ESTONIAN SYMPHONIC MUSIC. THE FIRST CENTURY 1896-1996.
have to shift attention from your Head to your spiritual Heart.
Genuine art production must be the source for spiritual nourishment. Real
advancement as I comprehend it stands in mounting higher, nearer to divinity, not vice
versa. The orchestral creation may be considered a powerful means for spiritual growth.
Modern Estonian symphonism exhibits diverse, uneven, splintered tendencies.
Several young composers have shifted their attention to timbres and “pure” sound. The
major, painful problem is the shortage of vigorous, impressive and profound core ideas.
Considering that Estonian symphonism as a profession is just a century old we
can hardly regard ourselves as highly developed. The opinions and evaluations from a
modern perspective may seem an exaggeration, as Rudolf Tobias prophetically stated in
1913.2
Commentary and evaluation is a complicated challenge since no human
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