When conductor Hannu Lintu raises his baton in front of the Orchester national de France on Thursday evening at the Auditorium of the Maison de la radio, live on France Musique, he will be the fifth Finn to conduct in Paris in a month.
Just after Esa-Pekka Salonen and Santtu-Matias Rouvali, seen at the Philharmonie between late January and early February.
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Not to mention those who are here permanently, since, out of the capital's three major symphony orchestras, two have a Finnish musical director: the Radio France Philharmonic Orchestra with Mikko Franck and the Paris Orchestra with Klaus Mäkelä.
How did we come to this omnipresence of drumsticks from the Far North in the landscape of conducting?
The oldest of this beautiful skewer, Esa-Pekka Salonen, 62, is not the first to have made a name for himself outside his country.
Let us not forget Paavo Berglund (1929-2012), the chef who held his wand in his left hand.
A robust man, with an almost Mongolian face, recalling one of the origins
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