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After the last sounds of the thirteenth Pažaislis Music Festival died away, the superstitious people could feel frustrated – “the great dozen” appeared to be not so terrible. The number did not spoil the final concert or other events of the festival this year. The concert performance of the opera "Village Pride" by P.Mascagni, the accent of the final concert, was not spoiled even by the rain that started in the middle of the programme.
The main task of the reconstruction is to create an architecturally memorable modern public space, which would become the object of attraction in Kalniečiai district. It should be a democratic place for being, resting and entertaining oneself. The architects offer to change the name of the square. They plan to divide the territory of the square into three zones of intensiveness: passive rest, active rest and amphitheatre space for events.
The organisers of the project of glass art European Glass Context 2008 wanted to give prominence to the national identity and school in the project. Speaking about this point, the expositions remained rather silent about this topic. It seems that few countries maintain own traditions.
When discussions about art and Lithuania started, K.Zapkus stated that one should cross out everything in Lithuania, all traditions and villages with wooden churches, that new art had to be created. Arūnas who cherished traditions was shocked. He turned white and it was only a lucky accident that he did not start a fight with K.Zapkus.
“A lecturer should obtain trust of students. They should be sure that he will not say anything that he will not be able to ground on the basis of his professional experience and that he will say everything he should say. A lecturer, who was silent when his duty was to express an opinion, knows deep in the heart that he has lost the right to such trust. He looks at his students with unclean conscience, and a human being with unclean conscience is similar to a patient.”
Darius Rakauskas: “I stopped fearing to exhibit works since then. The fact that the respected professor searched for the best variant of the exposition without emphasising his personality remained deep in my heart.”
