She said that the best idea of the artistic concept and creative team had been selected in two rounds of the competition, which will ensure the preparation and implementation of the event of the 150th anniversary of the Song Festival tradition – the Choir Grand Concert.
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The task of the competition was set by the organizer of the General Latvian Song and Dance Festival, LNKC, to create the artistic concept of the Choir Grand Concert, including artistic, directional and scenographic ideas, as well as at least half of the concert repertoire under the theme “Song Festival 150. Tradition”.
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The organizer of the festival received five offers of artistic concepts. In the first round of the competition, a competition commission established by LNKC evaluated the applications in accordance with the evaluation criteria of the regulations, maintaining the anonymity of the applicants. The candidates invited to the second round of the competition met in a negotiated procedure. During it, the performance of the applicants was evaluated by presenting the content of the application.
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The Commission decided to award the contract to the tenderer with the motto “T131219327” indicated in the tender.
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The composition of the creative group consists of its artistic directors Ārijs Šķepasts and Kaspars Ādamsons, director Juris Jonelis, set designer Ivars Mailītis and playwright Matīss Gricmanis.
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Kazlauskiene pointed out that the artistic concept created by the winners, entitled “Pure. The Way of Songs”, highlights the concept of virtue, which means the courage to seek new horizons.
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“We intend that the Song Hill will become a field. There are no trails in it, only the symmetrical squares of the furrows. People will gather in the field to sow songs.”
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It is planned that the cornerstone of the Choir’s big concert will be folk song arrangements and original compositions in which the composers are inspired by folk songs.
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The competition commission consisted of its chairman Jāzeps Vītols Rector of the Latvian Academy of Music (JVLMA), professor Guntars Prānis and members of the commission – artistic director of the State Academic Choir “Latvija”, JVLMA associate professor Māris Sirmais, chairman of the Song and Dance Festival Council, Cēsis choir district JVLMA Assistant Professor Mārtiņš Klišāns, Chief Conductor of Riga City Women’s Choir and Ogre Choir District, JVLMA Professor Aira Birziņa, Chairman of the XXVII General Latvian Song and XVII Dance Festival Artistic Council, Chief Conductor of Riga City and Tukums Choir District, JVLMA Associate Professor E poet, translator Ingmara Balode.
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The creative team will continue their work, and at this year’s autumn seminar, Latvian and diaspora amateur choir conductors will be introduced to the artistic concept and repertoire. Thus, the large choir of the Song and Dance Festival will start preparations for the Song and Dance Festival of 2023, the LNKC representative pointed out.
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The competition “Artistic Concept of the XXVII General Latvian Song and XVII Dance Festival Choir Grand Concert” was announced by LNKC on January 17, 2020, the deadline for submission of competition applications was May 11.
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