONIC MUSIC. THE FIRST CENTURY 1896-1996.
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Päevaleht 4 Nov. 1993.
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Westdeutsche Zeitung [Düsseldorf] 19 Nov. 1996.
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Hans Hubert Schieffer. With a lovable idyll Rheinische Post 19 Nov. 1996.
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‘ERSO – 70’ Kultuurileht 10 Jan. 1997.
With two concerts ERSO participated in the international Menukhin Festival in
Switzerland, Gstaad 1997, by the invitation of its leader Gidon Kremer. The ERSO
performances were accepted with rapturous applause and the orchestra played a number
of encores.1
JUHAN AAVIK (1884-1982)
He was one of the most prominent, versatile and merited musicians during the
first independence period, whose activities were tightly connected with the
development of Estonian music for more than three decades (1911-1944), his activities
as a conductor formed just a part of it. Aavik as a symphonist was not very active in the
last years of the Republic due to the many tasks in the cultural field of Estonia. Much
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