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Friday, 14 March 2008 |
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Newspaper Diena (Kultūras Diena): Inese Lūsiņa
The South African composer Hendrik Hofmeyr has composed his opus for the choir Kamēr...
The culture of Latvian choirs is famous. It is wonderful to have the opportunity to compose for a choir with such great potential of vocal technique and musicality, - so answers Hendrik Hofmeyr from Cape Town in South Africa. He has written the composition “Desert Sun” for the choir Kamēr... and does not fret for having created for the performers a quite difficult opus. He knows that Kamēr... will perform it perfectly. The project World Sun Songs seduced also because of the fact that “South Africa is located far from culture centres of the world and it is a privilege to participate in an event where one can meet colleagues and persons who share your views." H. Hofmeyr will come for the first performance in Riga on the 3rd of July and is waiting very much for his first trip to Baltic.
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Friday, 07 March 2008 |
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Newspaper Diena (Kultūras Diena): Inese Lūsiņa
Leonid Desyatnikov has composed "just an accompaniment for Lomonosov’s poetry"
The Russian composer Leonid Desyatnikov, born in Ukraine, was first known in Latvia as a person who shares the same views with the violinist Gidon Kremer, as a composer and an arranger for the violinist and his orchestra Kremerata Baltica. In his 50th anniversary year he was the special guest of Kremer and his orchestra in Sigulda, but in one other Kremer’s oasis, Lockenhaus, provincial town of Austria, he heard the choir Kamēr... for the first time. The admiration of the work of Māris Sirmais and the richness of choir’s voices is a beginning that has led to the involvement in the choir’s project World Sun Songs. He prepares for the first performance of his composition “Morning reflections about the power of the God” that will take place on the 3rd of July in the Great Hall of the University of Latvia, so says the composer of Saint-Petersburg when met in Moscow where he is actually leading the jury of the theatre award of Russia “Golden Mask”. This summer he has to visit Riga twice because in June during the performances on tour of the State Academic Bolshoi Theatre of Russia in our Opera it is promised for his and writer’s Vladimir Sorokin’s shared composition, the scandalous opera “Rozental’s children”, to take place.
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Friday, 29 February 2008 |
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Newspaper Diena (Kultūras Diena): Inese Lūsiņa
The Uzbek composer Polina Medyulyanova has composed OFIYAT for the choir Kamēr...
Remission of sins, recuperation, welfare and fortune are only a few meanings for the Uzbek word OFIYAT. The composer Polina Medyulyanova has used this meaningful word as a title for her new piece for the choir Kamēr... and the conductor Māris Sirmais. The idea of light and fire as purgatory forces is derived from ancient Uzbek wedding rituals. They are founded in zoroastrism, the fire-worshiping religion that reigned in the land until the establishment of Islam in the 7th century. Aspects of ancient fire-worshiping traditions have survived in Uzbek daily life. Polina Medyulyanova says: "Torches and different rituals with candles or specific lamps executed around the bed of the newly-wed symbolize the cleansing and purification of the young couple through fire, protecting them from darkness." She constructed the new composition as a vocalise without words, and included the melody of the Uzbek wedding song Yoryor.
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