In Valmiera Burkānciem, a backyard live performance celebrates the Music Pageant devoted to the pianist Jautrīte Putniņa

Whenever you open the door of 1 Namdaru Road, music is enjoying, as a result of the brand new pianists Anna and Elīza have come to rehearse with their trainer Ritmas Pētersones-Cepīte, this isn’t their first time at Burkānciem backyard celebrations.

One of many targets of the backyard live shows, in keeping with Aivars Cepītis, is to proceed Jautrīte Putniņa’s want – to provide younger musicians the chance to play music along with professionals, and that would be the case tonight as properly.

“Collectively, skilled musicians who give live shows and kids who’re simply beginning out or who’ve already discovered one thing. Those who will profit, after all, are the kids, as a result of they hear how the music ought to sound, this isn’t only a live performance, that is principally. a live performance {of professional} musicians,” defined Aivars Cepītis.

“The Jautrīte technique is carried out right here, so that every baby is taught music in keeping with his capacity and understanding, and it is extremely necessary that youngsters take heed to skilled musicians play music and studying from it,” mentioned Ritma Pētersone-Cepīte.

“The repertoire could be very free; the rule is that it’s principally educational music, however with out dubbing; there was one live performance with dubbing, however every thing else is acoustic, to listen to the individual’s voice straight, to listen to the instrument as it’s. We additionally play very critical applications for the viewers – baroque music, classical music, there are additionally, after all, Latvian composers and Latvian folks songs,” mentioned Aivars Cepītis.

The pianist Jautrīte Putniņa already began music festivals and backyard live shows in Valmiera, it was a collaboration with the Valmiera Music College, which at the moment was directed by Aivars Cepītis. However there’s another excuse why these live shows are held beneath the signal of the excellent pianist Jautrīte Putniņa.

Aivars Cepītis explains: “Firstly, as a result of Jautrīte was born in 1929, it’s now her ninety fifth birthday and, secondly, the piano that Jautrīte Putniņa used to play has been given to us by her son Māris Putniņš, with the situation that it’s going to all the time be. for use partially on the ceremony that might be held right here. [..] Then yearly we take this piano out, after all it is tuned, and yearly it performs. “

Backyard festivals had been held in Burkānciem for the sixth 12 months, as Ritma and Aivars say, – as soon as of their place after which on one other avenue, but it surely should be in Burkānciem – this is likely one of the residential areas in Valmiera, for which there isn’t any one. true justification of the place this title got here from, one model is that after, when there was no metropolis right here, fields and carrots had been grown.

“Solely on the streets of Burkānciems and solely in Burkānciems, as a result of the necessary factor is that Burkānciems is, I feel, the one one on the earth, and we not solely put it up for sale, however we additionally need individuals to come back collectively,” affirms Aivars Ceapitis. “These live shows deliver individuals collectively, I hope, as a result of afterwards the soup is shared, and everybody speaking much more over the soup. Burkāciems is an space of ​​non-public homes, so in non-public homes individuals stay roughly alone. Normally it is like that – one live performance is with us, on Namdaru Road, we talked about it from the very starting, and the opposite one is on one other avenue.”

Because the live shows happen within the backyard, the place there are neighbors round, it’s not possible to prepare them with out neighbors being there.

“Our neighbors additionally sit right here, pay attention, the neighbor provides us chairs, benches, as a result of we want a spot the place individuals can sit,” says Aivars Cepītis.

“Give me, assist carry the soup to the campfire, we now have good buddies,” mentioned Ritma Pētersone-Cepīte.

Aivars Cepītis emphasizes: “It isn’t a live performance the place we sit in our seats, after shopping for tickets. The present is free, if anybody does not prefer it, they’ll stand up and stroll.”

On the night of July 20, on the finish of the Burkānciems backyard live performance, there might be a chance to take pleasure in meals ready in keeping with the recipes of Jautrīte Putniņas.

Each summer season there are two Burkānciems live shows – one within the Cepīš household backyard and the opposite on one other avenue, this summer season the opposite one might be on Brīvības avenue 2, the place the pianist Jautrīte Putniņa used to stay .