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11:00 Town Square
Concert: Classical music at 11
Belgrade Faculty of Music’s Students
The Faculty of Music Art of the University of Arts in Belgrade celebrates 78 years of its activity as the oldest school of higher music education in Serbia in 2015. It built the foundations of the overall development of professional musicians and particularly of the overall system of music education. With 822 students and almost 200 teachers, it is the largest school of this type in the region and its study programs cover all the specific features of music.
The Faculty of Music has twelve departments: Composition, Conducting, Solo Singing, Piano, String instruments (violin, viola, cello, double bass), Wind instruments (flute, oboe, clarinet, bassoon, horn, trumpet, trombone and tuba), Musicology, Music pedagogy, Music Theory, Ethnomusicology, Chamber Music and Jazz. There are twenty-six study programs at under-graduate, master and doctoral level in the field of arts and science. Among the teachers are the most prominent Serbian artists – composers Zoran Erić and Isidora Žebeljan, conductor Bojan Sudjić, baritone Nikola Mijajilovic, soprano Aneta Ilić, pianist Aleksandar Serdar, violinist Maja Jokanović, violist Dejan Mladjenović, cellist Sandra Belić, bassist Nebojša Ignjatović, flutist Ljubiša Jovanović, trumpeter Mladen Djordjević, harpist Ljiljana Nestorovska and many others. Their best students will present themselves in the newly established program of The Days of Mokranjac – Classical music at 11 A.M. joining the European practice of holding concerts in the open air.
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18:00 Krajina Cinema Stage
Presentation:Fifty years of the Days of Mokranjac, monograph
Author: professor Sonja Marinkovic, PhD, musicologist
Publisher: Cultural Centre Stevan Mokranjac, Negotin
Monograph Fifty years of the festival „The Days of Mokranjac“(1966-2015) is conceptually and visually linked to the monograph published on the occasion of the 25th anniversary of the Festival by Dejan Despic. It includes an overview of all segments of the festival programs (opening ceremony with the traditional sermon, singing competition of choirs, concert, art, theatre and folklore programs, scientific discussions, promotions, youth participation, awards and recognition), analyses the concepts, ideas, significance of achievements, echoes, place and the role of the Festival in the Serbian culture and art. In addition to the statistics data concerning realized programs that will serve as a base for all further researches, the monograph brings recognizing the importance of the contribution that the festival achieved in the Serbian culture and opens up a whole range of specific problem-solving circles regarding the characteristics of the Festival, and the evolution of the ideas which have been initiated. It analyses the organizational and financial aspects, discusses issues related to the areas in which festival programs take place, the attitude of the audience towards certain segments of the program, as well as other institutions in the city.
The author of the monograph is PhD Sonja Marinkovic, musicologist, professor at the Faculty of Music Art in Belgrade.
PhD Sonja Marinković, musicologist, full time professor at the Department of Musicology at the Faculty of Music, Belgrade, Serbia, teaches history of music and research methodology. She is a member of Editorial Board of the International Magazin for Music New Sound; Editor-in-chief of magazin Mokranjac; director of XIV and XV Review of composers in Belgrade (2005–2006). She is engaged in research work concerning the Serbian history of music of the 20th century, especially dealing with the problem of relation between folklore and composers’ creativity (her doctoral theses was National Music Features in Serbian Music in the First Half of the 20th Century), as well as the problem of social art. She is author of high school text-books in the subjects: music culture, history of music and history of Serbian music.
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19:00 Krajina Cinema Stage
Concert: Belgrade Harp Quartet
Belgrade Harp Quartet was founded in 1987 at the summer academic music workshop of the Faculty of Music Art in Belgrade, in the framework of the course of the harp, which was headed by Milica Baric, professor. By establishing this ensemble, the idea of the promotion of the harp as an instrument and chamber playing of the harp was born. This was followed by numerous performances and new ideas, and this quartet, creating its own audience, became a regular factor in the chamber repertoire of Belgrade and other cities in the country. The highlight in the realization of the initial, founding ambition, but also of new ideas, quartet experienced in the last ten years, consisted of current performers – Ljiljana Nestorovska (full professor at the Faculty of Music in Belgrade), Milena Stanisic (Associate Professor at the Faculty of Music in Belgrade), Dijana Sretenović (Professor of Music school Mokranjac), Ivana Pavlovic (solo harpist in the Orchestra of Serbian National Theatre in Novi Sad). They had one of the first appearances in 2002 at the World Congress of the harp in Geneva. After this performance, they had many concerts at home and abroad, of which stand out:
Project Harp Connection (2012) – 4 concerts with the Swiss artist Nathalie Satlin (in Podgorica, Sarajevo, Belgrade and Pancevo); 11th World Harp Congress with the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra (Canada, 2011); Rio Harp Festival (Brazil, 2008); Harp Days in Szeged (Hungary, 2009); Circle of Premiers (VII International Harp Festival in Belgrade, 2008 – premiere performance of four double concert and the music piece of domestic composer Bozidar Obradinovic for four harps and strings, with cooperation with the Chamber Orchestra St. George Strings); Baš-Čaršija evening, Raska’s Spiritual Ceremony, NIMUS, Marble and sounds etc.
As its special and very important, missionary activity, the Quartet has developed the cultivation and promotion of music by local authors. It is a permanent part of the repertoire, with a special emphasis on compositions written for this ensemble. As a part of these activities, performances that stand out are in Geneva (2002), the closure of the 10th International Festival of harps, closure of the 11th World Harp Congress Vancouver, performance at the concerts held within the project Music of Serbian composers for harp (2011). Music made by local authors is a permanent part of the repertoire of the Belgrade Harp Quartet.
20:00
20:00 Cultural Centre
Musical: Zorba the Greek
Director: Mihajlo Vukobratovic
Terazije Theatre
Based on the novel The Curious Adventures of Alexis Zorbas by Nikos Kazantzakis (1883-1957), written in 1946, the Greek director Michael Kakojanis recorded a movie called Zorba the Greek in American-Greek production in 1964. The film starred Anthony Quinn, Alan Bates, Irene Papas and Lila Kedrova. Music was composed by Mikis Theodorakis. The film was a great success and was awarded with three Academy Awards that year. Theodorakis’ music was particularly noteworthy, who used this film to promote traditional Greek music and folklore dance called Sirtaki which subsequently became very popular worldwide. .
… The attitude towards life and way of thinking of each of these characters and themes that Kazantzakis treats in his novel are universal metaphors about life and death, love and hate, happiness and unhappiness, friendship. These are the basic themes dealt with in the theater adaptation and dramatization of literary works.
Extract from the text by Predrag Perisic
Dramatization: Predrag Perisic
Playwrighter: Slobodan Obradovic
Adapted and directed by:
Mihailo Vukobratovic
Arranger and conductor
Milan Nedeljkovic
Costume designer: Emilija Kovacevic
Set designer: Magdalena Laki
Choreographer: Snezana Zablacanski
Artistic Associate: Zeljko Jovanovic
STARRING:
Aleksis Zorba / Desimir Stanojevic
Jason / Slobodan Stefanovic
Madame Beatris / Ljiljana Stjepanovic
Maria / Kristina Savic
Kiros / Vladan Savic
Stavros / Danijel Korsa
Angel / Milan Antonic
Lola / Ana Korac
Elena / Marina Aleksic
BALLET:
Danica Arapovic, Elena Gromilic, Tamara Martinovic, Barbara Milovanov, Tamara Afanasijev, Irena Sarovic, Milan Gromilic, Nebojsa Gromilic, Milos Mitic, Igor Naumoski, Igor Grabovica, Makarevic Djordje, Uros Petronijevic, Nemanja Naumoski, Biljana Knezevic, Iva Pjetlovic, Slavica Stojanovic, Dolores Magdelinic.
CHORUS:
Jasminka Nikolic, Jelena Mit, Marcelo Lukic, Biljana Zutic, Zorica Boskovic, Dusica Rajic, Biljana Pekovic, Tatjana Nikolic, Miroslav Markovic, Military Orlic, Marko Bogdanic, Zoran Doronjski, Bojan Gavrilovic, Jovan Nikolic, Ljubisa Dinčić, Nenad Nenic.
ORCHESTRA:
Zoran Kovacevski, Nenad Ninkovic, Mihajlo Bogosavljevic, Mladen Lukic Ivan Rankovic, Ana Rajkovic, Aleksandar Miletic, Uros Rankovic, Tatjana Radunovic, Nikola Djokic, Vlastimir Blagojevic, Hranislav Ganic, Milan Kitanovic and Nebojsa Stanic.