Follow us on:
Lietuviškai
LATGA-A | IAMIC 
 
   
  Home > Classical / Contemporary > A vision of “Own Bayreuth” in the new CD by Arturas Bumšteinas
 
 
How to get to us

NEWS

2011-02-11

A vision of “Own Bayreuth” in the new CD by Arturas Bumšteinas [Classical / Contemporary]


Last May at the Amsterdam’s finest contemporary art fair Kunstvlaai, Dutch gallery Hotel Maria Kapel has presented a project by Arturas Bumšteinas called “My Own Private Bayreuth”. It has been recently released as an audio CD by the same institution.

 

This project has been initiated just after its author has approached the annual Wagner's Bayreuth Festival in order to purchase ticket to one of their scheduled operas. Instead he was put in a 9-year-long waiting queue (the official letter from Bayreuther Festspiele can be found inside the booklet). Such a manifestation of cultural super-elitism has become an inspiration for this project.

 

The sound material for this CD has been collected during open rehearsal sessions which took place inside the temporary sound studio located in the premises of the art fair. This studio was used to hold meetings with local Dutch musicians and to record their interpretations of various fragments of Richard Wagner’s scores.

 

Currently Arturas Bumšteinas is preparing live concert version of this project.

 

LMIPC inf.

© Lithuanian Music Information and Publishing Centre, A. Mickevičiaus 29, 08117 Vilnius, ph: +370 5 272 69 86. E-mail your questions / comments to info@mic.lt
All texts, photographs, logos, music and artwork are protected by copyright laws. They are free for promotional use but when referring to the materials please mention the author and source whenever it is known. When not specified, the source is the Lithuanian Music Information and Publishing Centre (LMIPC).