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For composer Felikas Bajoras, the music itself, its poetic origin, is more important than the stories created about it. According to him, the meaning of a piece of music is given only by a free, non-predetermined interpretation, which allows both the performer and the listener to feel the music here and now, each time perceiving it in own unique way.

“Music is not a set of sounds, not beautiful gestures, it is thoughts that the performer has to present as his own,” is how Bajoras, who is celebrating his 90th birthday, describes music. Two world premieres will take place – these works have been entrusted to the Lithuanian National Symphony Orchestra and the renowned Polish violinist Janusz Wawrowski, who plays Antonio Stradivari violin. The already familiar composition Viltys (Promise, 2007) has been hailed by the influential British music critic, composer and promoter of contemporary music David Wordsworth as one of the most interesting works for accordion. The composition will be performed by Tadas Motiečius, probably the most active Lithuanian accordionist. 

The concert will be crowned by the oratorio Po šituo stogu (Under This Dome, 2005) – the composer’s dedication to his childhood town Anykščiai, arranged from various poems and thoughts by Antanas Baranauskas about nature, the human spirit, God, the Holy Spirit, and the Lithuania that has been here for centuries.

A sequence of four different compositions by Bajoras, celebrating his solid anniversary, invites to listen, hear, feel and create one’s own, individual musical stories.