BAJORAS PASITINKA GRUODĮ

KAUNOS STATE CHOIR
Art director and director. conductor Robertas Šerveniks

Soloists:
ŽIVILĖ LAMAUSKIENĖ (soprano)
IVETA KALKAUSKAITĖ (mezzo-soprano)
MINDAUGAS ZIMKUS (tenor )
JORIS RUBINOVA (bass)

Conductor ROBERTAS ŠERVENIKAS

In the program:
Feliksas Bajors - oratorio "Varpo kelimas"
Juozas Gruodis - two suites from the ballet "Jūratė ir Kastytis"; play for orchestra "The Dance of Life"

In this intriguing the concert will symbolically meet two extremely important figures in the history of Lithuanian music. The founder of the Lithuanian composition school, Juozas Gruodis, and his so-called musical grandson, Feliksas Bajoras, a true great of professional Lithuanian music.

J. It is not for nothing that Ruodis is considered the most important musical figure of interwar Lithuania. He is the first Lithuanian composer who regularly composed symphonic music, in which he continued the rich tradition of late programmatic romanticism. J. Gruodis was intensely interested in old Lithuanian folk music - monodies and polyphonic harmony, he often harmonized them, and eventually created an individual style characterized by moderately modern means of expression and elements of Lithuanian folk music. The views of J. Gruodis had a strong influence on many Lithuanian composers for a long time, and this year we celebrate the 140th anniversary of this composer's birth.

"However, it is more important to be yourself than to try to be understood", - asserts the composer F. Bajor, celebrating his ninety-year anniversary, even in his mature age, unpredictable, surprising original angles of traditional genres, forms and unique combinations of ethnic and contemporary music. Being a typical figure of a non-adaptive, uncompromising, lonely creator, F. Bajor sets maximum tasks for both himself and his music performers: "In my music, one phrase seems to end, but before it ends, another one is already emerging from it. Only a performer who intuitively feels the author's thought and is not bound by routine can catch this moment, that "like the end", and start the next in time. but the music that reveals the best features of the work of these composers. F. Bajor's oratorio "Varpo kelimas", which demands a special sense of the poetic word from the performers, was created using the verses of Jonas Strielkūnas. The history of the birth of this oratory is also intriguing: at the end of the 1970s, by order of the Soviet authorities, an oratorio competition was announced in order to publicize the "successes" of communism in Lithuania. Participating in it, F. Bajor decided not to celebrate the Soviet "victories", but to talk about the Vincas Kudirka Resurrection Bell in a brazen tone for those times. Thus, in 1981, the oratorio "Varpo kēlimas" was born, which became the first in F. Bajor's work and the first interpretation of J. Strielkūnas' verses in the oratorio genre.

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