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.
21st Pažaislis Music Festival final concert. What is not music? 2016-08-30
After the announcement of the 21st Pažaislis Music Festival final concert, when pianist Petras Geniušas started walking towards the stage together with conductor Petras Bingelis, silent music was already playing. Elegance, repose, inner culture and simplicity - pianist's first chords started with his truly royal steps that you cannot learn or perform.
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...
Love for the rhythm and dance 2016-08-03
I got Rhythm is the name of the famous Gershwin song from the musical Girl Crazy. True, the musical itself is not widely known, but the song became popular and later even became a jazz standard. A similar name was given to one of the Pažaislis Music Festival concerts that took place at the Kaunas Botanical Gardens on the 24th of July. The concert was given by Guoda Gedvilaitė and ensemble Giunter Percussion (Pavelas Giunteris, Tomas Kulikauskas, Sigitas Gailius).
DaGamba: classics differently 2016-06-20
The music of DaGamba consists of original compositions based on the classic melodies, thus the famous works take on a whole new form. The most interesting thing is that while listening to DaGamba you feel as if you are attending a rock concert. Sometimes you even feel surprised when you remember that there are no electric guitars or drums on the stage, only two cellos, keyboard and Iranian percussion.
Young Music'16: comments, impressions, references 2016-05-11
Festival Young Music dedicated to contemporary music took place in Vilnius on April 18-23. As it has recently become customary, this year's festival has also featured genre variations combining various manifestations of live electronics, electroacoustic, digital and chamber music. Also there were plenty of conceptualized listening situations, performativity and improvisation combining the variety of media.
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.
