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   Helen Bond on January 15, 2022 at 10:47 am

   Intriguing if not great music. I wonder how Segerstam finds the time to compose so much music. Best not to go there. Have all his symphonies been played? And why no conductor?

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     canderson on January 15, 2022 at 12:03 pm

     Helen, I have heard one of Segerstam’s Symphonies – I forget the number! – when he was working with the London Schools Symphony Orchestra for a Barbican Hall concert (main work, Nielsen 4). I gather that some, maybe all, of these Symphonies are designed to be rehearsed with a conductor and then played without one; in London, as in Turku, Segerstam played the piano. As far as I know, all of Segerstam’s music is fully notated: I was told that when he was preparing the youngsters of the LSSO he said of his own piece, “All you have to do is play what you see”. Colin

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     Edward Clark on January 15, 2022 at 12:12 pm

     I have sat through a few of his overblown, incomprehensible symphonies,
     including Colin’s experience at the Barbican, all sounding the same to my ears.
     He dashes them off on airplane journeys apparently. But he refuses to play any concerts which do not include his own music. Hence no invite from the VPO!

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