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"Latvia’s Ring": an opening of the Concert Cycle. 14.03.2017.
“Latvia’s Ring”, a major project honouring the centenary of the Latvia is being implemented with co-financing from the Boris and Ināra Teterev Foundation. It is comprised of 16 concerts that will be performed at four concert Latvian halls.
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“Latvia’s Ring”, a major project honouring the centenary of the Latvian State will be implemented with co-financing from the Boris and Ināra Teterev Foundation. It will be comprised of 16 concerts that will be performed at four concert halls in Latvia’s regions during 2017 and 2018.
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This idea, which is the brainchild of the Artistic Head of the Latvian Radio Choir, conductor Sigvards Kļava, is to highlight and showcase the characteristics, jewels and energy of each region of Latvia in four conceptually different rings of concerts through the prism of nation’s dearest asset – the perspective of local people.
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Latgale’s unique cultural heritage with its phenomenon of traditional music making, the power of the sea in Kurzeme coursing through people’s everyday existence, Vidzeme’s national string and symbolic patriotic space, and Zemgale as a broad horizon where rivers of souls come together.
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“The concert cycle “Latvia’s Ring” is a unique gift on the occasion of the centenary of the Latvian State. Sigvards Kļava has brought together outstanding creative personalities, challenging them to make audacious use of various artistic forms: academic music, folklore, visual art and video to augment the compositions. The extensive programme will be launched with a singing rendition of the story of Latgale and concluded with a musical eulogy dedicated to the fertile land of Zemgale. Produced with the generous co-financing of Boris and Ināra Teterev, the project is a stellar example of philanthropic involvement. Moreover, thanks to both philanthropists, the Latvian population can look forward to an even greater present at the conclusion of the State’s centenary in the form of the Latvian Museum of Contemporary Art which will open its doors in 2021,” commented Minister for Culture Dace Melbārde.
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The concert cycle was launched in Rezekne on 22 April 2017 with “For Scriptures and Sound”, a concert dedicated to Latgale. Interwoven in the concert were folk songs and the Holy Scriptures, renditions of which were performed by ethnographic musicians and priests, with live voices and archive recordings.
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Each concert will be performed in a cycle in four Latvian concert halls: the Embassy of Latgale Gors, Cesis Concert Hall, Jelgava Culture House and the Liepaja Great Amber Concert Hall.
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