Estonian culture in the world.
Learning the basics of the Estonian language is not considered easy for speakers of Indo-European languages, but a free, online course is offering an easy start and has already attracted thousands of sign-ups. Keeleklikk, which translates to “Language Click,” incorporates work by professional actors and writers, and uses animation and short film clips to make […]
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Otepää, Estonia. Winter is a busy time here for sports as competitors come to this usually sleepy town on Estonia’s southern tip. Sometimes, the scene is exactly what you would expect, like 8,500 bundled-up skiers sliding through town on a cross-country ski trek one weekend last month. Other times, though, you might see a different
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Andres Simonson, a first generation American of Estonian descent, gets you acquainted with the Estonian külmlaud or “cold table” buffet. As a first generation American of Estonian descent, I embrace all things Estonian. Well, almost everything. I still can’t do sült. For those unfamiliar, sült is an Estonian delicacy of jellied pork. You start by (and
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This article is in relation to the recent Estonian-French movie “An Estonian Lady in Paris”, directed by Ilmar Raag. The film tells the story of Anne (Laine Magi), a divorced 50 year-old woman who leaves a small Estonian town to care for an elderly woman in Paris, a free-spirited fellow Estonian who emigrated to France
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A London-based classical music review website has, for the second year running, named Arvo Pärt the year’s most-performed living composer. Bachtrack.com put the 77-year-old Estonian in 54th place overall in its “Concert and Opera League Tables 2012,” a list created from a sampling of 12,597 concerts and 4,451 opera performances. According to Bachtrack.com, the league
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Leen Rampe (née Võrno) and Siimon Rampe are a wife-husband team passionate about Estonian film. They have run monthly film sessions called KiNO! nights at the Sydney Estonian Cultural House for over a year now and finished 2012 off with an Estonian Film Festival in Australia. Leen has a Master’s degree in Scenography from the
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One of EW’s very first articles was a short, but poignant interview with a world famous composer and producer Brian Eno Brian Eno impressed by the performance of Estonian Broadcasting Corporation Girls’ Choir (Video) https://estonianworld.com/culture/brian-eno-impressed-by-the-performance-of-estonian-broadcasting-corporation-girls-choir/ Our very first person featured on the “Global Estonians” article series was a singer-songwriter Liis Hirvoja from London Global
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BBC Music Magazine and its official website Classical-music.com chose ECM’s 2012 CD of Arvo Pärt’s Adam’s Lament as its recording of the month for January 2013. The disc contains the Latvian Radio Choir, Sinfonietta Riga, the Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir, the Tallinn Chamber Orchestra and Vox Clamantis performing Adam’s Lament and also Beatus Petronius, Salve Regina, Statuit ei Dominus, Alleluia-Tropus, L’Abbé Agathon, Estonian
“Meil on aega veel” – “We still have time” by Estonian band Põhja Tallinn (North-Tallinn) was voted as “The song of the year 2012” by Estonia’s popular Radio 2 listeners. “We still have time” is the fourth single from the band’s debut album “Per Aspera Ad Astra”. A fascinating combination of rap and choirmusic, it
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Liisi Koikson is an Estonian singer and actress. She is a graduate of the highly acclaimed Georg Ots Tallinn Music School, has performed in several plays and the musicals “Evita“, “Aida“, “Miss Saigon“, “The Sound of Music“, “Jesus Christ Superstar“, “Grease“ and “Georg“. She also had a feature role in the motion picture “December Heat.” To
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