“When I got information from Lola Perrin about theproject she started two years ago I immediately answered that I would organise a ClimateKeys concert and play in it. Why? Because Lola is my dear friend, wonderful pianist and composer and the most important for me – a women with a big heart. I knew that she is doing right thing. For many years, I avoided TV and newspapers. I wanted to be at peace. The more I know about situation in this world, the more disturbed and unhappy I became. It was my choice, but was not Lola’s, who cares about people near and far away. As a participant in ClimateKeys project I started to collect some information about climate change. I was in position which no longer allowed me to be blind. I discovered that the life of all beings is in danger and we already can see victims of global warming. The future doesn’t seem to me optimistic at all. Our concert program relates to climate change in three ways. ‘Alarm is a type of warning, ‘Water Music’ is a meditative piece, some pieces (Love and Music from Fragile Light Spaces) show the beauty of life and human beings. I am not enthusiastic that there is one quick solution; I don’t believe this. And I don’t trust the people who have real power. I don’t understand how their minds work. From the other side, people with much less or no power can become powerful thanks to the faith in the justice, not wealth.” (Nada Kolundžija)
“I noticed climate change where I used to live - South Africa. People living in the Western Cape have been suffering from water shortages for the past year to such an extent that using more than fifty litres of water per person per day became a crime! That's the privileged part of the story; those living in the slums get almost zero water. The same or worse is happening in Pakistan; the waiting time for a water supply is a minimum of two weeks and water became more expensive than gold! And the landscapes that used to be beautiful, green, fertile land became barren and dead... But what struck me the most, as I saw it with my own eyes, was the Dead Sea; it is disappearing by one meter very year due to one hundred years of constant unnatural manipulation around it (minerals, mud, salt extraction, tourism...). That's a disaster! I want to draw peoples' attention to the topic of climate change topic as I think not many of us believe we can actually influence the situation at all. I think that such a performance initiative is exactly the best way to inform and inspire those who have no interest in that area (which seems to be the majority of us …).” (Joanna Wicherek)
PROGRAMME
Milos Raickovich
Duet Without You (for piano four hands)
Miroslav Miša Savić
St Lazarus Valse (ver. 2018) (for Toy Piano and Grand Piano)
Lola Perrin
Music from Fragile Light Spaces: part 1
Early one Sunday morning: part 4 ‘Love’
Henry Cowell
The Tides of Manaunaun
Paweł Mykietyn
Klavierstücke
Miloš Raičkovich
Water Tones
Talk by Danijela Božanić
Audience discussion led by Danijela Božanić
Miloš Raičković
Alarm
