Mar

22

Labyrinth of musical anthropology - 3: Polar night in the dark (Saami and the other North people)

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Date: March 23, (Tuesday) 6.00 pm.
Locatios: Daržų str. 10, Klaipėda

During the evening we will hear and see Lapland Joike traditions, the traditional music of other latitudes which do not have analogies. One of the few musical anthropology experts, professor at the University of Lithuania, Klaipėda Rimantas Sliužinskas present the other Nordic way of life style and conditions and of the unique polar latitudes colorful nature. Relatively in a very poor Sami language is only about 300 words to describe snow and ice …

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Mar

22

Glowing Violin Passage. Festival “Returns” concert

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Date: March 25, thursday 7.00 pm.
Location: St. Catherines church (Vilnius str. 30, Vilnius)

Soloist: Dalia Stulgytė Schmalenberg (violin, Germany)
Aleksandra Žvirblytė (piano)
St. Christopher Chamber Orchestra. Cunducted Donatas Katkus. (Vilnius city municipality).

The winds of spring bring with them the joyous “Sugrįžimai” (Returns) Festival to Vilnius, carrying on the waves of exuberant passages an appearance by the violin virtuoso and international competition laureate, master of unforgettable interpretations, Dalia Stulgytė Schmalenberg! Aided by the St. Christopher Chamber Orchestra, conducted by Donatas Katkus, and along with pianist Aleksandra Žvirblytė, the soloist will delight all who savour breath-taking flights of fancy, the culture of high art performance and subtle interpretation, with no empty effects.

The program: F. Mendelssohn, S. Barber works.

Tickets price: 20, 25, 30, 40, 50 Lt

Mar

22

La Bonne Chanson. Spring concert in Lithuania

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Date: March 24, wednesday 7.00 pm.
Location: St. Catherine Church (Vilnius str.30, Vilnius).

Soloist MAGALI LEGER (sopran France)
Pianist Michael Levinas (France)

French composer G. Faure - one of the most famous songs writers, who managed to capture not only the spirit of its time, but special unspeakable yearning mood. Fragile his chamber music style eventually became a world recognized musical French standard. For charming duet - sopran Magali Leger and the pianist Michael Levinas is not an easy task to maintain the right mood. However performers achievements in the world scene talks for itself. We can expect, that trip to French musical world, will be really impressive.

The program: G. Fauré, C. Debussy works.

Tickets price: 20, 25, 30, 40, 50 Lt

Mar

19

Symphony Concert “A Landscape of the Eternal City”

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Date: 2010-03-19 | Event starts: 19:00
Venue: Congress Hall (Vilniaus St. 6/16, Vilnius)
Ticket prices: for adults: 20, 30, 35, 40, 50, 70 Lt, for schoolchildren, students, seniors: 20% discount

P. Tchaikovsky. Overture-fantasy “Hamlet”, Op. 67
P. Tchaikovsky. Concerto for violin and orchestra in D-major, Op. 35
O. Respighi. “Rome Fountains” from a trilogy for orchetra
M. Ravel. “Daphnis et Chloe”, Suite No 2

VILHELMAS ČEPINSKIS, violin
Conductor GIORGIO CROCI
Vilhelmas Čepinskis, one of the most talented Lithuanian violinists, will perform tonight. He will play the most beautiful pieces for piano: Tchaikovsky’s Violin Concerto, which has been performed by many legendary violin players. The Italian conductor Giorgio Croci will conduct the orchestra. Lithuanian concert goers know him from “Rigoletto” and “La traviata”. At the concert the conductor will introduce an original picture of the Eternal City, Rome, painted in sounds of music by Respighi, who created in the early-twentieth century, greatlyt admired the city.

2010 March 18 - April 02

It‘s always worth waiting for the spring to come after a deep cold winter for one important reason - Vilnius has a great tradition of swapping homes and parks to the cinema halls where the real cinema feast begins! Therefore, for everyone who is in love with a good quality cinema, together with the 15th Vilnius International Film Festival “Kino Pavasaris”, the real spring will start on March 18th till 2nd of April.
“By counting it’s 15 years anniversary, “Kino Pavasaris” becomes a real synonym and a prophet of the spring each year. Since it’s beginning - the festival has been small, but also had a record number of the viewers, sometimes the way to make it good was complicated, but it always paid off with the sincere compliments received and honourable guests who attended the event. And the most important – 15 years has passed from the very first “Kino Pavasaris” and now we can be proud of the big contribution the festival has made in creating cinema as an intellectual form of entertainment for Lithuanian society”, - Vida Ramaskiene, the director of Vilnius International Film festival is smiling while explaining this.
For those who missed good cinema, the jubilee festival will offer the exceptional feast for gourmets: the main course of the festival will be the newest and most popular films which were appraised by viewers as well as cinema critics all over the world. The lovers of good film in Lithuania will have an unique opportunity to see the winners of “The golden Palm” in Cannes, “The Golden Beer” in Berlin, “The Golden Shell” in San Sebastian and “The Golden Leopard” in Locarno. The desert of this cinema feast is competition program “New Europe – New Names”. The international JURY contained from international film professionals, will make their judgment on the best debut films from the Eastern and Central European countries.

The 2010 festival films:

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Date: 2010-03-17, 18:00
Venue: Vilnius Academy of Arts - Design Innovations Centre, lecture hall No. 112 (Maironio St. 3, Vilnius)
Ticket prices: free admission

The public book presentation event:
Experiencing Vilnius insider and outsider perspectives

Participants:
The Book Authors - Victor de Munck (assoc. prof. The State University of New York, New Paltz), Rasa Antanavičiūtė (phd. student, The Art Academy, Vilnius), Linas Svolkinas (free lancer anthropologist),

The Critics - Renatas Delis (phd. Student VDU), Alan Freeman (prof. ISM)

Experiencing Vilnius is the book where insiders (represented by two Lithuanian authors of different social background) and outsiders (represented by two American authors) meet and engage in a multicultural dialog on social and economic changes taking place in Lithuania. Authors do not tackle head on the global impact of Lithuania and other Eastern European countries entering the NATO and EU. Instead, in their scrutiny of social changes authors adopt ethnographic methods and address truly casual experiences of everyday life of common people in Vilnius. It must be stated that the book has an academic agenda and authors try to grasp the processes of othering, or how foreigners and Lithuanians negotiate their differences and similarities. But sophisticated academic discussions are well hidden behind an experimental attempt to construct a truly anthropological novel.
A short description of the event The Experiencing Vilnius: Insider and Outsider Perspectives book presentation event is a public seminar discussion. The event will include three mini-sessions. The first session is for the authors to present and discuss the main idea of the book, the practical experiences of writing book, and the academic relevance. During the second session the audience will have an opportunity to listen to what non-authors think about ideas presented in the book. Each panel speaker will have 10-15 minutes to talk. Presentations will be held in both English. During the third session, the audience will have an opportunity to participate in the public discussion. The discussion will be held in both Lithuanian and English. In the end participants will have an opportunity to socialize and to enjoy a glass of wine and some snacks.

Latvian airline airBaltic carried overall 186,512 passengers in February 2010 (from Riga, Vilnius and Tallinn), representing 27% more than in the same month in 2009, when airBaltic transported 147,425 passengers. In February of this year, the number of passengers at the base of airBaltic in Riga has increased by 33% compared to the same period last year.
During the first two months of 2010, airBaltic transported a total of 385,597 passengers, or 29% more than during the same period in 2009, when the total number of passengers was 324,622.
In February, airBaltic operated 3,565 flights, or 29% more than the 2,770 flights of February 2009. Between January and the end of February, the airline provided 7,576 flights in all.
The airline’s load factor, which represents the number of passengers as a proportion of the number of available seats, in February 2010 was at a level of 61%, or 1% point less than in February 2009. During the first two months of 2009 airline’s load factor was at a level of 59%.
Despite bad weather conditions and transport-related strikes across Europe last month, the 15-minute flight punctuality indicator for airBaltic was at a level of 86.6% in February 2010. This means that more than 86 of every 100 airBaltic flights in February departed at the planned time or with a delay of no more than 15 minutes.