Četvrtak, 11.7. 2002.
21:00
ZAVRŠNI KONCERT POLAZNIKA LETNJE ŠKOLE ORGULJA


ORGULJE
Orgulje su usitinu najveci, najsmeliji, najvelicanstveniji instrument koji je ljudski genij ikada izmislio. One u sebi sadrže ceo orkestar. One mogu izraziti sve kao odgovor na vešti dodir. Nisu li one neka vrsta pijedestala na kome se duša sprema za let ka nebu, pokušavajuci da na tom putu otelotvori beskrajan niz slika, da prikaže ljudski život i da predje granicu Beskraja koja razdvaja nebo i zemlju? I što duže sanjar sluša te kolosalne harmonije, sve više shvata da ništa ne može popuniti prostor izmedju ljudi koji klece, i Boga, izuzev tog hora sacinjenog od stotinu glasova. Muzika je tumac dovoljno snažan da uzdigne ljudske molitve na nebesa, molitvu u svojim svemocnim oblicima, molitvu prožetu melanholijom raznolikih duša, obojenu meditativnom ekstazom, koja se iznenada pojavljuje sa impulsom pokajanja, i izmešanu sa bezbrojnim željama svakog kreda. Da. Medju ovim dugim zasvodjenim prolazima, melodije inspirisane božanskim osecajem su izmešane sa nikad ranije znanom velicinom i ovencane novom slavom i snagom. U polutami i dubokoj tišini, koju prekida samo naizmenicno smenjivane pojanja hora i mocne muzike orgulja, tka se veo za Boga, kroz koji prodire sjaj Njegovih obeležja.

Onore de Balzak

ORGULJE U BEOGRADU
Doskora su orgulje za naše sugradane bile gotovo iskljucivo sinonim za službeni crkveni instrument, uprkos poznatoj cinjenici da su mnogi veliki kompozitori neka od svojih najboljih dela stvarili upravo za orgulje. Kratka istorija odnosa naše sredine prema ovom instrumentu kaže da su javna koncertna izvodenja muzike na orguljama zamrla otkako su instrumenti u vlasništvu društvenih institucija bili stavljeni izvan upotrebe. U meduvremenu, školovani orguljaši nisu imali bilo kakvih izgleda da se usavršavaju i oprobaju svoja umeca pred publikom cija je potreba pak za slušanjem ovog instrumenta narastala uprkos njegovom uklanjanju sa javne scene, a možda i proporcionalno intezitetu tog pokušaja depopularizacije orgulja.
Ipak, ova situacija se unekoliko izmenila uvodenjem Dana orgulja i Letnje škole za orguljaše koje vode ugledni majstori iz drugih zemalja, u okviru BELEF-a. Program je startovao na prošlogodišnjem Festivalu, a ovoga leta, ponovo se srecu publika, prošlogodišnji i novi ucesnici u atmosferi oslobodenoj pocetnicke neizvesnosti i iznudene skromnosti, jer ocito je da muzika na orguljama i majstori ovog instrumenta u našoj sredini sticu ravnopravnost sa ostalim izvodacima iz sveta ozbiljne muzike.

9 -12. 7. 2002.
Blessed Virgin Mary Church, Hadži Milentija Street 75
10 - 14, 00 and 16 - 19,00 - Summer Organ School
masterclass: CARLO HÖMMEL

Thursday, 11. 7. 2002.
21:00
THE FINAL CONCERT OF THE SUMMER ORAGAN SCHOOL PARTICIPANTS


THE ORGANS
The Organ is in truth the grandest, the most daring, the most magnificent of all instruments invented by human genius. It is a whole orchestra in itself. It can express anything in response to a skilled touch. Surely it is in some sort a pedestal on which the soul poises for a flight forth into space, essaying on her course to draw picture after picture in an endless series, to paint human life, to cross the Infinite that separates heaven from earth? And the longer a dreamer listens to those giant harmonies, the better he realizes that nothing save this hundred-voiced choir on earth can fill all the space between kneeling men and a God hidden by the blinding light of the sanctuary. The music is the one interpreter strong enough to bear up the prayers of humanity to heaven, prayer in its omnipotent moods, prayer tinged by the melancholy of many different natures, colored by meditative ecstasy, upspringing with the impulse of repentance - blended with the myriad fancies of every creed. Yes. In those long vaulted aisles the melodies inspired by the sense of things divine are blent with a grandeur unknown before, are decked with new glory and might. Out of the dim daylight, and the deep silence broken by the chanting of the choir in response to the thunder of the Organ, a veil is woven for God, and the brightness of His attributes shines through it.

Honore de Balzak

THE ORGANS IN BELGRADE
Belgrade citizens have considered the organ to be an official church instrument for a long time, in spite of the well-known fact that numerous outstanding composers wrote some of their best pieces for this instrument. Brief history about the attitude of our environment towards these instruments tells us that, after having become public property, they were put out of use and all public concert performances on them almost stopped. In the meantime, educated organists did not have any opportunity to perfect themselves and test their skills in front of the audience whose interest in these instruments was increasing gradually in spite of some intensive attempts to diminish their importance and the fact they had been removed from the public scene.
Nevertheless, this situation slightly changed during last year's Belgrade Summer Festival. The Days of Organs and Summer Organ School led by the most prominent foreign organists were included in the programme of the Festival. This summer Belgrade audience will hear again the last year's participants and some new ones in the atmosphere freed from that beginner's uncertainty and forced modesty because it is obvious that organ music and master organ performers are gradually regaining their true positions and are being appreciated equally as other classic musicians by our audience.