Padėti kitiems tobulėti. Vaclovas Paketūras

LTVaclovas Paketūras (1928−2018) – Lietuvos muzikologijos pasaulyje visiems puikiai žinoma asmenybė: pedagogas, muzikologas, kompozitorius, aktyvus kultūros gyvenimo dalyvis ir visuomenininkas. Profesoriaus gyvenimas savaip įrėmina XX amžiaus permainas Lietuvoje (vaikystė Nepriklausomoje šalyje, II pasaulinis karas, mokslai ir pirmieji darbai sovietmečiu, atgauta Nepriklausomybė ir naujų galimybių ribos). Įvairialypė Paketūro veikla ir kūryba tiesiogiai atspindi tai, kas vyko įvairiais Lietuvos kultūrinio gyvenimo periodais, kur jis išliko ištikimas moralinėms vertybėms (niekada nebuvo partinis), o kur kartais ir pasiduodavo (dalis kūrybos). Bet asmenybės brandą išduoda tai, kad Paketūras niekada nesigėdijo to, ką kūrė ir kuo užsiėmė – buvo didžiulis muzikos teorijos autoritetas, kolegų pagalbininkas, veiklų ir naujų kūrybinių gairių liaudies instrumentams iniciatorius ir t. t. Beveik visą savo gyvenimą susiejęs su dabartine Lietuvos muzikos ir teatro akademija, Profesorius ugdė bene visus kompozitorius ir muzikologus, puoselėjo jiems ne tik studijų žinias, bet ir pareigingumo, tvarkos ir disciplinos pagrindus. Savo neįtikėtinai gausios veiklos baruose Profesorius rado laiko ir dar vienai sričiai, kuri jį tiesiogiai siejo su vaikyste ir meile žemei – sodininkystei. Ši knyga – tik prisilietimas prie šios daugialypės asmenybės. Leidinį sudaro mokslo studija, skirta Paketūro kūrybos ir veiklų apžvalgai, biografija, ryškiausios publikacijos, savu laiku skirtos Profesoriui, keli paties Paketūro straipsnių šrichai, draugų, bendradarbių bei buvusių studentų prisiminimai, gausūs priedai.

ENWhen you don't know someone personally, all the stories told about that person often become legends. I, the author and editor of this book, was still a student at the National M. K. Čiurlionis School of Art, when the name of Vaclovas Paketūras (1928-2018), constantly on the lips of all our teachers, kept reminding us that the legendary demanding Professor awaits us in the future and we cannot hope to escape his high standards and the complexity of his assignments. We did our best to study hard because we believed in what the teachers kept telling us. Well, can you imagine our surprise when this ever-looming Professor met us, his young students, with a broad smile and a quiet voice! Yes, you really needed to study hard to please him, but if you understood his work and assessment system and you were diligent, punctual, and neat, the number of "little pluses" was steadily growing in the legendary notebook of Paketūras. And yes, he didn't make any concessions to anyone, but was it not the right thing to do? I personally have never heard him raise his voice or rebuke anyone - not even once in the more than 25 years that I knew the Professor. Everyone who met Paketūras under any circumstances were, first of all, fascinated by how multifaceted his personality was: a composer, an educator, a public figure, a gardener, a plant breeder... Where did this man find the time? The answer, again, lies in his precision and perfect time management: Not a second wasted! More than ten years ago, while spending a typical workday afternoon in one of the classrooms of the Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre (LMTA), I heard a knock on the door. Opening the door, I saw the smiling face of the Professor and heard him say: Everything that is not yet in order, needs to be taken care of.When invited to come in, he opened his briefcase and took out a heap of papers, folders, scraps, and notebooks all covered with handwritten notes and asked me to find a student who could systematise everything and help him write a book summarising his life's work. I could not say no. After Paketūras left, I stared in horror at the desk all covered with papers for the longest time, pondering just who could do that? The Professor kept coming round and asking me if I had found an assistant for him yet. It did not take me long time to realise that I would be the one helping him. Not because there were no students capable of doing this, but because I started feeling remorse about the things that had not yet been done. As requested by the Professor, the book consists of five chapters and a number of annexes. Chapter 1 is a scientific study summarising the oeuvre of Vaclovas Paketūras and his other activities. Covering the entire artistic life of the Professor in detail was not the goal here: only the key aspects that shaped his creative expression and his other initiatives were selected and presented. This summary reveals that most of his pieces were inspired by folk songs and romantic thinking. As a composer, he was multifaceted: the prevailing and most abundant group of his works consists of vocal compositions (original songs for a soloist or a choir) and another big group includes pieces for folk instruments; meanwhile, opuses for orchestras, chamber music ensembles, or instruments of academic music are far and few between. In the context of the 1960s and 1970s, the composer was not an active supporter of the reformed musical language: he remained faithful to the musical ideals he had developed back in his youth, i. e. he heavily focused on folk songs and folk instruments, which meant that the 'folk romanticism' style consistently and permanently found its way to his music.The public benefit activities of Paketūras attest that he was an incredibly hard- working man, trusted both by the LMTA and the Lithuanian Composers' Union (LKS), as well as other public organisations. Another inseparable interest of the Professor was gardening, which he treated with the same high level of responsibility and diligence. I hope that this chapter will supplement the limited number of available publications on the activities and musical works of Paketūras. Chapter 2 comprises his biography. It is based on autobiographical fragments handwritten by the Professor himself (distinguished by italics in the book) and on the original materials shared during our extended conversations. Biographical accents are important as an authentic document about the life of this musician-a kind of musical chronicle interspersed both with serious and funny insights. Chapter 3 consists of an article by Virginija Apanavičienė and three interviews with Paketūras (by Regina Vaišnoraitė-Marozienė, Jurgis Juozapaitis, and Ignas Gudelevičius). The above-mentioned texts repeat some fragments of information already included in Chapters 1 and 2, but they are important nevertheless, as they offer a contemporary glance at the personality and activities of the Professor and have been edited and supplemented with comments of the author of this book. [...].