Sandra Trežina
There is also life after the Song Festival. We are still swaying in their joyful rhymes, we praise each other, we are proud of beauty and soulfulness, patriotism, artistic ability, the ability to tolerate and overcome the difficulties that inevitably arose during the creation of the holiday and its course, etc. And rightfully so! The fact that we have such a celebration, which is not found anywhere else in the world, is truly amazing! Also, the fact that the interest in them from both participants and viewers/listeners does not decrease, rather it increases. Also, how beautifully we know how to mess up and how we learn to show off all of it! If you haven’t experienced all this yourself, you just have to look at the photos of the holiday reports, you won’t see so many really happy and beautiful people at any other event! And there are people who not only keep the high bar set in terms of demands against all developments, but try to raise it even higher, proclaiming the motto of the holiday: “Together up!”
Not for a moment forgetting all the beautiful and great, but you should also look at some stumbling blocks, which are also inevitable in such grandiose events and which are not always left by the festival organizers or participants. Well, at least the constant walking of the audience and listeners during the concert. It’s really disturbing, depressing the general mood! A wonderful stage has been built in Mežapark, and there are also comfortable seats for the audience, thought out so that we don’t block each other’s view of the stage, so that we can comfortably go to our seats. Does it promote the “great folk walk”? In the stands of the Daugava Stadium, where the seats are tighter, but we don’t walk like that. And what’s wrong with people if they can’t do without eating and drinking while performing songs? It seems that the words of Imantas Ziedonis “Baby, don’t eat when the song is sung” have not yet reached all ears.
Each of us is different, so perhaps you should not be surprised by those who, having bought not cheap tickets to a concert, visit the sales area during the concert to browse the range of products. Could you really buy something very exclusive?
Returning to our beautiful tradition, however, there is one thing that worries and which, in my opinion, also requires a national perspective, a national approach. They are men’s voices in chorus. No, everything was fine with the sound of men’s voices, and technological possibilities came to the rescue, but what are the numerical proportions between women’s and men’s voices? Looking at the row of small islands of men in the huge “sea” of women, concerns about the future of the holiday do arise. If they started directly with the men’s choir movement, will it end with only wives and girls on stage, and men’s voices (at best) only playing? Already this time, the 22 male choirs that remained in Latvia also learned, not with great joy, the repertoire of the mixed choir. In the concert of the conductors’ choir, the chief conductor Ints Teterovskis joked a bit about these proportions of voices, perhaps, and let’s hope that he has a plan to change it.
2023-07-17 16:44:27
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