We invite you to the Western Lithuanian Tune Pageant in Klaipėda!

Songs and dances will sound once more in Klaipėda!

The Tune Pageant of Western Lithuania is a practice that’s maybe the biggest and most quite a few on this area, commemorating the wealthy and significant occasion of the Lithuanian Tune Pageant, masking the expertise of the Little Lithuania Tune Pageant, in addition to the good contribution of the Klaipėda area to the general growth of Lithuanian tradition and particularly the historical past of the Tune Pageant.

At present we have fun the honorable a hundredth anniversary of the Lithuanian Tune Pageant. Subsequently, this 12 months’s Western Lithuanian Tune Pageant can be devoted to celebrating this necessary date.

We will rightfully be proud that the event of the musical tradition of Little Lithuania, and the Klaipėda area, has made a major contribution to the historical past of Lithuanian Tune Festivals. In any case, a lot earlier, the primary track pageant was held in Klaipėda in 1869. Thus, track festivals on this area didn’t seem out of nowhere. Let’s additionally keep in mind the celebrations on Rambynos mountain, organized by Vydūnas. And people track festivals that had been organized within the cities of this area. They grew right into a common pageant of Lithuanian songs of Little Lithuania. The primary, again on June 6, 1927. was held in Klaipėda. Due to the concerted efforts of Vydūnas, Antanas Vaičiūnas, Adams Brak, different Lithuanian luminaries and the regional Directorate, the Vacation has change into an unprecedented manifestation of the non secular tradition and nationwide vitality of all Lithuanians.

Vydūnas, a Lithuanian thinker, author, cultural and public determine of Little Lithuania, wrote meaningfully about track festivals. In 1927, when he began the primary Lithuanian Tune Pageant of Little Lithuania, he stated: “To have fun is to sing from the depths of your soul, it means to convey your voice, that’s, your humanity, to the world…”.

At present, the age throws us large challenges, unsolicited aggressors are knocking once more, weapons are clanging, they’re shedding the blood of our fraternal nation – the Ukrainians, evil forces are once more attacking the nation, man, freedom. We see this with nice concern and anxiousness. I’ve repeatedly stated that our nation’s power and resistance to evil is nationwide self-awareness, nationwide spirit, nationwide tradition and love for our nation, let’s domesticate it in ourselves.

That is our dwelling, that is our power!

So we’re celebrating the honorable a hundredth anniversary of the Lithuanian Tune Pageant. We’re additionally happy with the truth that town of Klaipėda was and is likely one of the best bastions of protection and nurturing of the values ​​and traditions of the Tune Pageant, constructing bridges to the long run, to the way forward for all of us, with its wealthy previous and current!

The Tune Pageant is a sacred phenomenon of our nation, in addition to a spot, for instance, a church of nationwide and choral tradition, the place Tune Pageant rites and indulgences happen, because the nation’s highest non secular transformation, the place the nation’s identification, approach and being are witnessed and confessed.

The 12 months 2024 is marked by the truth that the occasion of Lithuanian track festivals has been alive for a century. And a part of this occasion is the Western Lithuanian Tune Pageant in Klaipėda.

The occasions of the Tune Pageant will begin already on the eve, in 2024. on June 8, the place dance teams will rehearse on the Summer time live performance stage, and a live performance of the members of the track pageant will likely be held on the Theater Sq.. On the day of the Tune Pageant in 2024 June 9 – already within the morning, rehearsals of choirs and nationwide music orchestras will happen on the stage of Klaipėda summer time live shows, and a good of people artists will welcome the residents and all company on the approaches to the stage. June 9 4:00 p.m. We invite you to the solemn march of the members of the track pageant, which can happen from Atgimimo Sq. and Herkaus Manto St. intersections to the Summer time live performance stage. The Naval Orchestra of the Lithuanian Military, performed by Egidijus Miknius, may even participate within the festive procession.

After the march, at 5:00 p.m. Klaipėda’s summer time live performance stage will host the primary occasion – the Western Lithuanian Tune Pageant devoted to the a hundredth anniversary of the Lithuanian Tune Pageant.

Over 270 creative teams and greater than 6,500 members from throughout Lithuania will take part on this 12 months’s Klaipėda Tune Pageant. We’ll see a large spectrum of creative expression on the celebration, together with choirs, vocal ensembles, orchestras and ensembles of nationwide devices, dance teams, the orchestra of the track pageant – the Lithuanian Military Orchestra, Kapellmeister Main Egidijus Ališauskas.

On behalf of the organizers and organizers of the Tune Pageant and on behalf of the Council of the Klaipėda Metropolis Choir Affiliation “Aukuras”, we sincerely invite all Klaipėda residents and their company, supporters of the pageant, and along with their households, to return to the Tune Pageant of Western Lithuania, let’s be collectively, let’s testify that we’re an exquisite nation , who loves her nation and its wealthy traditions, the traditions of Tune Festivals!

So let’s have fun our Tune Pageant in a significant approach, let’s change into part of its traditions, proudly and proudly, let’s sing from coronary heart to coronary heart, let’s proclaim the nation’s track of life!

Assoc. Algirdas Šumskis
Inventive director and director of the Western Lithuanian Tune Pageant
Chairman of the council of the Klaipėda metropolis choral group “Aukuras”.
Artwork director of Klaipėda College combined choir “Pajūrio aidas”.

PROGRAM
June 8 | Saturday
6:00 p.m. – Live performance of the members of the Tune Pageant within the theater sq.

June 9 | Sunday
10:00 a.m. to eight:00 p.m. – A good of people artists and crafts on the entrances of Klaipėda’s summer time live performance stage

4:00 p.m. to 4:50 p.m. – Ceremonial procession of the members of the pageant by way of the streets of town (from Atgimimo Sq. to the Klaipėda summer time live performance stage)

5:00 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. – The WESTERN LITHUANIA SONG FESTIVAL is devoted to the a hundredth anniversary of the Lithuanian Tune Pageant on the Klaipėda summer time live performance stage

FB Occasion (March): https://www.fb.com/occasions/750734090566802
FB Occasion (Tune Pageant): https://www.fb.com/occasions/193781613817314/

Info: https://www.aukuras.org/renginiai/vlds-2024