Republic of Estonia 103. Musical greeting from the national university to Estonia

To mark the 103rd anniversary of the Republic of Estonia, you can hear the musical greeting of the national university to its country: Evald Aav’s “Me oleme Põhjamaa lapsed” (“(We Are) Children of the North”) to Anna Haava’s text performed by the Academic Women’s Choir of the University of Tartu and Tartu Academic Male Choir. Conductor Triin Koch.

Drone photos by Ragnar Vutt.

The recording is from the ceremony marking the 100th anniversary of Estonia’s national university on 1 December 2019.

Find more to watch and listen: 

• Rector Toomas Asser: I am grateful to all university people who over the last year have been pillars of the Estonian state and nation
• Reflection “Thoughts of a divided intelligentsia” by David Ilmar Lepasaar Beecher, expatriate Estonian visiting professor of the University of Tartu