Marti Encore:12
Inspired by Žemaitė’s short story Marti, this musical narrative brings together passages from her writing and works by Lithuanian and international women composers. It explores women’s lives, creativity and often unseen daily labour, finding echoes of experiences from more than a century ago in the present.
In a concert, an encore is the extra piece the audience asks to hear. Here, repetition becomes a metaphor for life. Daily work, worries and responsibilities return, as do silences and words left unspoken across generations. Like a recurring musical motif, they keep asking to be heard.
The programme features music by Rūta Vitkauskaitė, Egidija Medekšaitė, Zita Bružaitė, Nijolė Sinkevičiūtė, Žibuoklė Martinaitytė, Diana Čemerytė, Rita Mačiliūnaitė, Ugnė Giedraitytė, Loreta Narvilaitė, Justė Janulytė and Clara Schumann.
Performed by Giedrė Žarėnaitė-Molenaar (violin), Vytautas Giedraitis (clarinet), Sebastiaan Molenaar (percussion, Norway) and Simona Zajančauskaitė (piano). The project’s development is funded by the Lithuanian Council for Culture.
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