Concert review - Justyna Bernat

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On Friday, 5th December I went to the concert organised by Ny Start Church. There I listened to songs sang by Finnish people in English, beautiful version of well known melodies in African way and Spanish songs. I enjoyed my time and in the future I'd like to attend this kind of concert again. 

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The main topic of the concert were Christmas songs and own versions of them. I enjoyed the most versions of Kaj Kiviniemi from Great Wide North group. His voice was very nice and it was a pleasure to be there. I liked also Spanish songs, I learn this language so it was nice to hear and at the same time understand the lyrics. 

Concert review - Pawel Kozimor

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Before we had task to go to concert I already went for one concert which had place in Central Ostrobothnia Conservatory. It was free concert made by group Soul Crew. I couldn’t find more information about composers because all information about it which I found were in Finnish and also concert except lyrics was in Finnish but I know that some of composers were studying at Central Ostrobothnia Conservatory.

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I have to admit that I went on this concert because I was bored end I thought it will be boring because it is not music which I listen but when they started to play I really liked and most of the songs was very good. Songs were very rhythmic and danceable. Music which they played it was Funk music and some people were dancing and all people really liked their performance so they had to play extra song at the end. Since I went to this concert I listen sometimes Funk music. I also recorded short video when they were playing.

Concert Review.....by Enitan Odupitan

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Since the class couldn't come to a uniform decision on which concert we need to visit as a group, I opted for the one I could easily attend. This was on Friday 5th December, 2014, and the venue was at the Ny Start Church. This was part of the program put together by the church in celebration of the yuletide season, I initially thought it will be a religious performance but I was mistaken. Lots of melodies were sang and I was marveled at the atmosphere, it was really a great night and I never had any regrets attending the concert. English tunes were sang, in addition to the African melodies and Finnish versions of this lovely songs.

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This was actually the first time I will be listening to music being done in Finnish, the rhythm is so soothing and mind-relaxing, I will definitely honor an invitation to visit any Finnish concert in the future. I have a new and wider view of Finnish music and I am motivated to search more of these rhythms online. One of the songs that really got my attention from the list of songs was that of a Finnish composer which was actually a group by the name Great Wide North led by Kaj Kiviniemi, from records this group made it to the finals of the EuroVision Pre-selection.

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I visited a musical concert at Ny Start Church on the 5^th December 2014. The concert was about Pre Christmas Carol night. There were a lot of international and Finish composers. Among the Finnish composers included the GREAT WIDE NORTH group led by Kaj Kiviniemi, this group was one of the finalist in 2013 Finnish Eurovision Pre-selection. Other Finnish composer was Juuso Salvolainen.  There was also an African Music Group. 

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The concert was very fun, entertaining and energetic. The Finnish composers’ rock us with classical Finnish carol sings. The tempo of the Finnish songs makes you relaxed. The Finnish Group that rocked the night was Great Wide North. Their songs were electrifying. It was awesome and fun. The African composers also gave their version of carol songs which made the place very entertaining. This concert still rock in my mind.    

Concert review :)... by Dominika

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Since I visited a ballet exhibition, they were playing only classical music there, and the most played Finnish composer was Sibelius. But we already spoke about him with Linda so I chose another one.

But I was especially impressed by Tuomas Kantelinen. He is a Finnish composer, who studied composition at the Sibelius Academy. He is best known for his scores for films, but he has also composed an opera, chamber music and orchestral works as well as music for television shows and commercials.

Here is a link to some of his pieces. Enjoy!

http://kantelinen.net/purge.html 

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On Monday December 11, at 6 o´clock p.m., I visited K-P:n Konservatorion Baletti – Joulunäytös. This Christmas ballet exhibition took place in Snellman Hall (Vingenkatu 18). The Snellman Hall is the main concert hall in Kokkola and home of the Ostrobothnian Chamber Orchestra. The hall has approximately 600 seats.

It was actually my friend´s child´s performance. Every ballet school from Kokkola comes annually there to perform what children (ballet students) have learnt throughout the year. It was actually almost breath-taking. I have never been to something like that before. The whole hall was overcrowded, ballet dancers were dancing very well and even the music was really awesome. 

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DOMINIKA