Between emotions and rationality 2016-12-12
The interview with the composer and chairwoman of the Lithuanian Composers' Association Z. Bružaitė, who marked a solid jubilee this year, is about her music: sources of inspiration, creative techniques and tendencies, the evolution of her music, and many other things.
Faustas Latėnas, "Lithuania is undergoing a period of neglect" 2016-09-09
This year, Faustas Latėnas - cultural figure, Prime Minister's adviser on cultural matters, and composer, who has won many important awards and continues to promote Lithuania's name abroad - is celebrating his 60th anniversary. The experience that the interviewed artist has accumulated is impressive, therefore, we could talk about anything, but the axis of this conversation will be the music compositions for drama theatre performances and a short, but significant time spent in Kaunas.
When you are the music 2016-08-24
Kaunas Juozas Naujalis music gymnasium completed a year ago; a year spent at the Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre...But these are only the references to educational institutions. Most likely, the musical experiences were the biggest lesson for the violist Kristina Anusevičiūtė, real challenges and tests, but also the biggest gift of the last school year. The young musical personality speaks about the gift of the talent as the fruition of life, when you touch the strings of the instrument as if they were the tenderest threads of the soul and then you hear the chords sound...
Kaunas Jazz 2016 spring sounds. The second letter 2016-05-10
Festival Kaunas Jazz 2016 at the Vilnius Congress Hall was closed by an Ethiopia-born Israeli Ester Rada - a younger generation jazz star, who became famous only several years ago. Without a doubt, this was the best and most memorable concert of this year's festival.
Kaunas Jazz 2016. First (secret) letter 2016-05-06
Kaunas Jazz festival is perhaps the only festival that can be felt by all sympathetic to this (or not necessarily) genre of music. The festival features many different kinds of music and if some people start questioning whether it is jazz or not really, the answer according to Bobby McFerrin (the star of the 21st Kaunas Jazz) would be only one - "Don't worry." Let's relax and look for the jazz inside us.
