Celebrating
Belgrade, March 18th 2009 (100 years of birth)
FIRST CONCERT OF LJUBICA MARIĆ’S CHAMBER MUSIC
Belgrade Philharmonics Hall
Program: LJUBICA MARIĆ’S COMPOSITIONS 1929 – 1976
(Sonata Fantasy, Wind Quintet, Three Preludes and Etude, Song and Dance, Branko’s Round Dance, Verses from The Mountain Wreath, A Song for Flute, The Enchantress, Sonata for Violin and Piano)
Performers: Julija Hartig, violin; Natalija Mladenović, piano; Aneta Ilić, soprano; Lidija Stanković, piano; Vasa Stajkić, baritone; Neda Arsenijević, flute; Borislav Čičovački, oboe; Aleksandar Tasić, clarinet; Milan Roksandić, English horn; Ivan Jotić, fagot
March 19th 2009 – Concert of Chamber Music in Kragujevac
September 15th 2009 – Concert of chamber music within the Festival Mokranjac’s Days in Negotin
October 6th 2009 – 41st BEMUS
Concert of Ljubica Marić’s Symphony Music
Kolarac Hall
ORCHESTRA AND CHOIR OF SERBIAN RADIO AND TELEVISION
Conductor Premil Petrović
Lidija Bizjak, piano
(Octoïcha 1; Byzantine Concerto; Lament, Pastoral and Hymn; Songs of Space)
Friday, October 30th 2009 at 4.00 pm – Belgrade Book Fair, “Slobodan Selenić” Hall
Promotion of the book “Zapisi” (“Scripts”) by Ljubica Marić, Jugokoncert and “Arhipelag” Publishing House
NOVEMBER PROGRAM OF THE CENTRAL PART OF CELEBRATION
Wednesday, November 4th 2009
12.00 am uncovering of the commemorative plaque at Džordža Vašingtona Street Nr 36 (by Dejan Despić, member of the Serbian Academy of Arts and Sciences)
7.00 pm Gallery of the Serbian Academy of Arts and Sciences, opening of the exhibition Ljubica Marić: …secret / silence / creation… (Minister of culture Nebojša Bradić)
As a part of the 100 years of birth celebration of the composer Ljubica Marić, Serbian Academy for Arts and Sciences and Musicological Institute organize an exhibition at the gallery of this institution entitled Ljubica Marić: …secret / silence / creation…. The artist will be presented on this exhibition with numerous facts regarding life and work, based predominantly on the unknown material, but with the creative and communicative attitude towards the audience, with the possibility to listen to her compositions using audio devices, as well as to watch adaptations of TV movies made for her music, her interviews in various media, and to get to know her poetry and objects of visual art. The author of this exhibition is PhD Melita Milin, science counselor at the Musicology Institute of Serbian Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the authors of the display are Milan Janić, designer, and Nenad Marković, set designer. The speakers at the opening of the exhibition are Minister of Culture of the Republic if Serbia, Mr. Nebojša Bradić, and Mrs Melita Milin. The excerpts from Ljubica Marić’s poetic work reads Mrs. Dara Čalenić, actress and her friend.
8.30 pm, Gallery of Serbian Academy of Arts and Sciences, second concert of chamber music
From Invocation to Torso – Ljubica Marić’s compositions from 1983 to 1996
Invocation, for double bass and piano – Goran Kostić, double bass, Natalija Mladenović, piano
Monodia Octoïcha, for cello solo – Ksenija Janković, cello
From the Darkness Chanting, recitative cantata for mezzo-soprano and piano – Margriet van Reisen, mezzo-soprano and Lidija Stanković, piano
The Wondrous Milligram, for flute and soprano – Eleonore Pameijer, flute and Aneta Ilić, soprano
Archaia, for string trio – Julija Hartig, violin, Jožef Bisak, viola, Aleksandar Latković, cello
Archaia 2, for wind trio – Borislav Čičovački, oboe, Aleksandar Tasić, clarinet, Ivan Jotić, bassoon
Torso, for piano trio – Ksenija Janković, cello, Julija Hartig, violin, Natalija Mladenović, piano
Excerpts from Ljubica Marić’s Tables and Scripts reads Nebojša Dugalić
Thursday, November 5th
5.00 pm Conference Hall of Serbian Academy of Arts and Sciences, Opening of the international conference: Spaces of Modernism: Ljubica Marić’s opus in the context of the music of her time
(academician Dimitrije Stefanović, PhD Danica Petrović)
The International Scientific Conference under the title Spaces of Modernism: Ljubica Marić’s opus in the context of the music of her time organized by the Musicology Institute and the Department for Fine Arts and Music of the Serbian Academy of Arts and Sciences in cooperation with UNESCO, will be held on November 5th to 7th 2009. In this event will participate 16 Serbian and 12 foreign musicologists. Working languages are Serbian and English. The participants are top Serbian and foreign researchers, and according to the received works and excerpts, Ljubica Marić’s opus will be perceived versatily and innovatively. With the special anticipation is expected the premiere of composer’s newly found miniature for flute, planned for the first day of the conference. The conference will be opened at the hall of the Serbian Academy of Arts and Sciences by the academician Dimitrije Stefanović, the president of Organization Committee, and PhD Danica Petrović, head of the Musicology Institute.
8.30 pm Belgrade City Hall, Concert of the Žebeljan Orchestra
Compositions of Ljubica Marić and her Dutch friends (Isidora Žebeljan)
Soloists: Margiet van Reisen, mezzo-soprano; Julija Hartig, violin; Eleonore Pameijer, flute; Aleksandar Tasić, clarinet; Aneta Ilić, soprano; Lidija Stanković, piano; Milana Zarić, harp; Nebojša Dugalić, actor
Conductor: Isidora Žebeljan
Ljubica Marić: Ostinato super thema Octoïcha, for piano, harp and string orchestra
Asimptota, for violin and string orchestra
Guillaume Landré (1905-1968): Four Miniatures according to H. E. for clarinet and strings (Serbian premiere)
Bertus van Lier (1906-1972): A Tfile fun a Ghettojid, for mezzo-soprano and chamber orchestra (Serbian premiere)
Marius Flothuis (1914-2001): Sonata da camera, op. 17, for flute and string orchestra (orchestration Draško Adžić – world premiere of the version with string orchestra)
Ljubica Marić: The Threshold of Dream, chamber cantata for soprano, mezzo-soprano, actor and chamber orchestra)
Žebeljan Orchestra:
violins - Goran Uzelac (concertmaster), Madlen Stokić Vasiljević, Katarina Tešenji, Ana Boričić, Dušica Mladenović, Sofija Krsteska, Eleonora Nikolić
violas - Boris Brezovac, Nataša Stanojević, Jožef Bisak
cellos – Dejan Božić, Srđan Sretenović
double bass – Goran Kostić
flute – Milica Živanić
clarinet i bas-clarinet – Aleksandar Tasić
bassoon – Ivan Jotić
English horn – Milan Roksandić
trumpet – Vladimir Jovanović
harp – Milana Zarić
Conductor: Isidora Žebeljan
Actor: Nebojša Dugalić
Friday, November 6th 2009
8.30 City Hall, The third concert of chamber music
Chamber Music inspired by Octoïchos in 20th and 21st century
Dimitri Terzakis (1938): Octoïchos, for chamber orchestra (Serbian premiere)
Aleksandar Tasić, clarinet; Ivan Jotić, bassoon; Milan Roksandić, English horn; Mirjana Nešković, violin; Dušica Mladenović, violin; Jožef Bisak, viola; Aleksandar Latković, cello; Boban Stošić, double bass; conductor: Premil Petrović
John Tavener (1944): Excerpts from the cycle Epistle of Love, for soprano and piano
(I Into Beauty, III Epistle of Love, VI Absolved in the Mirror, VII Echo)
Aneta Ilić, soprano i Lidija Stanković, piano
Mirjana Živković (1935): Voices, piano suite – Dejan Subotić
Arvo Pärt (1935): Summa, for vocal quartet (Serbian premiere)
Jasmina Stojković, soprano; Jovana Jovićević, alto; Bojan Bulatović, tenor; Miloš Gašić, bass
Ivana Stefanović (1948): Dušan’s Law, music for TV drama, op. 10, for old instruments (first concert performance)
Ensemble Renaissance
Alfred Schnittke (1934-1998): Third Hymn from the cycle Hymns, for cello, bassoon, harpsichord and bells
Aleksandar Latković, cello; Ivan Jotić, bassoon; Dejan Subotić, harpsichord; Aleksandar Radulović, bells
Vuk Kulenović (1946): Two movements from Sonata for piano nr. 4 - Lidija Stanković
Draško Adžić (1979): Of Herbs and Darkness, litany for four musicians (premiere)
Dušica Mladenović, violin; Jožef Bisak, viola; Dejan Subotić, piano; Aleksandar Radulović, percussions
Juri Bucko (1938): Thirtenth Contrapunct from the Polyphony Concert, for organ, piano and celesta (Serbian premiere)
Tea Andrijić, piano; Marija Družijanić and Luka Čubrilo, keyboards; Dejan Subotić, celesta
Ljubica Marić (1909- 2003): Pastorale, from the oratorioThe Letter of Light, for vocal quartet and chamber ensemble (redaction by Mirjana Živković)
Jasmina Stojković, soprano; Jovana Jovićević, alto; Bojan Bulatović, tenor; Miloš Gašić, bass; Aleksandar Ružičić, piccolo flute; Aleksandar Tasić, clarinet; Milan Roksandić, English horn; Lidija Stanković, piano; Milana Zarić, harp; Mirjana Nešković, violin; Dušica Mladenović, violin; conductor: Premil Petrović
Monday, November 16 th 2009
Amsterdam, Uilenburger Synagoge at 8.15 pm
Second performance of the Belgrade concert Compositions of Ljubica Marić and her Dutch friends
