{"id":4968,"date":"2015-09-30T10:57:26","date_gmt":"2015-09-30T08:57:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/erso.ee\/maaratlemata-en\/estonian-national-symphony-orchestra-holds-a-special-session-in-the-parliament-of-estonia-enso-press-release\/"},"modified":"2022-08-22T07:19:38","modified_gmt":"2022-08-22T05:19:38","slug":"estonian-national-symphony-orchestra-holds-a-special-session-in-the-parliament-of-estonia-enso-press-release","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/erso.ee\/en\/2015\/09\/estonian-national-symphony-orchestra-holds-a-special-session-in-the-parliament-of-estonia-enso-press-release\/","title":{"rendered":"Estonian National Symphony Orchestra holds a special session in the Parliament of Estonia ENSO press release"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>On the morning of 1 October (International Music Day), the Estonian National Symphony Orchestra greets Parliament on Toompea.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>At 9:30 am in the White Hall of Parliament, a concert begins featuring Arvo P\u00e4rt\u2019s \u201cCantus in Memory of Benjamin Britten\u201d, Eduard Tubin\u2019s \u201cLong Anglaise\u201d and \u201cSetu Dance\u201d. Afterwards, the orchestra greets the city residents from the balcony of Toompea Castle, playing the Music Day anthem composed by Olev Ehala.<\/p>\n<p><strong>ENSO General Manager, Kristjan Hallik<\/strong>: \u201cThe fact that ENSO performs compositions by P\u00e4rt and Tubin at the Parliament of Estonia on Music Day during the Year of Music shows that our country takes pride in the achievements of its classical music scene. Music by P\u00e4rt and other Estonian composers as well as our performers\u2019 international activities are our business card to the world\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>On the evening of 1 October, ENSO performs at 7:00 pm in Estonia Concert Hall as part of a festive concert programme dedicated to International Music Day and including an award ceremony organised by the Estonian Music Council and the Endowment for Music of the Estonia Cultural Endowment.<\/p>\n<p>ENSO is pleased to perform on Music Day under the baton of its former long-standing principal conductor, <strong>Arvo Volme<\/strong><strong>r<\/strong>, whose successful collaboration with the orchestra extends over 30 years and includes numerous international tours, recording sessions and the recent highly acclaimed performances of Tobias\u2019 oratorio \u201cJonah\u2019s Mission\u201d in Tartu and Tallinn.<\/p>\n<p>The Music Day concert programme is staged by<strong> Veiko Tubin<\/strong> and is broadcast live by both Estonian Television and Klassikaraadio.<\/p>\n<p>ENSO wishes everyone a wonderful International Music Day!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On the morning of 1 October (International Music Day), the Estonian National Symphony Orchestra greets Parliament on Toompea.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3004,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[88],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4968","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-reviews"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/erso.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4968","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/erso.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/erso.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erso.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erso.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4968"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/erso.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4968\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5418,"href":"https:\/\/erso.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4968\/revisions\/5418"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erso.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3004"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/erso.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4968"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erso.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4968"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erso.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4968"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}