Choral Music Festivals

We stopped on the way back to the cruise ship at a location where people flock with their blankets to sit in a grass bowl to listen to music. Interesting enough, but we have things like that in Chicago. At first look, the stage area looked a bit large but otherwise just a nice clean white sound baffle.

But the scale fools you. Look closer. Closer than that. Blow up the photo. That is a just grandstand, almost big enough for a football game. When filled with choirs, that stage will draw in gigantic audiences for all-day songfests. We have nothing like that in Chicago!

One man watches every concert and watches the empty stage on other days. A favored Estonian composer who worked with the concerts here has been memorialized with a huge statue on the hillside, where he listens to the music . . . or the silence . . . every day.

A wonderful visit, Tallinn. Just one word about the next post: Russia.