Enoch Turner Schoolhouse
Sunday 5th of April, 2009
2 – 5 pm
There will be displays/exhibits of Harri’s life and work
The Program: Celebrating Harri’s life in 3 Scenes:
Scene One: ( at 2.15 p.m.)
“ Harri – the Estonian”.
Scene Two: ( at 3.15 p.m.)
“ Harri – the teacher ”.
Scene Three: ( at 4.15 p.m.)
“ Harri – the fun loving friend.”
We will conclude at around 5 p.m. with some closing songs.
I am sorry to miss the program.
ReplyDeleteI first met Harri in the summer of 1985 at a FUSAC conference and we were both finishing our PhD's. We met up once year after that for a decade and kept in email touch even longer; I remember one interesting incident with Harri. We both happened to be in Tallinn at the same time the summer of 1988. I had to collect a manuscript from Ingrid Rüütel, the well-known ethnomusicologist and wife of Arnold Rüütel -- then Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the Estonian SSR. Her manuscript was not ready so she came later to meet me at a cafe where I planned to meet up with Harri. By the time she got there, there were a number of dissidents with Harri, and we accidentally reacquainted opponents who might otherwise avoid one another: subversives wanting more freedom from the Soviets and a seemingly well-connected party apparatchik at a time when the Soviets were still in control of Estonia.
Joel Nevis