Appreciation The Estonian song celebration (1 Viewer)

[maruberry]

The estonian song celebration is a huge event in Estonia... We have it every 5 years and this year it was it's 150th anniversary.

Choirs from all over Estonia, Estonian choirs from outside of Estonia and even a select few non-Estonian Choirs come to sing together in one huge choir. Just imagine it, singing together with over 32 000 people. Singing about your love for your country, about how beautiful it is and about being together.

60 000 people there to see it. The number would be larger, but they stopped selling tickets due to safety concerns! Hundreds of thousands of people watching it live online or on TV.

The energy you get is honestly electrifying! After the "official" songs had ended, the crowd kept on singing songs they liked. The orchestra started playing without a conductor and the choir followed with the songs!

There is nothing more beautiful in my opinion. The celebrations symbolises the life and the strenght of the Estonian people. We have had this celebration through our time under the Russian empire and the soviet union. The celebration is where a third of the country came together in 1988 to show the soviet union we want to be free.

The videos of the songs today haven't been uploaded online yet, so I will post some videos from the last one in 2014.

 

[maruberry]

Oh my gosh, the second video... I am speechless! TT Thanks again!

i'm glad you like it! It truly s a magical experence!

 

[maruberry]

Oh my gosh, the second video... I am speechless! TT Thanks again!

In case you are interested this is from this year's celebration! This song is more important to Estonians than even our hymn! (it actually almost became our hymn, but the composer himself said no)

The conductor is using the original stick the author, our songfather Gustav Ernesaks used to use when he was alive!

 

[maruberry]

Oh, my heart TT That was so beautiful... Many thanks c: I love how that the conductor really got into it, and the shots of people crying was so intense. And when it cut to the aerial view of the entire audience... Wow!

Also, the title of the video looks like Finnish to me. I heard the two languages are similar, but that's fascinating to me.

Also, why did the composer say no, do you know?

Estonian and Finnish are extremely similar, to the point that when an Estonian is listening to a Finnish conversation without paying attention to it, it'll sound like Estonian! Only when you try to understand what they are saying do you understand it isn't Estonian.

Also when did he say no... I can't quite understand what you mean with that.

 

[maruberry]

Oh wow, that's so cool! I had no idea.

Oh sorry, it was when you said that the 2019 song almost became your hymn, but the composer said no. I was wondering if you knew why c:

No idea actually.