Songs for Earth and Heaven

Performers:
LITHUANIAN CHAMBER ORCHESTRA
(artistic director and conductor Sergej Krylov)
Girls’ Choir of Vilnius choir singing school LIEPAITĖS
(director Jolita Vaitkevičienė)
With the participation of EGLĖ KASTECKAITĖ (piano) and TOMAS KULIKAUSKAS (percussion)
Conductors: KAROLIS VARIAKOJIS, JOLITA VAITKEVIČIENĖ

Programme:
FAUSTAS LATĖNAS – Bolero (arrangement by Tomas Petrikis)
FRANK TICHELI – Earth Song
OSVALDAS BALAKAUSKAS – Five Songs (text by Vincas Mykolaitis-Putinas)
DAMIJAN MOČNIK – Missa Sancti Francisci Assisiensis

“This fragile time of our existence that we are living in brings us back to the reflection of primordial values: to stand on the ground, to look at the sky and to dream is simply the gift of being.

What words of comfort can you find for an acquaintance from the Ukraine who has left her land behind and who looks every day at the reports of air threats from the skies above her surviving relatives? Maybe just to be next to her, to listen to the restless heartbeats like the drums of Slovenian composer Damijan Močnik’s Missa Sancti Francisci Assisiensis, to enjoy the refreshing harmony of Osvaldas Balakauskas’ Five Songs enriched by the graceful rhymes of Vincas Mykolaitis-Putinas. As well as to say softly, as in the American composer Frank Ticheli’s Earth Song: sing, be, live!”