Tapiola sound (Erkki Pohjola) ML 269.8 T37 P6314 1993 Reviewed by Shawn Bennett

1. Tapiola Sound
By Erkki Pohjola

2. The Tapiola Children’s Choir, preparing to perform for an audience
of 55,000 at the “Scandinavia Today” Gala, Minneapolis, 1982

4. The little boy pictured
below playing the upright
viola is now a well-known
theatre musician

5. The Pohjola Family Tree

6. Various editions of Pohjola’s popular
method book series, Musica. They are
the bridge between Kodály, Orff, and
Pohjola himself

7. The Tapiola choir was actually one of the first children’s
choirs to mix boys and girls. Their ages spanned from 8-18

8. Pohjola, viola in hand, asks a member of the
choir what piece they should perform as an
encore

10. The Tapiola Children’s Choir in concert (1983),
performing a piece with string instruments – every child
in the choir is also a string player

11. “Aglepta,” by Arne Mellnäs, the piece with which
the Tapiola Choir won the Swedish Radio
competition, 1970
The “Joy of Singing” Festival in
Toronto, 1989

12. Tapiola, in old Finnish mythology, is the kingdom of the forest-god
Tapio. The Finnish people regard forests as, “benign, a sanctuary”

14. Tapiola Sound,
p. 101

16. Moscow, 1978

17. Erkki with his sons, Seppo, Olli,
and Matti, pictured above

19. The Tapiola Choir today, with director Kari
Ala-Pöllänen

20. Thank you!