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- Title
Robertas Varnas - išeivijos muzikinės kultūros puoselėtojas.
- Authors
PETRAUSKAITĖ, Danutė
- Abstract
During the Soviet era, the works of Lithuanian diaspora composers were ignored and belittled. It was only in the late 1980s, with the beginning of political change and the establishment of the Persitvarkymo Sąjūdis (the Reform Movement of Lithuania), that the interest in musicians who had emigrated from Lithuania after WWII emerged. Not all of them lived to see the restoration of independent Lithuania. Jeronimas Kačinskas, recipient of the Lithuanian National Prize, was one of many who was lucky enough to visit his homeland and hear his compositions performed there. Robertas Varnas, choirmaster and educator, contributed greatly to the dissemination of his works. The purpose of this article is: a) to reveal Varnas's efforts to integrate Kačinskas's musical heritage into Lithuanian culture through his letters sent from Lithuania to the USA, and b) to highlight the political and cultural processes that took place at the turn of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. The main research methods were analysis of archival sources and literature and chronological consistency.
- Subjects
LITHUANIA; LITERARY sources; ARCHIVAL resources; TWENTY-first century; POLITICAL change; CHORAL conductors
- Publication
Musicology of Lithuania / Lietuvos muzikologija, 2021, Issue 22, p174
- ISSN
1392-9313
- Publication type
Article