19. February
09:45 – 10:30 Carnival of animals, musical and puppet adaptation (co-production with GKL)
11:00 – 11:45 Carnival of animals, musical and puppet adaptation (co-production with GKL)
18:00 – 19:00 Carnival of animals - Sing, dance, play, listen! - Interactive workshop for children
20. February
09:45 – 10:30 Carnival of animals, musical and puppet adaptation (co-production with GKL)
11:00 – 11:45 Carnival of animals, musical and puppet adaptation (co-production with GKL)
18:00 – 19:00 Carnival of animals - Sing, dance, play, listen! - Interactive workshop for children
21. February
10:00 – 11:30 Music workshop "Drum circle" for children and young people
19:30 – 21:00 Leonel Morales & Chamber Orchestra "Tijardović" - Split (concert)
22. February
10:00 – 11:30 Music workshop "Drum circle" for children and young people
18:00 – 19:00 Teta Operetta and Barba Klavalir – Interactive performance for children (4+ years)
special guest: Ante Jekrunica
February 23
19:30 – 21:00 Davor Križić, trumpet & HRT Jazz Orchestra (concert)
CARNIVAL OF ANIMALS
One of the most beloved classical works of all ages, the zoological suite Carnival of Animals by the French composer Camille Saint-Saëns, is the thematic backbone of concert and musical stage performances and music workshops of the Croatian Home Split as part of the Concert Lab program launched with the aim of bringing classical music to children and young people. art. The humorous work of fourteen movements, in which the composer portrays animal and human characters while using parodies and quotes from well-known musical works, is especially close to children and young people due to its non-musical content. The programmatic character suggests who the composer is conjuring up with the music already by the name of the suite and the movements composed like a series of miniatures. The Carnival of Animals has become a repertoire on concert and theater stages around the world, and individual pieces, such as the Swan or the Elephant, are often part of cello and double bass repertoire. In numerous adaptations, this piece of music is combined with poetic or prose texts written especially for individual performances, and it has also served as a background in feature films, documentaries and cartoons, commercials and theater productions.
Musical and puppet adaptation Carnival of Animals (organized sales) – Co-produced by the Croatian House Split and the Split City Puppet Theatre, with text and direction by Siniša Novković, it brings a new vision of the suite in which music merges with other arts. With the acting tools of Justina Vojaković Fingler, Sanja Crljen, Franjo Đaković and Stipe Gugić, with theatrical magic, contributed by costumes by Sonja Obradović, set design, props and puppets by Tina Vukasović Đaković and careful lighting design by Lucijan Roki, they bring to life a concert by pianist Tonči Tranfić. With his refined musical performance of selected movements, audiences of all ages, from kindergarten onwards, are presented with various types of art, theatre and genre acting, with plenty of laughter and fun. The first movement, The Royal March of the Lion, is performed with dramatic acting by the theatre for adults, the Hens and the Rooster served as an ideal training ground for children's theatre, and Antelopes (fast animals) bring physical, or contemporary theatre. The Turtles embody opera with a caricatured singing technique and the Ninja Turtles, the Elephants puppetry, with the Aviary shadow theater. The Aquarium takes the audience into the depths of the sea with a projection screen showcasing cinematic art, Fossils presents a musical with dinosaurs, the Swan ballet, while the musical-puppet performance comes to an end with the Finale, which presents the art of comics. Following in the footsteps of the composer himself, who found inspiration in the Old Testament story of Noah's Ark, but in his musical work he humorously portrays animals and people by mocking human vices or imitating animals, using parodies and quotes from famous musical works, this adaptation also reached for contemporary musical quotes with a dramatic expression in a satirical spirit.
Camille Saint-Saëns: Carnival of the Animals, interactive concert (organized sales) – This interactive concert for children and young people is held in co-production with the Split Academy of Arts. An orchestra of about twenty students, led by their professor, experienced conductor Hari Zlodra, performs an integral suite of fourteen movements, as part of which, in a casual atmosphere, students will learn about the characteristics of instruments and orchestras as an ensemble. Although Carnival of the Animals was originally composed for a small chamber orchestra that includes two pianos, two violins, viola, cello, double bass, flute and piccolo flute, clarinet, xylophone and glass accordion, the suite is often performed today in various transcriptions, including one for the entire orchestra. In the performance by the UMAS Orchestra, instrumental reinforcement will feature the string and wind sections, while one pianist will skillfully unite the two piano parts. The glass accordion will be brought to life by two piccolo flutes, the Elephant movement will be performed in unison by four cellos instead of a double bass, while the xylophone will be absent from the performance, but the effect of the clatter of fossil bones from the movement of the same name will gain a new dimension with rich orchestral colors. The conductor will communicate with his orchestra with his hands and baton, while taking the audience on an educational journey and through conversation. He will introduce them to biographical sketches of the composer, the historical circumstances in which the work was created, why Camille Saint-Saëns banned the performance of all movements except the Swan during his lifetime, and what can be expressed through music. For this occasion, the Ivo Tijardović Art Nouveau Hall will be transformed into a classroom with live music in close collaboration with the musicians and the conductor, who invites students to share their impressions, repeat the content they have already learned, and acquire new ones, making himself available for all questions and comments.
Interactive music workshops - Intended for primary school students in grade and subject classes, music pedagogue, musicologist and music critic Karmen Širović moderates the workshops with selected pieces from the Animal Carnival suite, through conversation, singing, body music and dance, accompanied by pianist Tonči Tranfić. The workshop program correlates with the outcomes of the Annual Performance Curriculum for the subject of Musical Culture and cross-curricular topics, and is an ideal opportunity for a music culture lesson or a class teacher's lesson in the field in the appropriate environment of the concert space of the Jakov Gotovac Music Salon.
Carnival of Animals: Sing, Dance, Play, Listen! - is intended for primary school students, in which participants will use their imagination and performers to create an animal kingdom. By actively participating, they will help Noah gather the animals into the ark before the great flood, which inspired Saint-Saëns for this work. With the author's song, they will learn the rules of concert etiquette, and then become active participants and creators of the workshop. The first movement, The Royal March of the Lion, evokes the king of animals through lyrics and singing, and by imitating the lion's roar, the participants transform into a herd of lions and learn the differences between instrumental and vocal-instrumental music. With the movement Aviary, they participate by imitating bird song, and then look for the cuckoo at the end of the forest by actively listening to the movement of the same name. The harpsichord in Fossils becomes a musical and working instrument, while the participants, like paleontologists, discover fossils in order to introduce all the remaining animals into the ark through song and body music in the Finale.
Carnival of the Animals: from idea to composition - intended for students of the subject, with selected pieces of the zoological suite, it brings the compositional vocation closer to the participants. They will discover how Camille Saint-Saëns got the idea for this zoological fantasy, what existing pieces inspired him, what musical quotes he used and which contemporary composers he influenced. Along with the live musical performance, the participants become active performers of the selected pieces. They will imitate the slow gait of elephants and adopt meter and rhythm, dance the cancan at different tempos, the fast and brisk gallop from Jacques Offenbach's operetta Orpheus in the Underworld, and the slow tempo of Saint-Saëns's The Turtles. In Carnival of the Animals by John Williams, he found inspiration for the film music about Harry Potter, so with the Aquarium piece, the participants become wizards and outline the melody with the movements of glow sticks. Along with the Fossil movement, they will play the harpsichord and sing a fragment of the famous children's song "Blistaj, blistaj zvijezdo mala" (Shine, shine, little star), which the composer quotes, and the Finale will enrich the original compositional score with body music. In doing so, participants will learn or repeat the rules of concert etiquette, some of the musical components, and the suite as a musical genre.
Karmen Sirovic
ADDITIONAL PROGRAM
Music workshop " Drum Circle " for children and youth - Now is the right time (date) to get acquainted with the oldest musical instruments, drums. Play percussion instruments from around the world and become part of the "Drum Circle"! Joint drumming is healing, encourages togetherness, tolerance and awakens a sense of happiness.
Teta Operetta & Beard Keyboardist Interactive show za children (4 + year), guest: Ante Jekrunica, socks - Directly from the stages of the world's largest opera houses after Giorgio Suriano, another special dear surprise guest, bass Ante Jerkunica, arrives in the magical opera Tete Opereta. Ante, in the role of Gioachino Rossini, together with Teta Operetta and Barba Klavaliro, will reveal to the children that even cats sing in their magic.
