Concerts
YL gives concerts regularly in Finland and abroad. The choir makes two short concert tours in Finland each year, and one or two tours yearly in the Asian, European or American continent. Recent years have seen YL tour in USA and Iceland (2005), China and Singapore (2006), Russia (2006), Japan (2007), Mexico (2008), Norway (2009), Belgium and USA (2010) and China and Mexico (2011). The concert tour in USA had a grand finale in Carnegie Hall with Osmo Vänskä and the Minnesota Orchestra. Around 12 000 listeners attend YL's Christmas concerts in the churches of Helsinki each year, and thousands to hear the traditional songs celebrating First of May.
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“If you love music, hear it; go to operas, concerts and pay fiddlers to play to you; but I insist on your neither piping nor fiddling yourself. It puts a gentleman in a very frivolous, contemptible light.... Few things would mortify me more than to see you bearing a part in a concert, with a fiddle under your chin, or a pipe in your mouth.”
—Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl Chesterfield (1694–1773)
“The concerts you enjoy together
Neighbors you annoy together
Children you destroy together
That make marriage a joy”
—Stephen Sondheim (b. 1930)