Joining the celebration of the European Day of Early Music, the Palace of the Grand Dukes of Lithuania invites you to a whole day of events! Interactive installations, a lecture, educational activities and a concert await you. Find out what was typical for the technique of music composition in the Baroque period, as well as today, try yourself out in the role of a composer and find the musical instruments dispersed in the expositions!
PROGRAM
10.00–17.00
Museum expositions
Interactive musical installation MUSICAL TABLE
Feel like a real composer and create music according to your taste!
With the interactive table “MashMachine” you will be able to compose different versions of the same well known piece, you can do it by yourself or invite friends to help you out.
More about “MachMachine” – www.mashmachines.com
Entrance with a museum visitor’s ticket.
10.00–16.00
Museum expositions
Orientational game MUSICAL JOURNEY
Discover musical instruments, notes, musical hints hidden in the museum’s expositions and win prizes: the CD “Baroque Contempo”, invitations into Klaipeda Chamber Orchestra’s and Dmitry Sinkovsky’s concert, mugs and umbrellas with the logos of the Museum of the Palace of the Grand Dukes.
Entrance with a museum visitor’s ticket.
10.00–15.30
Auditorium of the visitor’s vestibule
THE CHAMBER OF EARLY MUSIC
Live radio translation of the European Early Music (REMA) network.
Entrance is free.
10.00–20.00
Access to the visitor’s vestibule
Musical installation MUSICAL STEPS
We invite you to try out our acoustic installation, in which sounds of the harpsichord from the Palace of the Grand Dukes are recorded!
Entrance is free.
14.00–15.00
Starting from the visitor’s vestibule
Educational activity for families with children 5-10 years old
We improvise the opera : THE KIDNAPPING OF ELENA
The activity will be led by Beatričė Urmilevičienė, Elena Gasiulytė-Dautartienė and Egidijus Užkurėnas
Entrance with an educational activity’s ticket. Registration beforehand is mandatory.
We invite you to register and come! You can register by pressing here.
16.00–16.45
Auditorium of the visitor’s vestibule
A public lecture-presentation by the composer Marija Paškevičiūtė “Squareness as a Universal Musical Structural Principle: Before and Now”
Principles of squareness in the structure of musical pieces, its origins and historical evolution in classical as well as contemporary music will be discussed in the lecture. Music from Johann Sebastian Bach and Antonio Vivaldi to minimalism, contemporary cinema music and techno music will be discussed.
18.00–19.45
Great Renaissance Hall
Concert of early music
Dmitry Sinkovsky (violin)
Klaipėda Chamber Orchestra
Artistic director Mindaugas Bačkus
In the program, pieces by Antonio Vivaldi, Giuseppe Antonio Brescianello, Francesco Geminiani, Johanno Adolpho Hasse.
More information about the concert here.
Tickets are available here.
