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6th International musical festival SUMMERTIME- BUCHAREST TANGO
Organizer: SIA "Hermaņa Brauna fonds", Reģ. Nr.40003377814, Jāņa iela 3, Rīga, tel. 67205444, e-pasts: hbf@hbf.lv   BUCHAREST TANGO (International tango ensemble)
Soloist - Oana Cătălina Chiţu (vocal)  
BUCHAREST TANGO is a unique program, one that resurrects a lost music, the sound of Romanian Tango as played in Bucharest cafes and parks, restaurants and clubs across the 1930s. Oana Cătălina Chiţu and her musicians combine the lost tango songs of that era with the folk ballads of Maria Tanase (1913-1963; the Romanian Piaf). Oana was born in rural Romania and grew up listening to her father sing the lost tangos. Visiting relatives in Bucharest she found they had old gramophones and scratchy 78 recordings of the tangos. She began to memorise this beautiful, vanished music. At the same time she loved the songs of Maria Tanase, the tragic diva of Romania, whose voice once haunted the nation. No other singer of the younger generation from Romania has been able to approach both the tangos à la romanesque and Tanase's ballads so authentically yet freely. Although Romania is a country with a rich musical tradition a virus of cheap, electronic pop music has seized the nation post-revolution. Oana represents the cutting edge of a new generation of Romanians interested in http://www.hbf.lv/ A new tradition has come to Latvia's musical life in 2005. The famous musicians have taken part in the festival, among them Inessa Galante, Irina Dolzhenko, Antra Bigaca, Lili Larina, Sergej Larin, Anatoly Safiulin, Egils Silins, Mischa Maisky, Victoria Postnikova, Muza Rubackyte, Baiba Skride, Janine Jansen, Vadim Gluzman, Henk van Twillert, Inna Davidova, Josif Feigelson, Marcis Kulis, Aleksandr Rozhdestvensky, Intars Busulis, Victor Ritov, The Real Group, Cosmos, BRATSCH, Pepe Justicia and his ensemble of flamenco, Die Deutsche Kammerphilarmonie Bremen (conductor Paavo Järvi), the Latvian National Symphony orchestra (conductors Gennady Rozhdestvensky, Andris Nelsons and Aleksandrs Vilumanis), European Union Youth Orchestra (conductor Andrej Borejko). In 2005, December, Jurmala City Council rewarded Herman Braun Foundation with the Prize of the Year for successful realization of the first festival and valuable contribution to culture of the city. The diversity of genres is one of the indispensable conditions of the festival. Famous opera and concert singers, jazzmen, soloists-instrumentalists, choirs, orchestras, folk dancers and vocal groups are coming here to enjoy the audience. The second condition is the patronage of Inessa Galante, the brilliant Latvian singer, whose art is well known all over the world. She invites the participants personally; therefore the touch of intimacy has to make the mood of the festival more friendly and easy. The organizers of the festival intend to give more than one concert daily. Some guests have agreed to meet with young musicians and give master-classes during the period of the festival. Due to long-standing traditions, new ideas and high musical culture Jurmala has become a birthplace of this unique festival, which can get similar to such prestigious musical festivities as these ones in Salzburg, Glyndebourne, Kuhmo, Bregenz etc.
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