Dainų diena "Čia – mano namai" 2014

ENOur Song Festival is experiencing a renaissance. The number of art groups is not increasing, but there increased the awareness, responsibility of the singers, and also more people visit the festival. The nation has felt and realized that the song festival is its real festival. One of the most prominent critics of our music and composer of interwar Lithuania and later in exile V. Jakubėnas stressed that the Song Festival is not only artistic, but also a social-national phenomenon. During the Soviet times, this attitude was distorted and recovered after the first World Lithuanian Song Festival (1994). But here again we have to go back to the beginning of the article: the Song Festival, in this case – the Song Day – is an integral artistic and social-national phenomenon created by all the people taking part in the festival. The artistic program of the choir is a musical component of the festival. We can analyze it in various academic choral composition analysis ways. The psychological, sensual symbolist component is little subject to rational assessment. Its processes are inspired and a little regulated by music, directing and all other aesthetic operations of the festival. There is no doubt that the Song Day’s overall success and separately success of the final would not have been so great, powerful and convincing, if the songs (and the five of the final), acting and fashion demonstration (maybe even movements of the choir) had not fused into one artistic-spiritual inspiration and had not had an integral line of musical expression. Song Day’s monumentality, artistic and psychological multifariousness reject claims to its complete analysis and evaluation. There remains only a cautious movement along the way to knowledge!.