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Wednesday, 28 May 2008 |
Diena (Kultūras Diena): Inese Lūsiņa
The Australian composer Stephen Leek in the cycle “World Sun Songs”
In the Australian aboriginal world outlook the Sun is most frequently depicted as a woman and the Moon a man. Of the numerous stories relating to the birth of the sun perhaps the most emotional one is from the Wotjobaluk People of Northern Victoria. Knowee, the sun, was once a woman who lived in a cave in the time when the earth was dark. It was very hard to come across any food under the gloomy skies of these dark lands. With her bark torch held high, Knowee ventured out in search of food for her young son. She searched desperately but there was only dust, rocks and cliffs. She was desperate and anxious, and ventured further and further from the cave until she realised that she had lost her way and the cave where her son waited. In desperation she walked on to the end of the earth, stumbled and fell into the empty skies of the earth. Since then, everyday with her torch held high, Knowee crosses the sky from horizon to horizon still looking for her lost son.
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Saturday, 17 May 2008 |
Newspaper Diena (Kultūras Diena): Inese Lūsiņa
Composer John Tavener within the framework of the project “World Sun Songs”
Upon invitation by Māris Sirmais, one of the world’s most mysterious and most influential representatives of the new spirituality movement – the British composer John Tavener is getting prepared for the first performance of his newest choir opus within the framework of the project “World Sun Songs” and will visit us not for the first time. He has already been here in the year of his sixtieth anniversary (2004) as the special guest of the International Sacred Music Festival. At that time we got acquainted to his music in a remarkable author’s concert at the St-Peter’s Church, where the State Choir Latvija, soloists and the Latvian National Symphony Orchestra performed under the guidance of Māris Sirmais. Now he is among 17 composers, who will soon come to Riga from different corners of the world to honour the first performances of the opuses, which are dedicated to the Sun and will be performed in a concert of the choir Kamēr... on the 3rd and 4th of July at the Great Hall of the University of Latvia.
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Thursday, 08 May 2008 |
Newspaper Diena (Kultūras Diena): Inese Lūsiņa
The Estonian composer Urmas Sisask in the cycle “World Sun Songs”
This composition is my dedication to the Sun, the main power source of the Solar system. Without the Sun there would be nothing. The sun creates and gives us the possibility to see a miracle, so the Estonian composer Urmas Sisask comments his new choir opus A Miracle Created by the Sun. He has composed it on request by the conductor Māris Sirmais. The youth choir Kamēr… will perform it within the framework of the project “World Sun Songs” on the 3rd and 4th of July at the Great Hall of the University of Latvia, alongside with other pieces of 16 composers from other countries.
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Thursday, 01 May 2008 |
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Newspaper Diena (Kultūras Diena): Inese Lūsiņa
Within the framework of the project “World Sun Songs” we tell about the composer Sven-David Sandström
Ah, Sun-flower! This is the title of the newest choir opus that was written by the Swedish composer Sven David Sandström with the poetry of the British romantic poet William Blake. The sunflower is already being carefully cultivated during the youth choir’s Kamēr... rehearsals so that the sixteen-part a cappella song could bloom during the concert World Sun Songs on the 3rd and 4th of July at the Great Hall of the University of Latvia. There, in the presence of composers, who have dedicated compositions to the sun, Māris Sirmais will conduct 17 songs that come from 16 countries of the world. Sven David Sandström has promised to come as well. However, he keeps himself silent and doesn’t answer at the present moment. The questions addressed to the composer who has been living in the USA for 10 years now and who is also a professor of the Indiana University disappear unanswered somewhere in the virtual depths.
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Friday, 25 April 2008 |
Newspaper Diena (Kultūras Diena): Inese Lūsiņa
Within the framework of the project “World Sun Songs” we tell about the composer Alberto Grau.
On his tours with the youth choir Kamēr... the conductor Māris Sirmais has noticed an unwritten axiom: the farther to the South you go, the more joyful, responsive and sunnier people get. People there know how to vitally enjoy their lives and do not worry about everyday burden. As an example he mentions the famous Latin American leader of choral music, the Venezuelan composer and conductor Alberto Grau, whose compositions every now and then has freshened up Kamēr’s repertoire with the spirit of Latin American music. After having agreed to partake in the project “World Sun Songs”, Alberto Grau wrote music especially for the Latvian choir, and he will be present at its first performance in a concert, in which new pieces of 17 different composers of the world will be performed on the 3rd and 4th of July at the Great Hall of the University of Latvia.
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