Program from the Finland Pavilion

The NYPR Archive Collections | Jan 1, 2000

The Finnish Pavilion is dedicated at the Court of Peace at the 1939 World's Fair in New York City on Midsummer Day, a Finnish National holiday. Erroll K Jert presides over the ceremony at which ambassador Hjalmar Procopé speaks and the music of Jean Sibelius and other Finnish composers is performed.


Audio courtesy of the NYC Municipal Archives WNYC Collection


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