Solemn concert Notes of Peace was held in Sarajevo on the occasion of the 20th anniversary of the Dayton Peace Agreement and on the day when two decades of peace in Bosnia and Herzegovina are being marked.
Together on the stage were the orchestra of the Sarajevo Philharmonics and the Verdi Theatre from Trieste, Choir of the Sarajevo Opera, and soloists Marie Fajtova, Simonetta Cavalli, Amir Saračević and Ivan Šarić, connected by the Ninth Symphony by Ludwig van Beethoven. The conductor was maestro Gianluigi Gelmetti, a guest from Italy.
The concert is also a crown to this year’s Month of Italian Culture in B&H, organized by the Embassy of Italy during November.
Performance of the famous Beethoven’s piece had especially solemn character due to the presence of numerous audience, for which free entrance to the concert was provided, as well as distinguished guests among whom were the Ambassador of USA to B&H Maureen Cormack, Congressman of the Ohio State Michael Turner, Ambassador of Great Britain Edward Ferguson, and other members of diplomatic corps.
The fourth part of the symphony, also known as the Ode to Joy, is also being performed as the anthem of Europe, and the year of marking the twentieth anniversary of peace in B&H is also a turning point on the path of B&H towards the EU.
(Source: radiosarajevo.ba)
