On Saturday, July 24, in Ventspils, the “Second” or the two-year anniversary of the concert hall “Latvija” will be celebrated with various bright events.
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As Antra Lācberga, the representative of SIA “Kurzeme Philharmonic”, informs “Delfi”, the main event of “Otra” will be a two-part experience of music and performing arts “Apollons. Our Directorate”.
Its first act is an invitation to a kind of portrait gallery in the open space, in the Big Square, to meet again or for the first time the heroes who have been present in the initiatives implemented by the concert hall in the past months. Every anniversary guest or casual passer-by will have the opportunity to experience the close-ups of actor Gundars Āboliņš, musicians Magdalena Geka, Ieva Saliete, Ieva Parša, Arvīds Kazlauskas and the vocal group “Putni”, remembering them in the unusual but dictated contexts of the era. “performance rooms inspired by writers Samuel Beckett and Aldous Huxhley were set up, as well as paraphrasing world events with the” Evergreen “container blocked the entrance to the concert hall.
In the second act, Igor Stravinsky’s ballet “Apollo” “Re-imagination” is expected – the composer’s Platon Buravick’s musical score for the ensemble and Agate Bankava’s choreography created in the aesthetics of contemporary dance in the space arranged by the artist Kristian Brecht. In the performance, which will take place in the Great Hall, the musical score will be interpreted by pianist Francis Gailius, oboist Renāte Lodziņa and guitarist Matīss Čudars,
“Our collaboration is a new look at Stravinsky’s aspirations in a new time and from a new angle. For both performers and, to some extent, audiences, it will be like submitting to the relationship between music and physicality, succumbing to the power of music and seeking stability in today’s turbulent space.” says choreographer Agate Bankava.
“One of the versions of the original name of the ballet, awkwardly translated through several foreign languages, could be” Apollo – the director of muse. “Re-imagining this work in music, movement and space, as well as trying to imprint today’s space in the shell of this new work, we came up with a bit of a crazy word game in the title. timeless today, “adds Miks Magone, the artistic director of the concert hall” Latvija “.
At the end of the evening, a trio concert of the outstanding Norwegian trumpet player Nils Petter Molvær will take place on the open-air stage of the concert hall, but a duo of drummer Ivars Arutjunjans and saxophonist Kārlis Auziņš will play music.
Anniversary events in the Grand Square and on the open-air stage are free of charge.
Tickets for “Apollons. Our Directorate” Act II Concert Hall in the Great Hall) can be purchased from July 2 “Ticket Paradise” sales network. Limited number of tickets on sale.
The “Second” event is intended both indoors and outdoors for a mixed type of audience – both vaccinated, Covid-19 sick and pre-Covid-19 visitors, able to present an appropriate digital certificate.
There are two types of tickets for the “Apollons. Our Directorate” II performance concert hall “Latvija” in the Great Hall: seats on the ground floor are available for mixed audiences (including children under 12), subject to the restrictions in force during the event (distance, face mask use, etc.); Seats on the balcony are available only to vaccinated or Covid-19 diseased spectators, being able to present an appropriate digital certificate at a separate entrance from Pāvila Street.
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