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If the festival "Operetta in Kaunas Castle" were to be evaluated as a phenomenon, it is evident that it is a good occasion to popularise classical music for the wide public. On another hand, the festival is not a purely popular music event. It is rather a borderline festival: the manoeuvring between popular and serious culture is fashionable today; still, the masses rather than music gourmands are pleased in this way.
The summer season is suitable for organising various festivals; untraditional spaces, i.e., various manors, parks, museum courtyards or terraces are suitable for this purpose. The programme is often adjusted to open-air stages: classical music is combined with jazz; also, stage opuses, concert performances and projects prepared for festivals in particular are offered. Cosy atmosphere, beautiful environment and emotional music is frequently more important to listeners, who are not very big music gourmands.
Strive for things which seem impossible today and you will achieve what will appear real tomorrow: this is how the creative courage of participants of the young architects plein-air, which was organised in the old Aleksotas airport in Kaunas at the end of June, could be described. According to the architect R.Palys, “the biggest achievement is that young architects realised the importance of the airport, its semantic and historical significance well“.
The results of entrance examinations to higher art schools announced last Friday caused more concern than joy, similar to last year. The Ministry of Education and Science boasted in spring that it would improve the procedure of artists’ acceptance to higher art schools this year. It promised to correct the formula of evaluation of special skills and methodology of calculation of results. It planned to train evaluation committee members how the evaluation system should be applied and exams should be organised more fluently. Have the promises been fulfilled?
