PROMOTION OF THE FESTIVAL ALMANAC

2018-06-29 11:00, Duration 2 h

Museum of Perast

Friday, June 29
Museum of Perast, 11 a.m.

FREE ENTRANCE!


PROMOTION OF THE FESTIVAL ALMANAC
Lirica No. 6

Music Garden of Boka’s Songs, MARIO KATAVIĆ

Discussion of the almanac: Zlata Marjanović, Mario Katavić, and Tina Braić-Ugrinić

The XVII International Klapa Festival Perast, though the issuing of its edition of the book Dalmatian Songs from Boka of Ludvik Cuba (1907) and of its five almanacs of Lirica, continues to preserve the cultural heritage of traditional Boka Kotorska song. In Lirica no. 6, we have published 50 klapa pieces arranged for klapa singing by composer Mario Katavić (Sarajevo), who has for several years been devoted to making arrangements of old records of Boka music that were written and collected by famous melographs Franyo Ksaver Kuhač, Ludvik Kuba, Dionysie de Sarno San Giorgio, Jovan Milosević, Nikola Hercigonja, and Vida Matjan, while also involving the records of Pastrovici and the Budva songs of Zlata Marjanović. Out of over 100 works by Mario Katavić, two are of special interest: Kolo Bokeljske Mornarice (the music and lyrics of traditional dance songs of the ancient Boka Navy), arranged for male klapa and a mixed choir; and there are also traditional honor songs in his musical diadem, spiritual and lyric songs of these parts that are being rescued from the brink of oblivion and presented to new generations of klapa music lovers.

MARIO KATAVIC ( foto Haris Memija).JPG

MARIO KATAVIĆ, a member of the Opera House and Ballet of the National Theater in Sarajevo, is the artistic director of the cult male vocal ensemble Friends, and the founder of the mixed chamber choir Acords at AKCUS Seljo. Since 1992, he has written more than 400 compositions for mixed, male, and female choirs, soloists, and orchestras, most notable among them the famous opera Christmas Night, the oratories Bosnian Te Deum and Bilje Bosna, Allahu Akbar for male choir, timpani and flute, Rukovet from Medjumurje, Victimae Pachali, Misa Prima, and Misa Secunda, as well as numerous stylizations of Ilahi and Bosnian sevdalinkas for mixed choir, and arrangements for orchestra, choirs, and soloists. He has collaborated with the Sarajevo Philharmonic and the Vienna Chamber Orchestra, as well as with many other orchestras, choirs, and soloists in Bosnia and Herzegovina and abroad. He was also awarded the gold medal for amateur work in BiH by the RSKUDBiH. He is officially enlisted as a composer in the Lexical Music of Bosnia and Herzegovina.