MONOGRAPH O DUBROVNIK FESTIVAL PRESENTED

DUBROVNIK, July 10 (Hina) - An extensive monograph "Dubrovnik Summer Festival 1950-1999. Croatia" was presented on Saturday in the Rector's Palace prior to this evening's ceremonial opening. The book is about most significant events which have occurred since the Festival was established in 1950. The monograph was presented by the editor Vlaho Benkovic and by Josko Juvancic, Frano Matusic, Jagoda Marticencevic and Tomo Vlahutin. The book is of an exceptional documentary importance as it contains all date the Festival, while the Festival's public records burnt to the ashes during the Yugoslav aggression against Croatia. The festival in Dubrovnik, today a town protected as a part of the world cultural heritage, is celebrating its golden jubilee this summer. It was imagined as an attempt to harmonise the Renaissance and Baroque atmosphere of Dubrovnik and the living spirit of drama and music. The works of Marin Drzic, Ivan Gundulic, Ivo Vojnovic as well as of Shakespeare, Goldoni, the Greek tragedians, Moliere, Corneille and Goethe were performed all these years. The musical part of the festival has already grown into a real review of top solo artists and ensembles from all over the world. The high standard of performance was complemented in Dubrovnik by a functional use of the attractive and acoustic buildings, above all of the atrium of the Rector's Palace. From the beginning of the seventies very great attention was paid to the definition of the nature of the music and concert programme in which there were more and more representatives of new currents in music as well as endeavours to breathe new life into old, especially Croatian, music. (hina) ms