Le Grand Macabre With Slovak Philharmonic Choir
The Slovak Philharmonic Choir can be seen in Vienna in the opera „Grand Macabre“ by Gyorgy Ligeti. The prestigious Vienna State Opera is staging the piece on Friday, 20, Sunday, 22, and Wednesday, 25 March. Slovak Philharmonic Choir was established 80 years ago. In Vienna, it performed for the first time in 1989.
Film music and Mahler in Slovak Phil, Slovak Phil in Vienna
On Friday, 20th, and Saturday, 21st March, Slovak Philharmonic Orchestra will present film music in a series of special concerts. The show starts with Alfred Newman’s 20th Century Fox. The Magnificent Seven, Jaws, Dances with Wolves, Titanic, Mission Impossible are just a few of the famous tunes to be heard in Reduta building in Bratislava. A week later, on Thursday and Friday, 26 and 27 March, Slovak Phil will perform Mahler’s 9th Symphony in Bratislava under the baton of a world acclaimed Slovak star conductor Juraj Valčuha who serves currently as the music director of Houston Symphony, one of the best American orchestras.
Turning Defunding into Solidarity: Join the Creative Sabotage Workshop
On Tuesday, 24 March, Creative Sabotage, a workshop led by Zsu Zuro, will take place at the tranzit.sk gallery in Bratislava.
As the curators note, this three-hour collaborative seminar functions as a laboratory for cultural resistance. The systematic defunding of culture across Eastern Europe is presented as a deliberate tactic to neutralise its critical edge. The event will examine populist threats to the European arts scene and ask: how can institutional abandonment be transformed into radical solidarity?
The workshop will be held in English as part of the Revolting with Care project, conceived by Zuzana Révészová (Spolka) and organised in collaboration with Judit Angel and tranzit.sk.
Authentic „Ornament“ in Pezinok offers more than visual beauty
Museums in Pezinok and Čadca, one in southern, the other one in northern part of western Slovakia, joined in a project to be seen in Pezinok, close to Bratislava. Original exhibition titled „Ornament“ is presenting it in differenet materials and symbolic meanings. It is mapping not only common archaic elements and symbols but also different regional very specific details. Ornament has not been a purely esthetic matter but it also served as an expression of the social status not speaking about faith in its magical powers. The selection of authentic ornaments is on display in Malokarpatské museum in Pezinok until the end of August.
Experimental Music Legends Joined in Common Project
On Thursday, 26 March, composers Martin Burlas and Peter Zagar will present their common project „Dorminal“. Easy listening doom“ on 26 March, Pistori palace in Bratislava. Martin Burlas is a legend in the genre of alternative and experimental classical music. Peter Zagar is known not only for his compositions but also as a radio music editor and member of several ensembles.
