On August 1, the actor celebrates his 75th birthday Ivars Kalniņš. A series of works dedicated and written to his voice Artura Maskata a song with the poetry of both Aleksandar Čak and Ojārs Vācieš.
In September 1983, the Daile Theater starts the new season in the Great Hall with the poetry composition “B minor” by Ojārs Vācieš, in which the actor Ivars Kalniņš reads and sings the poetry, with the composer Artur Maskat playing the piano. The event is dedicated to the 50th anniversary of Ojārs Vācieš and was published only a few months before his death. At that time, Arturs Maskats was the head of the Music Department of the Daile Theater, and this poetry composition and songs from it found a great and warm response in the audience, later it was shown for several years in various places in Latvia.
Ingrīda Zemzare in the newspaper “Literatūra u Māksla”: “In the twenty-two songs composed by Artur Maskats, Ivars Kalniņš has lived in such a way that they seem to be created on the spot. Theater actors have never seen such “torment” with the difficult melody. “B minor” actor and the author seems to merge, which is also the stylistic ideal of the chanson genre.”
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2023-08-01 17:15:39
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