Wednesday, June 26, 6 p.m.
City Hall
Musical Play of Vera Milanković
ON THIS SIDE OF MUSIC
Choir of the Children's Cultural Centre Belgrade
Conductor: Nevena Ivanović
Free Programme
The musical play "On this Side of Music", performed by the Choir of the Children's Cultural Centre Belgrade, brings closer tones and relationships between them to children, but also to other listeners, music pedagogists or students of music. This play seeks to discover the principle that keeps every musical work as a whole. These are threads that connect the inner music space. In a series of songs, each of them reveals a part of these threads, and together they weave content in the form of a musical.
The play consists of 18 songs, whose initial syllables were created to coincide with the note of solmization. This creates a perfect blend of literature and music, accessible and understandable to children. The text is witty and lucid, and the melody follows it in the children's vocal lines.
Each song is enriched by the scenic movement, guided by the idea stemming from the text. Choreography is conceived with the help of the melody, which in some cases sets the movement and the scene itself. Тhe chorus on stage is not a static, but a moving ensemble that operates in the stage movement, acting and voice, and all these segments create a musical.