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“Without music, life would be a mistake”<\/em> Dear visitors!<\/p>\n A year has gone by and the doors of the concert barn in the Medved homestead are opening again. After last year\u2019s enthusiastic response from public and performers alike, it has become clear that the International music festival \u201cUrsus\u201d is a welcome addition to the musical landscape in central Slovenia. This edition will focus on multinationalism, the mixing of cultural influences and the resulting enrichment of both personal and national cultural identity. Every thing that has meaning to us, requires some effort. It is probably this very effort that makes that certain thing for us meaningful. For a musician it is music; for an audience member, the experience of a concert. The effort required in this case is the journey to Medved homestead in Podkum, which lasts the exact amount of time necessary for one to relax, empty one\u2019s mind and get ready for \u2026<\/p>\n Welcome!<\/p>\n Marko Zupan, <\/p>\n “Without music, life would be a mistake” – Friedrich Nietzsche Dear visitors! A year has gone by and the doors…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/festivalursus.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/294"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/festivalursus.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/festivalursus.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/festivalursus.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/festivalursus.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=294"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"http:\/\/festivalursus.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/294\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1720,"href":"http:\/\/festivalursus.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/294\/revisions\/1720"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/festivalursus.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n– Friedrich Nietzsche<\/p>\n
\nRenowned musicians are coming from many different parts of the world: China, Venezuela, Serbia, Croatia, Italy and Slovenia. Each of them will bring their rich tradition and a specifical individual approach, presenting us with an extremely interesting and diverse programme.
\nThe opening concert features some of the most important composers of the European baroque era. French ballet, Czech musicality, Italian temperament and German counterpoint will complement each other in several compositions for wind instruments. An exotic combination seldom seen in our area: two flutes, a bassoon and a harpsichord.
\nThe Russian master of neoclassicism, Sergey Prokofiev, wrote his musical tale for the central children\u2019s theatre, Moscow, with the intention of \u201ccultivating musical tastes in children from the first years of school.\u201d The music will be accompanied by the illustrations of Teja Ple\u010dnik and the storyteller will be the versatile Nika Vogri\u010d De\u017eman. Children are growing, the intention stays the same.
\nThe final concert will take us on a trip around the world. Japanese painter Hokusai Katsuhika, a self confessed \u201cold man crazy about painting\u201d, is most probably \u201cguilty\u201d of the development of impressionism in France. A century later, the composer Takemitsu dedicated his trio to a great influence of his, Claude Debussy. The wheel goes around. Works by famous Indian sitarist Ravi Shankar, Italian opera giant Giacomo Puccini, modern Spanish composer Manuel Moreno-Buendia and South American flutist\/composer Efraim Oscher will conclude our musical journey where it also began \u2013 in Podkum.<\/p>\n
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