A different tourist ride. On a barge sailing in the river mouth of the Sava and the Danube, young pianists with a long BELEF tradition, Pavlović and Lončar, will perform the minimalist/crossover classic of the Dutch composer Simeon Ten Holt "Canto Ostinato", with a guest appearance of Lazar Čolović on marimba.

Simeon Ten Holt, a great name of the Dutch contemporary music of the 20th century, was born in Bergen in 1923. He studied the piano and theory, but he conflicted with academic boundaries very early, which resulted in studying of the relationship between tonal and atonal in a specific expression, which he named "diagonal" and which would mark his first works that made him famous (Diagonaalsuite (1957), Diagonaalsonate (1959) and Diagonaalmuziek (1956-1958)).

After straying into serialism, electronic and different forms of the social engagement, at the beginning of the seventies Ten Holt returned to his primal expression – the piano, developing a strong physical relationship with its sound: "My hands understand what my thoughts cannot. I trust my hands, because they keep me in the dark in which I taste the reality as a nebula, a sensory impression". The crown of this phase is "Canto Ostinato", which was formed as an open work between 1976 and 1979, as a piece for an undefined number of musicians, with an undetermined length and a free number of repetition of its parts. Freedom given to musicians represents undoubtedly a great responsibility towards the final result, but also a source of a specific energy that public performances of this piece posses. "Canto Ostinato" is the highlight of Ten Holt’s expression on a verge of the repetitive music, where the tonality and repetition evoke new aesthetics: "tonality after the death of tonality".

"My compositions take shapes without a premeditated plan, and as such they represent a reflection of the quest for an unknown goal. A lot of time, patience and discipline are necessary to make a certain productive code that will define a shape, structure, length, orchestration. This process requires toilsome work, because the perception of the mentioned code is disturbed all the time by the human imperfection and individual will, being totally dependant on the moment of purity and vitality. And than, the work is washed and polished by the sea, and crystallized by the time." Simeon Ten Holt (1995).