Finlandia Flash Mob -- Palo Alto, California 

I concur !

Thats horrible and i love it!

...and Finny Hinni

Quality is universal

And much love TO Finland!

I know! Of course, he happens to be Finnish. It takes a certain dedication...

By sissu do you mean sisu?

Yes, whatever the correct spelling is.

Whole song is called that. That part you mentioned is what some Americans know as Be still My Soul, a christian hymn.

Try also Sibelius "Valse Triste"

No reason to exaggerate.

@@HiReeZin Not a single bit, I'm a Finn and proud of it, this adaptation is so beautiful. Maybe it doesn't land home to you, maybe you don't value freedom, peace and love for all mankind, but I do, and that makes me cry out of joy.

Yup. I can’t imagine a Finnish person not loving Finlandia.@@WandaII

Kiitos! Oli mahtavaa. So happy that everyone is enjoying also the video.

it's on utube.

ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-PEczLzpVigQ.html

They did it again a ~week ago at the Helsinki international airport. By Club for five, an acapella band. Got chills

And here's the link from the performance done at the railway station 5 years ago: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-jaKko3VGAnY.html

Samaa mieltä

Kari Janatuinen, Finlandia was composed in 1899-1900 (40 years before the Winter War). It is a musical piece of romantic nationalism, composed during a time of peril, oppression and "russification" by Char Nikolay II's regime, but it has NOTHING to do with the Winter war of 1939-40. Sibelius intended Finlandia to be a symphonic instrumental piece, without lyrics, and when different lyrics started emerging, he was not happy about it. At least not in the beginning. Even the currently best known Finnish lyrics (made by V.A. Koskenniemi in 1940) are compatible with the original spirit of 1899, they are not about the Winter War. We can still be proud of our forefathers' achievements in Summa. But let's keep facts and fiction separated. Finlandia was not composed, nor written because of those achievements.

In Tali-Ihantala, along with artillery and bazookas, you also had help from the German Luftwaffe. And that was one of the very few good things these buggers ever did during all the time from 1937 (attack on Guernica) and 1945 (end of show). I went to a wonderful concert organized by the Embassy in the Berlin Philharmony on Finland's 100th anniversary - best wishes for many mor years to come!

I would go with that they don't know a word of Finnish, but they did give a damn good effort =)

@@duhni4551:: some of them look like Finns; most are obviously not of Finnish ethnicity, although they could still be citizens of Finland. I would be very surprised that there could be that many Finns in Palo Alto. CALIF is primarily Asian and Hispanic.

@@leeb.7188 Yeh, Finland is small nation in the first place with low population, it is not that whole country moved to USA in the first place.

@@duhni4551 : Yes, unlike Vietnam. I think half their population moved to Southern Calif, hahaha. But that would be too hot for the Finns. Also, I think they prefer to stay in their own country because it is economically very successful. The Finns who came to the US generations ago all settled in Northern Minnesota and Northern Michigan because they prefer cold and snow.

@@leeb.7188 That is the case generally and there weren't that many Finns who moved out back in the day either, i think Nordics in general stuck together in the regions which makes it seem like there were more from one nation while in reality there were people from all over the Nordics. There are some work based moving from here to there but it is not in such scale that you would notice it in the streets. But i do like the fact that even our small nation has had our impact on US. history, no matter how small it has been =) We are such small nation that it always feels amazing if we have managed to leave our fingerprints in the world =D

The clarinet pitch is a bit flat.

that hymn part is what it's all about.

B. Maurene White the hymn part is the best but it wasn't performed so well in this video.

SERMU7 it has probably something to do with the fact that Finnish is notoriously hard and the majority of the singer weren't native speakers. Taking that into account, the song was great

Ei kai tämmöset paikalliset amatööriläiset omaa niin paljoa aikaa =) Mutta täytyy antaa 10 efortista =)