INTRODUCTION
One of the most important moments in the promotion
of the young musicians and talents are the educational and promotion
opportunities available to those musicians, created by the music
institutions and organizations. And not only in terms of their
preparation of the future professional life, but also preparing the
social and cultural background, e.g. creating audiences. The following
links are part of the joint efforts of the Macedonian music
organizations to create concrete, individual-oriented and at the same
global approach to the subject of the promotion of young musicians and
audience building. The texts are dedicated and emerged from various
projects and should be considered as part of the global efforts
towards the creation of effective music education policy, wider
cultural education and creating equal opportunities for promotion of
the young musicians, both on national and international level.
The library within starts texts extracted from the
"Musicians of the new Millenium" project organized by
Jeunesses Musicales Macedonia and the Music and Ballet Association of
Macedonia in December 1999 under the patronage of UNESCO, plus texts
extracted from the JMI News distributed from the Jeunesses Musicales
International bulletin.
We expect the archives to grow in the future, thus
enabling the readers to benefit from the various aspects elaborated
within.
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“…In the last ten years the students of
the center, whose number now exceeds the number of 1.400, aged 6-18
(in all departments) won over 80 awards and prices on international
competitions in various countries all over Europe, mostly in
categories for winds, ballet and first of all, piano. They are the
biggest credit for the positive development of the music culture in
Republic of Macedonia, created by the Music and Ballet Center
Skopje…”
“The talent and beyond”
Prof. Snezana Anastasova-Cadikovska, President Jeunesses
Musicales Macedonia “… Affirmation or promotion of the young talents is very
important issue not only for the musicians that are treated as
products, but also for the general culture within the country. There
are several levels where this kind of promotion could be introduced.
Thus, we can work in the frames of the local community, on the
national and international level, which is the main subject of this
essay. Marketing strategies for the young talent affirmation depends
of the level on which we are working…”
“Promotion of young talents”
Maja Canacevic, Macedonian Philharmonics
“The emergence of mass communication called ‘Internet’ and
the availability of information from all fields, including the field
of music with all its aspects, has lessened to a certain extent our
handicap and our ‘limited space’ phobia. The nostalgia for some
past times, the times of the previous generations…”
“Presentation of young talents”
Tina Ivanova, “Utrinski vesnik” Newspaper “…However, in this century we have encountered an explosion of
information connected with the music field by broadening up the
borders of the very term “music”: the conquest of the, so far
unexplored and peripheral areas of non-European music, the
revolutionary development of the professional European music, the
invention of new technical methods and sound resources. Yet, unlike
the previous epoch, the music studies’ programs today are more
conservative, basing themselves on the past music…”
“The Music Education in the Future-Problems and
Perspectives”
Ass. M.A. Viktorija KOLAROVSKA-GMIRJA, Faculty of Music
Arts Skopje “…I am trying to convince my pupils and students that in the
newly created conditions, art is measured with demands and activities,
but the prize must not be the loss of the human dignity and reliance
on false values.
One of the basic functions of the education is finding a suitable
place for each individual in the society…”
“Towards the New Millenium with Hopes and Apprehension”
Prof. Svetlana KOSEVA. Music School “Dobrin Petkov”
Plovdiv, Bulgaria “… At the beginning, the basic task of the fund was put on
Russian Fund for Culture. At the same time with the support of the
Russian association of the world funds, it emerges as a need and help
in the formation of young talents in painting, dance, and poetry and
above all in music. To find and care for young performers, to form a
talent of them, a necessary and valuable one at this moment in our
time and to help them find a stage and the audience that needs
him-that is exactly what this fund’s specialty is, that is what the
fund does and does it very successfully…”
“On the policy of the Fund ‘NEW NAMES’ in the area of
musical education for children, concert activities, the culture of
small nations”
Prof. Nina MAKAROVA, Foundation “NEW NAMES” Russia “… In best cases, the artistic and research methods can be
replaced by training, based over the indisputable principles of the
“school”. The modern pedagogy remains an alchemy caldron full of
noble expectations, to make gold from the lead. To be honest, the
mediocrity still grows, yet, only few people need it…”
“The Music Art at the Dawn of the New Time”
Prof. Dejan MIHAJLOVICH, Faculty of Music Art, Belgrade, FR
Yugoslavia “… Thence the interest and the desire among the young
musicians from various countries to come closer meet and associate
with each other. However, these contacts have another, even more
important dimension. Young musicians come from different upbringing,
from a larger or modest musical tradition, belong to different
schools, get education guided by different principles and differ in
their professional standards and talent…”
“International Affirmation of Young Talents”
Prof. Fimcho MURATOVSKI “…With respect to the number of the students in the primary
musical education, we belong to undeveloped countries. Despite this
statistics, this region is abundant with talented children. Guided by
their dedicated teachers, they managed to make an exceptional
breakthrough and incited interest not only in our country, but also
attracted the attention of the European musical public…”
“Musical Education in Macedonia, Experiences and Directions
for the Future”
Prof. Marija PISINOVA, President, Music and Ballet
Association of Macedonia
"… Furthermore, the youngsters should
also be given the opportunity of active participation in the
realization of their ideas - remember, it is not important what we
want, but what they need - therefore, the basic criteria for the
success of those projects must be the active involvement of the
youngsters on all levels - as idea developers, performers and
audience. Jeunesses Musicales should become one of the facilitators of
the ideas of the youth through the music…"
Developing new audiences and active participation of youth in music
projects
Blasko SMILEVSKI, Secretary
International, Jeunesses Musicales Macedonia
"JMI Congress News" Canada August 1999 |
