Site of the Finnish poet, Leevi Lehto 2015-03-25T09:42:56Z http://leevilehto.net/?feed=atom WordPress admin http://leevilehto.net/?p=430 2015-03-25T09:42:56Z 2015-03-25T09:42:56Z

My speech on receiving the Eino Leino Prize, March 24, 2015, Laulumiehet, Helsinki.

]]> 0 admin http://leevilehto.net/?p=427 2012-10-09T07:43:56Z 2012-10-09T07:43:03Z

Two recent pieces on Ulysses by Joyce (and me): “‘Mutta kuka oli Gerty?’” (“‘But who was Gerty?'” On the theme of “who’s talking” in Episode 13 — and the function of stylistic variation in Ulysses in general, published in the Finnish philosophical magazine, niin&näin, 3/2012); “Ulysses ja haamut” (“Ulysses and Ghosts”, my lecture in a meeting of Finnish Translators’ and Interpretators’ Union (literary translators’ section), Oct 8, 2012, Helsinki). Both are in Finnish.

]]> 1 admin http://leevilehto.net/?p=423 2011-12-14T16:27:50Z 2011-12-14T16:25:50Z

Salla Hakkola (folkharp), Tero Valkonen (floor tom), and me (voice) performed three poems by the Finnish Modernist master, Eeva-Liisa Manner (1921–1995) in a matinée dedicated to her 90th birthday: “Kirjoituskone” (Typewriter, 1966; with introductions by Tuula Hökkä and me), “Virsi hirsipuusta” (A Psalm From the Gallows, 1956), and “Kävely” (A Walk, 1966).

]]> 0 admin http://leevilehto.net/?p=422 2011-12-07T16:42:35Z 2011-12-07T16:42:22Z

“Ananke. Pantun” by Hasso Krull; “Soome kommunistid Ida-Karjalas” (by Elo Viiding).

]]> 0 admin http://leevilehto.net/?p=398 2011-02-21T18:05:11Z 2011-02-21T18:05:11Z

Two and a half hours of my birthday “concert” stream recorded here and here. Will itemize the previous one with start and end times for all the individual pieces soon. Thanks to everyone involved and the fabulous audience (who, hopefully, got involved as well).

]]> 1 admin http://leevilehto.net/?p=395 2011-01-29T10:03:45Z 2011-01-29T09:58:44Z

Please feel welcome to my 60th birthday-cum-concert, Feb. 20, 2011, 6 to 11 PM, Kulttuuriareena GLORIA, Helsinki (plus online web cast) – with collaborations with Tero Valkonen, drums, Salla Hakkola, folk harp, Saara Lehto, dance. Read more: English, Finnish.

]]> 1 admin http://leevilehto.net/?p=392 2010-12-19T10:35:51Z 2010-12-19T10:35:51Z

My speech in “Jesus versus Jesus”, a conversation between writers Antti Nylén and Janne Kortteinen, with Marko Gylén and me as moderators, Wed., Dec. 15, 2010, in Lasipalatsi, Helsinki.

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My rejected editorial for the Kritiikkiportti.fi portal for literary criticism.

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Text and audio for my lecture in the Annual Seminar of the Finnish Literary Research Society, June 10, 2010

]]> 0 admin http://leevilehto.net/?p=384 2010-03-05T07:06:37Z 2010-03-05T06:34:05Z

Some preliminary results of my recent forays onto the border-area between “poetry” and “music”: 1) a demo of my “singing”  (mp3, 2:30) (of four stanzas of) that beloved classic of traditional Finnish poetry, “Lapin kesä” (The Summer of Lapland, from Kangastuksia, 1902; for the lyrics, in Finnish and in English transl., click here) by Eino Leino, over Chuck Berry’s orig. recording of “Rock and Roll Music”; 2) a well-known poem by the late Finnish Modernist master, Paavo Haavikko, “Kukaan ei ymmärrä minua (tässä ravintolassa)” [No One Understands Me (In This Restaurant), from Viiniä, kirjoitusta, Otava 1976] performed by me (mp3, 3:35) against the 1966 Rolling Stones classic, “Paint It, Black” in my on arrangement ; 3) my sonnet, “Vedekieltä, kai” from Ääninen (Like 1997), read as accompaniment, so to say, to a small musical composition of my own (mp3, 1:21). I welcome you to listen and to be horrified – I for my part continue to be fascinated with “doing things I cannot do”, as well as with a larger perspective of “putting music into language” (instead of other way round).

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