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The Days of Mokranjac 2012
14/09/2012 - 20/09/2012
The oldest festival of choral music in Serbia, dedicated to the famous Serbian composer and conductor Stevan Stojanovic Mokranjac (1856-1914), is being held for the 47th time from 14th to 20th September in Negotin.
Mokranjac’s birth house in Negotin The festival opens on Friday the 14th in Mokranjac’s birth house, and the opening oration will be performed by the youngest Serbian academician and the most performed contemporary Serbian composer – Isidora-Žebeljan.
After that, we’ll see the opening if the “Sava Šumanović” exhibition in the galery of the Cultural Center and the contest of choirs from Serbia, Croatia, Macedonia and Slovenia.
On the second day of the festival, after the opening of a painting exhibition in the gallery of the Culture Center at 19 h, the “Salutaris” choir from Belarus will perform. They won the last year’s festival contest of choirs. At 22h in the Music Pavilion, the visitors will enjoy the music of Belgrade Jazz Trio with guests.
On Sunday, September 16, in the Church of the Holy Trinity, this temple’s choirs will perform the Holy Liturgy, while in the church of the Holy Trinity in Mokranje, starting at 11h, the female chamber choir of the „Mokranjac” musical school will perform.
In the evening, the festival returns to the Cultural Center with two ballets: The Ballad of the Moon and A Valet’s Broom.
The Days of Mokranjac On the fourth day of the festival starting from 20h, The Brodsky Quartet from London and Isidora Žebljan will perform in the Cultural Center.
On Tuesday, September 18, the Montenegrin violinist and maestro of the London Symphony Orchestra, Roman Simovic, will perform starting at 20h.
This year on the Days of Mokranjac festival, Wednesday is reserved for The Double Bass Ensemble BASS CHOURS and the Novi Sad Big band that combines pop and jazz music.
On the last day of the festival, the performance of the Mokranjac String Quartet starts at 19h on the small stage of the „Krajina“ Cinema of 19 h, , while “The Saint Prince Lazar’s Passion” by the composer Rajko Maksimović will be performed at 21h in the Cultural Center.
