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Ernest Paananen
Ernest Paananen (December 26, 1879 – January 12, 1951) was a Finnish American violinist, singer, and songwriter. Paananen was born in Pihtipudas, and was married to the American musician Fanny Bay. His daughter, the actress and dancer Tuulikki Paananen, starred in several films. The family moved to the US in 1919. Paananen was mostly active as a violinist in Ohio, where he was a member of the Cleveland Orchestra for ten years. As a singer and violinist, Paananen made 17 recordings with Antti Kosola Andrew "Antti" William Kosola (March 4, 1896 — April 14, 1971) was a Finnish American accordionist, pianist, bandleader and composer. Born in Wisconsin, Kosola was in the 1920s and 1930s a very well-known musician on the Finnish American stage ...'s orchestra in New York City between 1929 and 1930. His most notable record was ''Muistatko vielä illan sen'', for which he wrote the lyrics. He died in New York City. References People from Pihtipudas Finnish emigrants to t ...
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Pihtipudas
Pihtipudas is a municipality of Finland. It is located in northern Central Finland along the highway 4 ( E75), about north of Jyväskylä. The municipality has a population of () and covers an area of of which is water. There are all together 140 lakes in Pihtipudas. Biggest lakes are Alvajärvi, Muurasjärvi and Saanijärvi. The population density is . The municipality is unilingually Finnish. Pihtipudas is known for the annual javelin carnival and Lauri "Tahko" Pihkala, the father of Finnish baseball. Putaanportti area offers plenty of services for travelers. Fish Art is a sales exhibition of taxidermic (mounted fish) – unique in Finland. Close to the service station there are shops – in a way factory outlets – specialized in sweets, leather bags and pottery products. Other tourist services are found in the central village and lakeside areas. History Pihtipudas was first mentioned in 1552 as ''Pictipudhas'', when it was a part of the large Rautalampi parish. A ...
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Ohio
Ohio () is a U.S. state, state in the Midwestern United States, Midwestern region of the United States. Of the List of states and territories of the United States, fifty U.S. states, it is the List of U.S. states and territories by area, 34th-largest by area, and with a population of nearly 11.8 million, is the List of U.S. states and territories by population, seventh-most populous and List of U.S. states and territories by population density, tenth-most densely populated. The state's capital and List of cities in Ohio, largest city is Columbus, Ohio, Columbus, with the Columbus metropolitan area, Ohio, Columbus metro area, Cincinnati metropolitan area, Greater Cincinnati, and Greater Cleveland being the List of metropolitan statistical areas, largest metropolitan areas. Ohio is bordered by Lake Erie to the north, Pennsylvania to the east, West Virginia to the southeast, Kentucky to the southwest, Indiana to the west, and Michigan to the northwest. Ohio is historically known as ...
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Finnish Male Songwriters
Finnish may refer to: * Something or someone from, or related to Finland * Culture of Finland * Finnish people or Finns, the primary ethnic group in Finland * Finnish language, the national language of the Finnish people * Finnish cuisine See also * Finish (other) * Finland (other) * Suomi (other) Suomi means ''Finland'' in Finnish. It may also refer to: *Finnish language * Suomi (surname) * Suomi, Minnesota, an unincorporated community * Suomi College, in Hancock, Michigan, now referred to as Finlandia University * Suomi Island, Western ... * {{disambiguation Language and nationality disambiguation pages ...
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Finnish Emigrants To The United States
Finnish may refer to: * Something or someone from, or related to Finland * Culture of Finland * Finnish people or Finns, the primary ethnic group in Finland * Finnish language, the national language of the Finnish people * Finnish cuisine See also * Finish (other) * Finland (other) * Suomi (other) Suomi means ''Finland'' in Finnish. It may also refer to: *Finnish language * Suomi (surname) * Suomi, Minnesota, an unincorporated community * Suomi College, in Hancock, Michigan, now referred to as Finlandia University * Suomi Island, Western ... * {{disambiguation Language and nationality disambiguation pages ...
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People From Pihtipudas
A person ( : people) is a being that has certain capacities or attributes such as reason, morality, consciousness or self-consciousness, and being a part of a culturally established form of social relations such as kinship, ownership of property, or legal responsibility. The defining features of personhood and, consequently, what makes a person count as a person, differ widely among cultures and contexts. In addition to the question of personhood, of what makes a being count as a person to begin with, there are further questions about personal identity and self: both about what makes any particular person that particular person instead of another, and about what makes a person at one time the same person as they were or will be at another time despite any intervening changes. The plural form "people" is often used to refer to an entire nation or ethnic group (as in "a people"), and this was the original meaning of the word; it subsequently acquired its use as a plural form of p ...
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Antti Kosola
Andrew "Antti" William Kosola (March 4, 1896 — April 14, 1971) was a Finnish American accordionist, pianist, bandleader and composer. Born in Wisconsin, Kosola was in the 1920s and 1930s a very well-known musician on the Finnish American stages in New York City. He had his most successful years between 1926 and 1938, when he recorded about 50 pieces for Columbia Records and Victor Talking Machine Company. Some recordings were made with his orchestra and with several notable Finnish American singers, for example Leo Kauppi, Hiski Salomaa, Hannes Saari, Ernest Paananen and others. He also performed together with the famous Finnish American musicians Viola Turpeinen, Sylvia Polso and William Syrjälä. He also made recording sessions with Matti Jurva, Tatu Pekkarinen and Heikki Tuominen Heikki is a Finnish and Estonian male given name. It derives from a medieval vernacular form of the name Henrik. Notable people with the name include: *Heikki Aho (footballer) (born 1983), ...
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Cleveland Orchestra
The Cleveland Orchestra, based in Cleveland, is one of the five American orchestras informally referred to as the " Big Five". Founded in 1918 by the pianist and impresario Adella Prentiss Hughes, the orchestra plays most of its concerts at Severance Hall. As of 2021, the incumbent music director is Franz Welser-Möst. In October 2020 ''The New York Times'' called it "America's finest rchestra still", and in 2012 '' Gramophone Magazine'' ranked the Cleveland Orchestra number 7 on its list of the world's greatest orchestras. History Founding and early history (1918–1945) The Cleveland Orchestra was founded in 1918 by music-aficionado Adella Prentiss Hughes, businessman John L. Severance, Father John Powers, music critic Archie Bell, and Russian-American violinist and conductor Nikolai Sokoloff, who would become the Orchestra’s first music director. A former pianist, Hughes served as a local music promoter and sponsored a series of “Symphony Orchestra Concerts” designe ...
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Newspapers
A newspaper is a periodical publication containing written information about current events and is often typed in black ink with a white or gray background. Newspapers can cover a wide variety of fields such as politics, business, sports and art, and often include materials such as opinion columns, weather forecasts, reviews of local services, obituaries, birth notices, crosswords, editorial cartoons, comic strips, and advice columns. Most newspapers are businesses, and they pay their expenses with a mixture of subscription revenue, newsstand sales, and advertising revenue. The journalism organizations that publish newspapers are themselves often metonymically called newspapers. Newspapers have traditionally been published in print (usually on cheap, low-grade paper called newsprint). However, today most newspapers are also published on websites as online newspapers, and some have even abandoned their print versions entirely. Newspapers developed in the 17 ...
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New York (state)
New York, officially the State of New York, is a state in the Northeastern United States. It is often called New York State to distinguish it from its largest city, New York City. With a total area of , New York is the 27th-largest U.S. state by area. With 20.2 million people, it is the fourth-most-populous state in the United States as of 2021, with approximately 44% living in New York City, including 25% of the state's population within Brooklyn and Queens, and another 15% on the remainder of Long Island, the most populous island in the United States. The state is bordered by New Jersey and Pennsylvania to the south, and Connecticut, Massachusetts, and Vermont to the east; it has a maritime border with Rhode Island, east of Long Island, as well as an international border with the Canadian provinces of Quebec to the north and Ontario to the northwest. New York City (NYC) is the most populous city in the United States, and around two-thirds of the state's populat ...
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Tuulikki Paananen
Tuulikki may refer to *Tuulikki (name), a Finnish female given name *Tuulikki (spirit), a forest goddess or spirit in Eastern Finnish mythology *2716 Tuulikki __NOTOC__ Year 716 ( DCCXVI) was a leap year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. The denomination 716 for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar er ...
, a minor planet discovered by Y. Väisälä *Tuulikki Mons, a mountain on Venus *Tuulikki–Vampula, a minor airport in Vampula, Finland {{disambig ...
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