It’s been fifty years since the death of Finnish composer Jean Sibelius, but in a music industry obsessed with celebrating anniversaries, Norman Lebrecht says that you’d think no one had ever heard of Sibelius. “His jubilee year might have afforded a chance for universal reassessment, but the orchestral industry flunked it, fearing that long lines of symphonic development without an inherent narrative would deter an impatient, aging audience with a shortening attention span. Sibelius was declared off-message this year, his fall from grace complete.”