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“Klaipeda music spring: the time have came!”

XXXIV festival „Klaipeda music spring“
24th of May, 2009 – 29th of April, 2009
Festival programme

It’s time to turn back to eternal worth of musical culture, which provides the strength of mind. Thus, the music lovers are invited to „Klaipeda Music Spring“– the longest music festival in Lithuania – for the 34th time. Klaipeda Concert Hall organizes the festival since 2005. Nine expressive and magnificent, impressive and colourful, melodious and passionate events of the festival will donate you the power of the awakening spring and the sally of classics. The time has came!

“Hope Awakens with the Sounds of Spring”

The concert, which is taking place on the 24th of March, will announce the beginning of the festival “Klaipeda Music Spring”. The spring gives back the hope, expands with colours and vitality, bewitches with fresh air.
Egidijus Mikšys, the director of Lithuanian Chamber Orchestra, says that the orchestra is living up the period of exalted creation, which is concerned to the change of the artistic director – Sergej Krylov.
The most gripping thing is the fact that the orchestra and two outstanding Lithuanian pianists will perform together in the opening concert. One of the pianists is living in the jazz-world and the other one – in the world of classics. Both, Gintautas Abarius and Povilas Stravinskas, are extremely high-spirited, magic and catching with delicate sense of music while performing the interpretation. It’s realy gripping to watch how these two pianists interpret the concerto for two pianos and orchestra Es-dur of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.
More in the programme – the music of Giacomo Puccini and Dmitri Shostakovich. The orchestra will be conducted by a temperamental georgian conductor Georgy Tchichinadze. As E. Mikšys said, ”He is one of these people, who doesn’t see the real world – he is all in the music...”

“Congratulations of Capitals for the Seashore”

The yesteryear European Capital of Culture Stavanger (Norway) and this year European Capital of Culture Vilnius will congratulate the seashore with the music on the 5th of April. Both, the ensemble “Stavanger Brass Band” and the choir “Young music” are full of ambitious ideas and aims. The performances of Norwegian orchestra, which is playing various pieces of music from renegade, modern academic and popular music to jazz, always stand out with innovative tendencies of orchestral playing. By the way, “Stavanger Brass Band” was taking place in International Klaipeda Jazz festival in 2001. Vilnius Municipal Choir “Young Music” represents the choral art of our country and once has won even the Grand Prix Europeo.

“Glass Harp: Bewitching Sounds”

What kind of emotion does a glass harp evoke, when it is listened to for the first time? What revolution is experienced by the ear, which attempts to find associations with those tones? What we try to capture, wanders somewhere at the verge of our ideas of angelic music, a mythical world, and instruments which sound only in our dreams.
“The Glass Duo” was found by Anna and Arkadiusz Szafraniec. They are the glass music group from Poland, who are playing the biggest glass harp in the world, the range of which is nearly five octaves.
The performance of this rare instrument together with Klaipeda Chamber Orchestra, conducted by Tomas Ambrozaitis, will fascinate the audience by the beauty of fresh melodies and will enrich our mind with delicate and unique sounds on the 16th of April.

“In a Swirl of the Most Beautiful Arias and Tango”

You will be bewitched by the beauty of the perfect harmony of sounds of this concert. An extraordinary prima donna of Lithuanian opera Irena Milkevičiūtė and popular, talented and the owner of beautiful voice Edmundas Seilius will perform in the concert. The Lithuanian State Symphony Orchestra will amaze the audience with the harmony of performance and the precision conductor Maestro Gintaras Rinkevičius will attract by the attentiveness to every detail.
There will sound famous and popular arias of operas of Giuseppe Verdi, Giacomo Puccini, Pyotr Tchaikovsky, Gaetano Donizzeti and duos in the 1st part of the concert, on 18th of April. The 2nd part of the concert will involve the audience in a swirl of passionate tango.

„High Mass for the Glory of St. Cecily“

As a tradition, this year “Klaipeda Music Spring” will take place during the period of Easter, on 19th of April. Klaipedians will have an opportunity to have a listen to High Mass for the Glory of St. Cecily, the patroness of music and musicians (free entrance). It was created by Frenchman Charles Gounod. The work claims him to be the church music composer. The soloists Asta Krikščiūnaitė, Rafailas Karpis, Giedrius Prunskus and Klaipeda choir „Aukuras“ will be accompanied by magnificent sounds of the organ (Jurgita Kazakevičiūtė). The concert will be conducted by Alfonsas Vildžiūnas.

“You Can Always Hear the Music”

Klaipeda Chamber Orchestra will perform together with Mike Svoboda (Germany) on 24th of April. Some Klaipedians probably can remember an impressive performances of Mike Svoboda in festivals „Kopa“ (1995) and „Permainų muzika“ (“Music of Changes”, 2007). Svoboda performs together with the most famous European orchestras as a soloist in the festivals. He performs as a trombonist and as a composer in the festivals as well. He also plays in various jazz ensembles, various genres of music - jazz, classics and modern music, satire and comedy are used in the bulk of his projects.
Famous and well-known melodies of Mozart and Rossini will be enriched by ”spicy” melodies in M. Svoboda’s work ”ALIAS. Mozart ist Rossini”. It’s merry and spectacular work. It’s the mission of the author - ”Once you have started it – you won’t stop it. You Can Always Hear the Music.”
The concert will be full of humour and dramas. An actor of Klaipeda Drama Theatre Darius Meškauskas, percusionist Saulius Astrauskas and conductor Vytautas Lukočius will performe in the concert. Vytautas Lukočius will also play a piano.

”Piazzolla: The Never-ending Passion”

The never-ending passion for Piazzolla has caught both: the founder of “Camerata Klaipeda” Vilhelmas Čepinskis, who is a violinist, and the young performers from Croatia. We will have an opportunity to have a listen to quite rare in our country instrument, which presents a very specific Argentine character of music – bandoneon. An untypical combination of a bandoneon (Miran Vaupotić), a guitar (Frane Verbanac) and strings undoubtedly will be colourful and interesting.
The audience and the critics have noticed that “Camerata Klaipeda” is playing with such a power and flight, with nostalgia, pain and passion, with a sally of freedom ... This is so essential interpreting the works of A. Piazzolla.
The festival will end on 29th of April, but the delicate communication with the audience and the energy, spread by such an amazing performers, will be remembered for a long time. The magnificent sounds of classics will leave bright impressions and positive emotions in our souls and minds.

Interesting meetings in the videoclubs

Two outstanding Russian artists – ballet-master Sergej Diagilev and composer Igor Stravinski – have gained an appreciation in the 2nd decade of the 20th century in Paris. They shocked and amazed the society of these days and they do an important influence nowadays.
The fragments from I. Stravinskis ballets “Firebird” and “Holy Spring”, presented in Lithuanian National Opera and Ballet Theatre, will be commented during the videoclub “Diagilev – Stravinski: Amazed and Shocked by Ballet” on 8th of April. The guest of the videoclub will be musicologist Eglė Ulienė.
Untraditional videoclub “The Inspirational Art of Trombone” will attract the audience with the ingenuity and mastery of Mike Svoboda’s playing trombone and other related instruments on 22nd of April. More than that, we will see and hear the performer playing a hose or a shell. We’ll see an extracts of his concert programme “Alphorn Therapy“ and performance in the festival of modern music „Kopa“ in 1995.
All things that Svoboda does, is so simple and so genial at the same time!

Have a pleasant spring-like mood and see you in Klaipeda Concert Hall!

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