Town Square THE GOLDEN ALBUM of Stevan St. Mokranjac opens this September its pages in the exhibition at the town square. They are spread for those who respect him, follow his work and all guests of the fiftieth Festival in his honour and passers-by, as another remembrance of cultural heritage which part we are. Festival exhibition is realized in cooperation of the Cultural Centre Stevan Mokranjac and Museum of Krajina. 20:00 Cultural CentrePRE - FESTIVAL DAY
Festival’s installation
Exhibition:
MOKRANJAC – THE GOLDEN ALBUM
While singing in Negotin Church Choir, Mokranjac gained his first knowledge of music. From Negotin, he went out to the world to gain recognition as a musical giant. The world will keep immortal pieces composed by Mokranjac – his marvelous music, and Negotin will keep even more – the place of the beginning and the birth, his letters, memories and photographs, personal items, presents he got while travelling and performing with the choir, musical instruments and other personal belongings.
Vigilantly keeping all the details of his personal and creative life, Negotin has made permanent exhibition in the birth house of the composer, preserving them from oblivion. That legacy of his fruitful life will be used by the coming generations for learning and creating following his traces.20:00 VIVA VOX
Concert:
Choir Viva Vox, Belgrade
Conductor: Jasmina Lorin
VIVA VOX Choir celebrated its 10th anniversary together with 10 000 people at the biggest concert they had ever held – in Belgrade Kombank Arena, on May 9th 2015. In 2009 they introduced beat boxing in their performance – vocal technique that imitates sounds of drums and percussion instruments – and turns to interpretations of pop-rock and alternative music a cappella (voices only). This makes them unique performers in our country. Viva Vox’s a cappella rendition of Du Hast, a song by a German industrial-metal band Rammstein, went viral on the internet in July 2011, and brought global popularity to the choir in just a few days. What followed was the concert in Belgrade Sava Centre on December 1st 2011 where they performed mix of songs by British band The Prodigy which surpassed the interpretation of Du hast. Only a year later, the Choir was again in front of the full hall of Sava Centre, with three sold out performances in a row. Still, their energy was best expresses on great rock festivals Belgrade Beer Fest 2012 and EXIT 2013 which they officially opened.
Their greatest career achievement is the concert in the General Assembly Hall of the United Nations in New York on the 14th of January 2013, as a part of Orthodox New Year’s celebrations. As the only musical group from this region to ever perform in this hall, Viva Vox has joined the select company of musicians who have had this great honour. Rest of the world had the honour of listening to them on tours in China, Poland, The Czech Republic, Austria, Belarus and many other countries.
Jasmina Lorin, born in Pula, was teaching music in Zemun Grammar School from 1993 till 2006. She was also the school choir conductor which was always amongst the highest ranked choirs in state championships. In the period from 2006 till 2010 she was the principal in Zemun Grammar school where she currently works as a librarian. At the same time, since 2014, she has been teaching music in Primary school Kosta Manojlovic in Zemun.
The choir she founded in 2002 within Cultural Artistic Society Branko Radicevic, was renamed Viva Vox in 2005, and it accomplished a series of successful international tours (The Netherlands, Croatia, Greece, Bulgaria, The Czech Republic, Poland, Macedonia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, Austria, China, USA).