CANTORES MINORES, Finland's most noted boys' choir, founded by Pastor Tarmo Nuotio and Ruth-Esther Hillila in 1953.
There was an unusual interest in boys' choirs in Finland in the 1950s when visiting boys' choirs had revealed the difference in their tone quality and range as compared with the forced tone in the singing of Finnish children. Pastor Tarmo Nuotio, one of the individuals interested in this phenomenon, had gathered a group of twelve boys but had nowhere to turn for...