Conductor Paavo Järvi • Living The Classical Life • Ep. 98 

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If on time, it will be this upcoming Friday! He is such a character and we think his episode is particularly entertaining and insightful. We hope you will enjoy it! -Zsolt

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I like very much your work. It is so rare to “get” as much from the interviewer as from the interviewee. It took me some time to realize you had a “new Chanel” not connected to the former one. But now I am on track. Congratulations for your work again

@@frandrepol7204 yes I think the switch, which was necessary for a few reasons beyond our control, has confused many people alas. It's our hope that people will eventually find their way to this one, where we will be releasing new episodes each Friday at current pace, now that we are with a new production company. We're trying to find new ways to bring stories to you including with new production values--we hope to make a difference--thanks again, zsolt

We love that story--thanks for sharing it! Yes, the hall is amazing, and also it's incredible to see how it is absolutely packed to capacity during the festival. Thanks for watching!

maybe she might start seeing Paavo with them suggestions

OK. I studded, in G. Ots music school, with Paavo Jarvy, before they left for USA. He was couple of years younger, playing flute. is it good enough for you to make your son dating me?)))

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Thanks so much for this--the composer is Arvo Pärt, whose birthday is in fact today! Incredible music with quite a range. We are so glad you like the new developments with the show--we've been working hard to find new ways to tell stories, and to give it precise thought with regards to each guest. -Zsolt

We plan the release for one week from today, meaning Friday September 16, assuming all is on schedule. Thanks so much--we hope you will enjoy it--we feel it will be one of our best.

Thank you for your support Andrea-we look forward to filming you on the series in October in New York!

Maybe we can ask him to clarify--in the meantime, thank you for watching! -zsolt

Perhaps anti-Semitism in Estonia is much less than it was during the first half of the 20th century. We're three generations beyond that period.

Thank you so much for sharing-I’ve been trying to examine for example the role of highly visible and magnificent Jewish artists who were promoted by the Soviets, indeed Oistrakh and also my other favorite, Gilels. Hard for me to tell with the sources available to English speakers but I’m still trying to grasp it all. Thanks so much for watching! -zsolt

We can't deny the right of Estonian people to complain about the dangers of "Russification." If they feel that way, so it be. What puzzled me was an almost dismissive enumeration of "Soviets" (!) visiting his father's house. Even more, why are Russian music figures so prominently in their repertoire?

@@cedat1395 Surely he wasn't trying to be dismissive about the visitors at their house, other than when he mentioned him as a kid not being interested in "old people" and their musings. He emphasized the SU being behind the iron curtain - meaning that cultural exchange was allowed mostly only inside SU. Western cultural influence was actively being blocked by the communist/kremlin regime (so there could be no visitors from the west by principle). There was plenty of talent in the SU, no reason whatsoever to be dismissive about this. Classical arts was one of the few things regarded highly in the SU, so this was one of the ways to keep small cultures and languages alive during these extremely suppressive times under russian occupation that followed after the end of WWII. The SU was by no means an union of the willing. The Eastern European countries became the front for russia. Literally during the war to be exploited and subjugated into union republics forcefully and illegally under the kremlin rule. Many in the west are just now learning the true history of the eastern Europe during these times, and understandably there is a backreaction to what they have been told by the russifying elites. It's about time to stop romanticizing the socalled russian culture and stare into the eyes of the beast for what it was and still demonstrates to be, blatantly and proudly I might add, for everyone to see in Ukraine. There are no more excuses to believe any of the propaganda and lies that come from russia. You can see this happening in all of the formerly occupied countries by russia. There was a reckoning for the Germans for what they caused during WWII, but there has been no reconing for the russians for their equal part in WWII. This is what we are now telling the world frankly and straight.