The concert will include “Dziesma par game”, “Daugaviņa”, “Zzied’ ar mani tautu meita”, “I meti”, “Great Albert”, “Love is like fire”, “Eternal city” and other songs. At the concert, Andris Veismanis will be at the conductor’s desk, while the symphonic arrangements of popular songs were created specially for this concert program by Emīls Zilberts.
As stated in the Latvian National Encyclopedia, Braun is an artist with a rich creative spectrum, which covers rock and pop music, theater and cinema music, choral songs, works of the academic genre and others. From 1977 to 1986, he was the leader of the group “Sīpoli”, while from 1987 to 1992, Braun was the musical director of the chamber choir “Sindi putnu dārzs”.
In 1970, Braun entered the Jāzeps Vītolas State Conservatory of Latvia, the composition department in the class of symphonist Ādolfs Skultes, and temporarily gave up his career in rock music. In 1975, Braun graduated from the conservatory with the qualification of composer and music theory teacher. His diploma work was the symphonic ballad “Tālava’s piper”, which was performed again in 2020 with the conductor Ainārs Rubikis and the Liepāja Symphony Orchestra.
While still a student, the composer started working at the Drama Theatre, which is today the Latvian National Theatre, as the head of the musical section, and music was composed for the theater’s repertoire for several performances. The theater’s repertoire also included Brown’s blues program, played by a band he led that used the unofficial name “The Onions.”
In 1980, “Sīpoli” became famous by participating in the Tbilisi rock festival, which was followed by other festivals, where the rock group led by Braun received great interest. Due to Braun’s original compositions, it was difficult for the ensemble to fit into the common Latvian pop music scene. For the most part, the composer wrote large-scale works for his ensemble – extended song cycles, suites with high-quality poetry.
In the absence of the author himself, the composer’s name has been heard the most in connection with the music created in 1988 for the Raini’s poem “Daugava” staged in the Drama Theater of Valmiera. Its song “Saule, Pērkons, Daugava” has almost become the unofficial anthem of Latvia, but in 2014 it became the anthem of the Catalan independence movement in the northeastern region of Spain.
2024-01-21 16:34:00
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