Funeral arrangements have been announced for the late Finnish conductor Leif Segerstam.
The service will be held in Helsinki on November 8 at the Meilahti church. Later that day, Finnish National Opera will stage a memorial performance.
Typically, and presumably by his wish, the announcement of his death has been cast as a polyglot pun:
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