{"id":5050,"date":"2020-05-08T09:27:02","date_gmt":"2020-05-08T07:27:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/erso.ee\/maaratlemata-en\/estonian-symphonics-to-remember-composer-lepo-sumera-with-a-free-virtual-concert\/"},"modified":"2022-08-22T07:19:14","modified_gmt":"2022-08-22T05:19:14","slug":"estonian-symphonics-to-remember-composer-lepo-sumera-with-a-free-virtual-concert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/erso.ee\/en\/2020\/05\/estonian-symphonics-to-remember-composer-lepo-sumera-with-a-free-virtual-concert\/","title":{"rendered":"Estonian symphonics to remember composer Lepo Sumera with a free virtual concert"},"content":{"rendered":"

To remember the Estonian composer Lepo Sumera (1950 \u2013 2000) on the 70th anniversary of his birth, on 8 May, the Estonian National Symphony Orchestra soloists and pianist Kadri-Ann Sumera will perform his compositions at the Estonia Concert Hall; the concert will be streamed for free online.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cOn 8 May, the stage, auditorium, balconies, and hallways of the Estonia Concert Hall will be filled with music by Lepo Sumera,\u201d the orchestra said in a statement, adding the day would have been the 70th\u00a0birthday of the composer. \u201cThis day will be celebrated with live chamber music, performed by the Estonian National Symphony Orchestra\u2019s soloists and pianist Kadri-Ann Sumera. To give the audience a virtual image of the Estonia Concert Hall, musicians will perform in different areas of the building,\u201d the orchestra said in a statement.<\/p>\n

The orchestra originally premiered four of the six symphonies by Lepo Sumera: the first conducted by Vitali Katayev (1981), the second by Peeter Lilje (1984), the third by Paul M\u00e4gi (1988), and the sixth by Arvo Volmer (2000). The premiers of the fourth and fifth symphonies were performed, respectively, by Badische Staatskapelle and Eri Klas in Karlsruhe (1994), and by the Malm\u00f6 Symphony Orchestra and Paavo J\u00e4rvi in Malm\u00f6 (1997); both symphonies have also been performed by ERSO.<\/p>\n

A charismatic character<\/h3>\n

The Estonian National Symphony Orchestra said Sumera (8 May 1950 \u2013 2 June 2000) was \u201ca charismatic character\u201d; \u201cthe main axis of his rich creation\u201d was the symphony orchestra and the pillars of his creation were his six symphonies.<\/p>\n

\u201cAn orchestra can epitomise grand ideas and broad arches, the colours of an orchestra can portray worlds outside of music and make the audience forget that they are listening to an orchestra or even simply music,\u201d Kadri-Ann Sumera, Lepo\u2019s daughter, added in a statement, describing his father\u2019s love for orchestras.<\/p>\n

Lepo Sumera also composed chamber, vocal, theatre and film music. He taught classic composition in the Estonian Academy of Music. From 1990\u20131992, he was the country\u2019s culture minister, and from 1993\u20132000, the chairman of the Estonian Composers\u2019 Union. Sumera died of a heart attack at the age of just 50.<\/p>\n

The broadcast of the concert, at 7 PM\u00a0EEST (5:00 PM BST\/12:00 PM EDT), is free of charge, but the orchestra said donations were \u201cgreatly appreciated\u201d (receiver account number\/IBAN:\u00a0EE932200221023778606; BIC\/SWIFT: HABAEE2X; Reference number:\u00a03500081681; please add: \u201cToetus ERSO-le\u201d). The concert will remain online after the performance.<\/p>\n

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To remember the Estonian composer Lepo Sumera (1950 \u2013 2000) on the 70th anniversary of his birth, on 8 May, the Estonian National Symphony Orchestra soloists and pianist Kadri-Ann Sumera will perform his compositions at the Estonia Concert Hall; the concert will be streamed for free online.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5051,"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-5050","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\/5050","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=5050"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/erso.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5050\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5364,"href":"https:\/\/erso.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5050\/revisions\/5364"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erso.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5051"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/erso.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5050"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erso.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5050"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erso.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5050"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}