The Sunrise concert by the world-famous organist Iveta Apkalna by the sea, which will take place on July 30 at this year’s festival, has already become a tradition at the Jurmala Festival. 7.00 on the Amber beach. The unusual event gathered hundreds of listeners for two years in a row and provided an unforgettable experience of listening to music, the sounds of nature merging with the royal organ pillars and Iveta Apkalna’s wonderful organ playing.
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As the organizers of the festival informed, this time, as the sun rises, the majestic timeliness of Johann Sebastian Bach’s music and the compositions of the American minimalist Philip Glass will sound, in which the energy of life and the infinity of time pulsate. Iveta Apkalna will perform the closing of Glasha’s opera “Satyagraha” (translated from Sanskrit “power of truth”), dedicated to Mahatma Gandhi, leader of the Indian Independence Movement, and the meditative composition “Mad Rush” written by Philip Glas on the Dalai Lama’s first visit to the North America in 1979. . The customers were asked to create music that could be played indefinitely, as the organizers of the visit anticipated that the Dalai Lama’s arrival at the venue could be delayed. A similar atmosphere of infinity is created by Glas’ Music in Contrary Motion – an opus that never ends, but only stops for a moment.
From Johann Sebastian Bach’s creative program, there will be a sacred light-filled Fantasy for the organ in Solmajor, the remestor of the chrestomathy Tokat and the fugue, and Richekar in the dominator of “Musical Dedications” – a polyphonic masterpiece in which Bach’s genius entails a sacred dimension. The concert will be performed with the energetic “Sinfonia” from Bach’s “Ratswahlkantate” or “Cantata for the inauguration of the city”.
The seventh “Jurmala Festival” in Dzintari Concert Hall with five gorgeous concerts will take place from July 27 to 31. The honorary artist of the festival is opera singer Aleksandrs Antoņenko together with Raimonds Pauls, Ksenijs Sidorovs, Iveta Apkalns, Zandas Švēde, Intars Busulis, Daumants Kalniņš, Dinārs Rudāns, Latvian Radio Big Band, “Sinfonietta Rīga” and the Latvian National Symphony Orchestra other artists will take care of an unforgettable summer musical adventure in Dzintari Concert Hall, which this year celebrates its 85th anniversary.
Visitors to the “Jurmala Festival” concerts will have to present an interoperable vaccination or Covid-19 disease certificate, as well as an identity document. The rules also apply to children.
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