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  A London-based classical music review website has, for the second year running, named Arvo Pärt the year's most-performed living composer. Bachtrack.com put the 77-year-old Estonian in 54th place overall in its "Concert and Opera League Tables 2012," a list created from a sampling of 12,597 concerts and 4,451 opera performances. ...

  At its 60th Anniversary Gala in September 2012, The Estonian American National Council (EANC) announced that it would distribute a portion of the Gala proceeds to the Long Island Estonian Children’s Summer Camp and the Estonian American Girl Guides and Boy Scouts. On December 15 at the “Järvemetsa” Christmas...

  Have you considered popping some suir as part of a healthier New Year's regime? Or tried sõir as an appetizer (eel/roog)? They're both made for consumption with great care and love. When I first typed sõir into my internet search engine (otsingu/mootor), the only hits I got were for...

  Wrapping up the old year well might be more important to Estonians than a spectacular start to the new. Depending of course on how superstitious you are. Why else do Estonians wish each other "Head vana-aasta lõppu" – "Happy end of the old year", up until the clock has...

  Juba tosin aastaid olen iga nädal kirjutanud Taanist üle Suure Lombi mitmesuguseid juhtkirju, mille kaudu olen püüdnud edastada oma muljeid, tähelepanekuid ja katseid eriti Eesti arengu analüüsiks. Osa neist umbes 600 artiklist on ühepäevaliblikad, lähtudes mõnest aktuaalsest sündmusest. Teised sisaldavad katseid vaadelda Eesti ajalugu laiemas kontekstis, leida mineviku kogemustest...

   (Washington, DC) -  The Joint Baltic American National Committee, Inc. (JBANC), representing the Estonian, Latvian, and Lithuanian communities in the United States, enthusiastically applauds the passage of the Magnitsky Act in the U.S. Congress, and the signing of the Act into law by President Barack Obama on Dec. 14....

Opening the November-December 2012 Concert Series Seattle’s classical music lovers filled the Benaroya Symphony Hall to its capacity to hear Neeme Järvi conduct Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky’s Violin Concerto with Arabella Steinbacher, violinist.  After Järvi’s first performance, Seattle Classical Music Critic, Philippa Kiraly, writing for the Seattle Times newspaper, summed up...

  The Estonian American National Council has just published its first newsletter, containing news about its activities and about events, people and issues of interest to Estonian Americans. EANC plans to publish the free “EANC Newsletter” four times a year. In order to keep costs down, EANC will send as...

  VES #44, November 1, 2012   Logically, there is something askew in the newly published University of Tartu doctoral thesis by Tõnu Esko, et al.  The study not only claims that we are closer to Latvians and Russians, genetically, than to Finns, but reflective of foreign rule in Estonia...

  Dr. Ekaterina (Tina) Khmelnitskaya, Curator of Russian Porcelain from Russia’s world famous State Hermitage Museum, was a Fulbright Scholar at Stanford last spring.    She is doing research about artists who worked in the Imperial porcelain factory in the early 20th century, but left in 1917.  The main sculptor...