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A total of 36 singers from eight Riga educational institutions take part in the performance, the overall sound is complemented by professional musicians – Egija Sproģe (flute), Elīza Sestule (cello), Māris Vitkus (keyboards), Jānis Olekšs (bass) and Mārtiņš Miļevskis (percussion). The soundtrack was created and conducted by Inga Cimiņa, the project was led by Ilona Plūme, the chief specialist in choir music of the Riga Methodological Center for Interest Education, and the project manager was Santa Vancāne.
The singers’ voices in the digital choir were compiled by sound director Kārlis Zvejnieks, while the video was composed by Jānis Romanovskis.
According to the creators of the video, Imants Kalniņš’s songs have always occupied an important place in the repertoire of both concerts and the Song Festival in the repertoire of school choirs. You can’t imagine a children’s choir that wouldn’t have sung “Fun Dance,” “Golden Strainer,” or “Eight Moves,” or a youth choir that wouldn’t be enthralled by “Song on the Question,” “While,” “A Song You’ll Start With?” or the final song from the movie “Sprīdītis”, because this music is timeless, does not lose its relevance and message, forcing hundreds of listeners to sing along both everyday and on holidays.
Inga Cimiņa, the head of the Riga Methodology Center for Interest Education, the author of the virtual choir project, shares her thoughts on the choice of song: “Imants Kalniņš ‘s special handwriting – depth and nuanced fragility, has addressed listeners, singers and musicians of all generations, including me. working on the project, the hardest part was figuring out which to choose from the huge range of songs, but this time, which makes us all overestimate a lot, told us that we can go on, we can burn for an idea, for culture, for tradition, for our young people, that the song is always by the side, it warms even in difficult times, it gives strength and enthusiasm, so – “My new song is hot” in the sound of the new choir, because we are “Earth that sings”! “
Imants Kalnins born on May 26, 1941.
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