Directions: Simply combine all ingredients in a highball glass over ice and stir gently. Garnish with a lemon wedge if desired. Is Finlandia Vodka Vegan?

Please get in touch with the Ten Pieces team if there are minor adjustments you would like to make for your ensemble. Notes from the arranger Set up as women-only communes, Femlandia is sold to the world as a safe place for women to thrive peacefully without the influence, control or fear of men. They are entirely self-sufficient and are cut off from the outside world, thus are not effected by the issues the wider that society is facing. Miranda Reynolds always thought she would rather die than live in Femlandia. But that was before the country sank into total economic collapse and her husband walked out in the harshest, most permanent way, leaving her and her sixteen-year-old daughter with nothing. The streets are full of looting, robbing, and killing, and Miranda and Emma no longer have much choice—either starve and risk getting murdered, or find safety. And so they set off to Femlandia, the women-only colony Miranda’s mother, Win Somers, established decades ago. Hepokoski, James (2004). " Finlandia awakens." In Daniel M. Grimley, ed., The Cambridge Companion to Sibelius (Cambridge University Press), pp.81–94. Probably inspired by a view over the area of Aulanko, Finlandia feels imbued with a sense of stately purpose, accumulating a feeling of giddy energy from the strident, almost martial brass fanfare and rolling timpani that open the piece. An ominous feeling dominates this early section, representing the years of occupation and oppression that had dogged Finland’s past, but this gives way to a stirring choral section that has a semi-sacred feel. Here, Sibelius intended to create a sense of a Finnish tonality without resorting to drawing from native folk music, as he wrote to his wife Aino at the time: “I would not wish to tell a lie in art... But I think I am now on the right path. I now grasp those Finnish, purely Finnish tendencies in music less realistically but more truthfully than before.” Known as the “Finlandia Hymn”, this choral section was later published as a separate piece with a collection of Masonic ritual music in 1927.Femlandia has some dark secrets that concern Miranda from the moment the lay eyes on the compound. The walls keeping people out, or in. The way they refer to each other, but she cant deny that most people seem happy enough and they are definitely better off than those in the outside world right now. Provocative, sinister, and fascinating' Stephanie Wrobel, Sunday Times bestselling author of The Recovery of Rose Gold FINLANDIA was first used as a hymn tune in the Scottish Church Hymnary (1927) and the Presbyterian Hymnal (1933). The melody features several repeated and varied melody lines. It is clearly an instrumental tune, but with diligent leadership by organists, congregations can sing the various cadential tones to their proper length. Because of the long lines, accompanists must work to keep the tempo moving. The tune is a glorious setting for harmony singing by choirs. This tune is also often set to the hymn text of Katharina Von Schlegel, "Stille, mein Wille, dein Jesus hilft siegen" ("Be Still, My Soul, The Lord Is On Thy Side")

In the near future society is on the verge of collapse. A mother & her daughter are on a long walk across a country that is now dangerous & foreboding. They hope to reach a safe haven for women, but there are challanges just to survive before they get there. I love Dystopian fiction and thrillers. Vox and Q are two of my favourite books so I was excited to start a new book by this author. One of the more famous renditions of this hymn is "This is My Song," also known as "A Song of Peace," with lyrics written in 1934byLloyd Stone.It often appears in hymnals with substituted and additional verses byGeorgia Harkness(1891–1974). It is sometimes called "A Song of Peace," taken from the second line of the song. And the key to all of it is in the author's note. The author tells us that she didn't like how some people reacted to her book VOX. And that's fair. As a writer myself, I can understand being annoyed by people misinterpreting your work or using it for a purpose you didn't intend. If you already read the author’s Vox and Master Class , you may be prepared what kind of biggest bomb she will throw in your lap but knowing doesn’t mean how to dismantle it! The things you’ll read still shake you to the core!

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In the autumn of 1899 Sibelius composed the music for a series of tableaux illustrating episodes in Finland´s past. The tableaux were presented as a part of the Press Celebrations held in November that year. The celebrations were a contribution towards the resistance to the efforts to increase Russian influence in the then autonomous Grand Duchy of Finland. The music culminated in a stirring, patriotic finale, “Finland awakes”. Miranda did not want to move to Femlandia, but the country where she was living was collapsing and danger was all around her. So, she and her daughter, Emma, had no choice but to move to a colony of only women, that Miranda’s mother, Win, founded years before. At first, it almost seems utopian, but then something is off. Men are not allowed, but babies are born; only girl babies. Miranda becomes more and more disturbed by what is happening, and nothing is as it seems.