On December 23, the actress and director celebrate their 50th birthday Rēzija Kalniņa, so “Klasika” sends greetings with recordings from the poetry and music program “A Moment After Dinner”in the new cultural space “Oratory” sounded on the evening of September 26.
Poetry has always been important to Rēzija Kalniņa. She reads it alone or with friends. This time with a pianist Andrei Osokin The first poetic performance about Latvian strength and at the same time fragility was made, in which miniatures and improvisations of Latvian composers were supplemented with poetry by Dace Micāne-Zālīte from the new collection “Two Suns of Zalktene”.
The program includes recordings from Rēzija Kalniņa and Andrejs Osokins ‘joint performance in the music and drama room “OratoriO” on September 26 this year, when Dace Micāne-Zālīte’s poetry from the collection “Two Suns of Zalktene” was read in Rēzijas reading, but in Andrejs’ interpretation – Jāzeps Vītols, Music by Mediņa, Imants Zemzars, Ādolfs Skulte, Wolfgangs Dārziņš, Pēteris Vasks, Juris Karlsons and Emīls Dārziņš, both in original versions and in arrangements and improvisations.
Rēzija Kalniņa: “This collaboration is inexpressibly creative, because Andrejs himself is very creative, he comes with his own offers. She wrote these poems for ten years, living in America and longing for Latvia. Those two suns mean that you are under one sun, but long for the other… “
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