Zahradní ateliér / Garden Atelier - 2011
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Theodore Wiprud
Director of Education
New York Philharmonic
Avery Fisher Hall
10 Lincoln Center Plaza
New York, NY 10023
30 June 2005
FESTIVAL FORFEST CZECH REPUBLIC
Vaclav and Zdenka Vaculovic
Artistic Initiative, Kojetinska 1425
767 01 KROMERIZ, forfest@quick.cz
Dear Vaclav and Zdenka,
I was so glad to attend Forfest this year after hearing and reading about it for several years. It is a gathering unlike any other in the world – musicians and artists who understand the power of their art to move people on the deepest level. I heard marvelous performances (including of my own string quartet), saw profound artworks, and best of all, met like-minded people from other countries. Forfest is building an international community of composers and artists, in one of the most beautiful spots of Central Europe.
I have enjoyed discussing with you several possibilities of our mutual cooperation in the near future in the framework of European Weeks in Kromeriz. For instance, I am eager to foster more Czech-American exchange by helping musicians from Forfest find performance venues in New York. I would like to help you learn about American composers and artists who would be right for Forfest. I would like to help you plan the next steps in Forfest’s growth, especially in building its reputation abroad.
Soon I will send you articles I am, preparing on performance of spiritually based music here in New York, and about the development of my own music in that vein.
I am looking forward to our continuing cooperation,
Sincerely yours,
Theodore Wiprud
The Forfest festival appeared at the international stage in the first half of 1990s with a specialized conception linking the progressive contemporary music efforts with fine arts, which in a new, actual way touch substantial spiritual themes of art history. It really is a unique undertaking in this aim, even in the present decade. The program setting reflects world authors’ works in a relatively broad philosophical present time panorama. Thus the area for an important dialogue is restored between art and today’s largely consumption society, a dialogue of the main world religions, which includes smart current problems, from culture and fundamentalism differences or in another way motivated intolerance contributing to world division, misunderstanding among nations, weakening of the function of culture. In lots of concerts, workshops, lectures, exhibition projects and performances it purposefully observes the growing art endangering as a culture phenomena - it becomes a controversy to make postmodernism more academic, the loss of a contact with public, impersonalization of the very essence of art as a human message of mankind, The purpose is to return the sense of positive values back to the place, which has belonged to it since times immemorial and belongs to it at present...
Zdenka and VácIav Vaculovič
