David Lewis ([log in to unmask]) wrote:

>....  I have recently been listening to Sallinen, Merikanto, Holmboe,
>Rautavaara and Alfven.  There is some great music within this group
>of composers but I cannot remember a UK performance of music by any
>of them.  It would also be possible to extend this list

I had the good fortune last Wednesday to attend a concert here in Victoria
given by Weltblech (Word Brass) an extraordinary group of young players
mostly based in Berlin.

They performed, inter alia, Rautavaara's Playgrounds for Angels which
was a fascinating piece, full of novel effects, even if it did slihgtly
outlast (IMHO) the composer's inspiration.

deryk barker
([log in to unmask], http://www.camosun.bc.ca/~dbarker)