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Saturday, June 2nd, XXIII Pazaislis Music Festival Opens
05/31/2018

For the third year in a row Pazaislis Music Festival together with the Kazickas Family Foundation introduce "The Sounding Stories" of unique carillon music. Well known Lithuanian carillonists will perform at the festival this summer as well.

 


06 02   4pm

The Yard of Vytautas Magnus War Museum

XXIII Pazaislis Music Festival dedicated to Restored Lithuania 100 will open with the music of the Freedom Bell - casted in Philadelphia and in 1922 given as a gift to Kaunas by Lithuanian emigrants as a symbol of freedom to free nation. Well known carillonist, playing bells since 1983, Julius Vilnonis will perform on Kaunas carillon. Works of composers from Lithuania, as well as other countries will intertwine with folk song metamorphosis. Let the prelude to the XXIII Pazaislis Festival be a motto to another hundred years of our Homeland - Sound, the Bell of Freedom!

Music by Viktoras Kuprevicius, Giedrius Kuprevicius, Vidmantas Bartulis, Julius Vilnonis, Ennio Morricone, John Cage, Stanley Myers and Johann Sebastian Bach.

 

06 15   8pm

Church of St. Philip and St. Jacob in Vilnius

 

06 16   4pm

The Yard of Vytautas Magnus War Museum - "The Sounding Stories"

CHRISTIAAN WINTER (carillon, organ, the Netherlands)

Joseph J. Visser (composer, the Netherlands)

 

06 17   11am

Church of the Holy Virgin Mary  Queen of Martyrs in Elektrenai - "The Sounding Stories"

CHRISTIAAN WINTER (carillon, organ, the Netherlands)

Joseph J. Visser (composer, the Netherlands)

Music by: Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck, Albert De Klerk, Willem De Fesch, Boedijn en Winter, Baliys Dvarionas, Anthoni van Noordt, Hendrik Andriessen, Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy, Johann Gottfried Walther, Dietrich Buxtehude, William Byrd

 

07 06   8pm

Gelgaudiskis Manor

GIEDRIUS KUPREVICIUS (carillon)

Paraphrases on the Lithuanian folk songs, improvisations

 

07 21   4pm

The Yard of Vytautas Magnus War Museum - "The Sounding Stories"

AUSTEJA STANIUNAITYTE (carillon)

RAIMUNDAS EIMONTAS (carillon)

Music by: Johann Sebastian Bach, Wilhelm Bender, Peter Langberg, Mikalojus Konstantinas Ciurlionii, Balys Dvarionas, Isaac Albéniz, Manuel de Falla, Raimundas Eimontas, Philip Glass, Bronius Kutavicius, Geert D‘Hollander

 

08 17   8pm

The Yard of Museum of Clocks in Klaipeda - "The Sounding Stories"

AUKE DE BOER (carillon, the Netherlands)

GIJSBERT KOK (carillon, the Netherlands)

 

08 18   4pm

The Yard of Vytautas Magnus War Museum - "The Sounding Stories"

AUKE DE BOER (carillon, the Netherlands)

GIJSBERT KOK (carillon, the Netherlands)

Concert program includes pieces by Lithuanian and Dutch composers of different epochs written and arranged for the carillon

 

Entrance to all concerts is free 

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