Newspaper Neatkarīgā Rīta Avīze Latvijai: Lauma Mellēna

On the 3rd and 4th of July at the Great Hall of the University of Latvia the choir Kamēr performed sun songs of seventeen composers of the world, thus creating a scintillating mixture of sounds and colours designed as a greeting to the sun.

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The Latvian composer Raimonds Pauls within the framework of the project World Sun Songs

Has Raimonds Pauls often been speculating on the topic of the Sun? “I have thought of it within the context of Latvian climate. When one has had to live with dullness and grey clouds for months on end, and then one day the sun appears, the person is revived. I even forgot the pain in my back!” His song Splendid Sun in the Sky with poetry written in the style of Latvian folksongs by Inese Zandere, has turned out to be the shortest among the newly written choir opuses by sixteen composers from all over the world, which have been created at the invitation of conductor Māris Sirmais for the “World Sun Songs” project.