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Oregan Town (Seeks Title As«Musical Center lBy IMXiER JOHNSON HOOD RIVER, Ore., April 15 j , (UP) This Alpine community, already bountifully endowed with scenery and apples, Thursday as- | pi red t obecome the classical mu- I sic mecca of America.Hood River wants to be an is- , land of Beethoven in a land lt;f, juke boxes the Salzburg of the United States. (The campaign will get under way next August 5-8 when the j lusty Hood River Music Associa-Vtion will sponsor its first musical j festival in conjunction with the Oregon territorial centennial celebration.Prime movers of this ambitious project is Boris Sirpo, an intense Finnish - American composer and violinist who, for good or ill, has led both Hood River’s elder and younger generations from Hoagy Carmichael to Wolfgant Mozart.Sirpo is widely known in Europe as a composer, conductor and violin teacher. He was conductor of the Viipurl Symphony Orchestra in Finland, and founded the Viipuri conservatory. Both the conservatory and his home were destroved in the first Russo-Fin-nish War, and soon afterward he eame t o A merica.Through a series of travel coincidences, and because he was entranced with Hood River’s ap, I* orchards in bloom and the view of Mount Hood’s towering peaks and glaciers, he set up a small shop in Hood River. 50 miles east of Portland.
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Hobbs Daily Flare
Hobbs, New Mexico, US
Fri, Apr 16, 1948
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