The jubilee music pageant “That the forest is inexperienced” started in Kaunas: 1000’s of spectators gathered Tradition

The start of the celebration was symbolized by the altar lit by Saulius Liaus, director of the Lithuanian Nationwide Cultural Middle.

“Standing right here in the present day, I actually really feel that right here in Kaunas, within the Valley of Songs, there’s at present the very best doable focus of togetherness and optimism. We’re a particular nation. We’re those who do not destroy, however construct, who do not rob, however defend, who’re unstoppable, unsilenced, who’ve the best sense of optimism,” Minister of Tradition Simonas Kairys congratulated the members of the celebration.

Erikos Ovčarenko/BNS photograph/Kaunas Track Pageant

He offered the inventive director of the Kaunas Track Pageant and the coordinator of the Track Day, choir conductor Danguola Beinaryta with the very best honorary award of the Ministry of Tradition “Carry your mild and consider”.

Kaunas Mayor Visvaldas Matijošaitis additionally congratulated D. Beinarytė on the statue of Vytis, he wished the gathered those that Kaunas would ring and the oaks would rustle.

Erikos Ovčarenko/BNS photograph/Kaunas Track Pageant

“Right now, Kaunas offered a giant and delightful reward to the entire of Lithuania. The newly reborn, great Valley of Songs, which the individuals of Kaunas could be pleased with,” mentioned the mayor

About 3.5 thousand individuals take part within the Day of Songs in Kaunas. choristers and dancers from 80 collectives, in addition to friends from Latvia and Estonia.

About 10,000 persons are anticipated within the Valley of Songs. spectators, the town municipality advisable them to reach on the occasion by public transport or on foot at the very least an hour and a half earlier than.

Till 23:00 solely residents and pageant members are allowed to enter Perkūnos aleja from Parodas kalnos. Extra trolleybus and bus routes are organized earlier than and after the occasion.

As introduced by the organizers, the “Forests are inexperienced” program was impressed by the chief conductors of the primary Track Pageant, composers Juozas Naujalis, Julius Štarkas and Stasios Šimkaus.

The three-hour program consists of 48 numbers of Lithuanian people songs organized for the choir, in addition to standard music written by Lithuanian composers, performances by soloists Linas Adomaitis, Lina Dambrauskaitė, Mariaus Polikaitis and Rasa Serra.

The occasion is organized by the Kaunas Cultural Middle.

The primary Lithuanian Track Pageant was held in August 1924 in Kaunas Petros Vileišios Sq., on the positioning of the present ice enviornment and athletics enviornment. 77 choirs, about 3,000 individuals participated within the occasion known as the Day of Songs. singers and 50 thousand listeners.

“And right here, in Kaunas, a piece of optimism was born – the Track Pageant. A music pageant that was born along with an unbiased state, modernist structure, and goals of the longer term. Lastly, in music we sang our independence, in music we introduced the crumbling of the Iron Curtain. Right now we sing collectively about our custom, about our modernity, lastly about our freedom and uniqueness”, mentioned S. Kairys.

100 years later, the Day of Songs takes place within the newly reconstructed Kaunas Valley of Songs. After the work began within the fall of 2022, the grandstands with benches had been renovated right here, a brand new basis for the dance flooring was poured, dressing and make-up rooms, sanitary models, auxiliary services had been put in underneath the artists’ tribune, and an administrative pavilion with a spot for ticket workplaces was constructed.

On Sunday, the occasions of the anniversary Track Pageant will transfer to the capital, throughout all the pageant, Vilnius is anticipated to host 37,000 individuals. members. In response to the organizers, it is a document variety of members in the previous couple of many years.

Over 2,000 persons are additionally anticipated on the music pageant. world Lithuanians from 21 nations.

Numerous occasions of the celebration will happen subsequent week within the City Corridor and Cathedral Squares, on the foot of Mount Gediminas, the Palace of the Lords, the Kalnai Park Stage, the Nationwide Philharmonic, the Twinsbet Enviornment, and the Lithuanian Soccer Federation Stadium.

On the final day of the pageant, July 6, there shall be a procession of the pageant members from Cathedral Sq. to Vingios Park, the place the jubilee Track Pageant shall be topped with the Day of Songs “Let the reward be inexperienced”.

After Lithuania turned unbiased within the Nineties, the Track Pageant is organized each 4 years originally of July.

20 years in the past, UNESCO declared the music pageant custom of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania a masterpiece of the oral and intangible cultural heritage of humanity.