I am infinitely grateful for the fate that has allowed me to be a part of Emīls Dārziņš Music High School (EDMV), and I rather see the management of this school as a service, the head of the school Iveta Dreiblate emphasized on the 75th anniversary of the EDMV.
Emīls Dārziņš Music High School will celebrate its 75th anniversary on October 16 in the Grand Guild with a concert “Restart – 75”. Although due to restrictions, only the school staff and guests will be able to attend the concert in person, everyone will be able to listen to it live on Latvian Radio 3 “Klasika” and watch the school Homepage.
With what ideas and feelings does the Emils Darzins Music School, which is part of the National Art High School, look forward to its anniversary? Iveta Dreiblate noted that the mission and essence of the holiday is to get yourself out of the daily race and think about things that are higher and more spiritual – things that people do not think and talk about on a daily basis. Iveta Dreiblate spoke about her current feelings about holidays and everyday life: “Endless everyday life is very depressing. In this time of tension, culture is one of the aspects that helps to maintain common sense, because the tension is enormous. You don’t see it every day, but you feel it all the time when talking to people. ”
The jubilee year has created a feeling of restart for Dreiblate. The very creation of the concert was a team work for a month. “It simply came to our notice then. That day we realized it wouldn’t be, because from March 13, everyone went to distance learning, which was a painful moment. [..] Thinking about the 75th anniversary, I have a story that my colleague’s 94-year-old grandfather said angry about his neighbor: how not to be ashamed – such a young man, only 75 years old and does not want to work, ”said Iveta Dreiblate.
Conductor Andris Vecumnieks studied at Emīls Dārziņš Music High School, graduated from it, and after graduating from school he started working there. In the 1990s, Vecumnieks was the deputy director of teaching, and he said that he knew what the time of change required for the Garden School:
“When legislation and jurisdiction had not yet been put in place, they could afford to improvise much, much more, more creatively, more freely, more independently than is currently possible.
In the 1990s, the EDMV became an elite, high, professional school with a strong humanitarian orientation. The main emphasis was on languages, cultural history and history. Everything related to the exact sciences was needed only as much as the basics. ”
Andris Vecumnieks noted that while working at both the music academy and the school, he has undergone numerous reforms, and agrees that everyone has tried to improve the situation by changing the system, but without evaluating the good in the current system. “EDMV is a brand. “Dārziņi”, “Mediņi” [Jāzepa Mediņa mūzikas vidusskola], Jurjāni [Pāvula Jurjāna mūzikas skola]. It is a brand and a unique value, ”says Andris Vecumnieks, saying that it is not necessary to unify and create schools according to one standard – the“ European mystical model ”, because there are no other schools like EDMV in the world. When Andris Vecumnieks was vice-rector of the Academy of Music 12 years ago, he went to the Rostock Academy of Music. The rector of the Rostock School of Music wanted to know more about EDMV because he liked the idea that students have had the opportunity to learn music professionally since first grade. “I told you the idea. The result culminated in the fact that Iveta Dreiblat and I played together with the Rostock Youth Music School, so she exists, she took care of her. That is the value we are rich in. Teaching Europe why it is needed. Any investment in culture pays off countlessly. If we have a culture and are healthy in spirit, then our physical health will allow us to perceive all the conflicts that are happening much more intelligently, ”says Andris Vecumnieks.
Outstanding musicians such as Raimonds Pauls, Gidons Krēmers, Pēteris Vasks, Andris Nelsons, Georgs Pelēcis, Pēteris Plakidis, Juris Karlsons, Mārtiņš Brauns and many others have graduated from EDMV.
Iveta Dreiblate told the EDMV about the current situation: “I feel the support of the Ministry of Culture both materially and morally. Completely free of questions.
The fight is against everyone wanting to be equalized.
Yes, everyone should have the same rights, but all these stories that you have to do it because you are exactly the same as everyone else, but every school should be given the opportunity to be individual. We work this way. This model is exactly what creates and creates these effects. If our key word is excellence, then we should be allowed to work in that direction. It is my belief that the school should be allowed to be what it is. ”
Andris Vecumnieks, supplementing what Dreiblates said, noted that there should be no universality in art:
“Art begins where the regulations of the Cabinet of Ministers ended.
This is my winged saying, but in essence, individualities and personalities that do not fit into the parameters of the era have shaped the history of music. We remember Bahu and Handel only because they were abnormal in their time. We remember Haydn, Beethoven only because they were not what they were at the time. But through them, after 300 years, we assess the trends and features of the era. All the named personalities who are graduates of the Gardening School are extraordinary personalities. They do not need unification at all. “
How has Dārziņš School changed in recent years? For example, has the role of ensembles or orchestras been replaced by soloists? Andris Vecumnieks believes that changes have taken place. Much also overestimated what could be done better. However, it is not that there are no soloists, Vecumnieks emphasized, but it must be understood that the soloist is one of hundreds and thousands of musicians, but the activity of a professional musician is related to work in an orchestra and ensembles. The conductor explained that now there is an opportunity, perhaps not before the 90’s, that every enterprising and musically gifted person can manage and produce himself. Consequently, the musicianship of ensembles is currently very high and large, active. As for the orchestra, it has always existed since the 1990s and has set very high goals. “Normunds Dreģis, Normunds Vaicis – I really want to mention these two words. Normunds Vaicis resuscitated the orchestra in the 1990s, but Normunds Dreģis maintained the orchestra at a high artistic quality for a long time in the 2000s. We allow musicians to look more broadly at the perspective of the music profession. Not just thinking that he will be an outstanding soloist. At the same time, for example, a prominent soloist like Daniil Bulaev, who I think has performed wherever his age is possible, now sits in the orchestra at the front desk, is the orchestra’s concertmaster and conducts the orchestra perfectly, and he has no had a desire not to play in the orchestra.
What has changed is that now students have more personality already in their youth, because everyone with their opinion, their desire, their interests, here only talks about what is in a good sense, but young people in principle more or less come with their goal, their setting what you want to achieve. If in this situation the teacher manages to help purposefully achieve this goal, then we see such personalities who have been graduates of the EDMV in recent years, such as the Osokin dynasty, Balana, Skride, Madara Liepiņa, Daumants Liepiņš. These are the words that the EDPS can be proud of. “
Today’s youth is incomparably more purposeful, says Iveta Dreiblate:
“They are ready to work hard and hard to achieve the goal.
What makes me happy – our students, high school students create their own ensembles, which are still able to survive after graduation. That is wonderful.”
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