ZAGREB: PREMIER PERFORAMCE OF "GLISSADE" BY MILKO KELEMEN

ZAGREB, April 12 (Hina) - The Croatian Radio Television Symphonic Orchestra on Thursday night conducted a concert in Zagreb's "Lisinski" concert hall within their Cycle of Maestros, giving a premier performance of a piece by Milko Kelemen entitled "Glissade". The conductor of the premier was Niksa Bareza. #L# The piece, "Glissade", written for the clarinet, with recitals and orchestra by leading modern Croatian composer Milko Kelemen was dedicated to clarinet player Milka Pavdic and Niksa Bareza. The piece was composed last year. The composers' inspiration, as he said himself, of emotional intelligence for this composition was inspired by a song written by an old associate, French poet Fernand Arrabala, entitled "Love Song". Expressing his satisfaction of the premier of "Glissade" in Zagreb, Kelemen told Hina that this was a composition with special affects - a composition for the clarinet which does not end with that instrument but with a text which at first glance seems almost pornographic but in fact is quite poetic, said Kelemen. The text, "Hymn to the Falus", by Fernand Arabala could be quite shocking for the domestic public, Kelemen believes but, as he said, as an avant guardist, "I always need to find some new surprise". "Glissade" will soon be performed in Munich with the Munich Chamber Orchestra and in Paris and Stockholm, Kelemen announced. He has lived abroad for several years (currently in Stuttgart, where he came to fame in his musical career. Kelemen believes that his success abroad could be attributed to the Zagreb Soloists for whom he composed since their very beginnings in the first half of the fifties, last century. It is in that ensemble that he conducted over 600 performances of his work, "Concert Improvisation", all over the world. Kelemen expressed hope that the new concert maestro of the Zagreb Soloists, Karlo Slobodan Fio, a musician with great experience, will return fame and glory to the ensemble just as it enjoyed during the leadership of Antonio Janigra and that after a long break he would manage "to waken that sleeping beauty". Kelemen believes that the Soloists will be successful in all fields of music - from the Renaissance to classical music and the modern as well as Croatian compositions "that they will promote all over the world". Between April 11 to 18, the Zagreb Soloists will be conducting their second tour around Germany in the past month. (hina) sp sb