Word: offing
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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One summer in the 1930s. being in Europe, I went up to Finland to see Dr. [Jean] Sibelius. He was most gracious and we had long conversations. As you probably know, he lives about 25 miles outside of Helsinki at a place called Jarvenpaa. which means "Lake's End." One...
The lake glittered under a westering sun and in the meadow close at hand peasants were reaping golden rye. In Finland the age of myth and legend is still just around the corner and doors stand open to the great winds which blow from the past out of the Kalevala...
Dr. Sibelius had put on his white suit and that broad brimmed, flat-crowned hat of tan felt which so often appears in his photographs. He was in high spirits and conversation was lively. It was about history, literature, music, philosophy, ethics, the demonic element in the creative process, and...
Then of a sudden he was speaking of Beethoven, and of a sudden I realized that he was speaking of that andante cantabile, the slow movement of the B-flat Trio [Opus 97]. He stopped speaking and began to sing. It was as though the composer, impatient of words, had...
How often since then, in these dreary war-years, I have thought of him at Jarvenpaa, burdened with his share of his nation's and the world's grief.