Charles Ives Prize

Member of DS party presidency detained, then released

NOVI SAD -- A member of the Democratic Party (DS) presidency and vice-president of the Assembly of Vojvodina, Milivoj Vrebalov, was detained on Monday.

He was released early on Tuesday after a court in Zrenjanin, in the province of Vojvodina, decided there were "no elements" to keep him in jail for up to 30 days.

BELGRADE - Aleksandra Vrebalov, a US-based Serbian composer whose Beyond Zero project - commissioned by UC Berkeley to commemorate the centenary of the outbreak of the Great War and recently performed in Serbia by the Kronos Quartet - is the winner of the prestigious annual award of Harvard University's Fromm Music Foundation.

BELGRADE - The famous American Kronos Quartet starts its world tour in Belgrade's Sava Center on Thursday with a performance of 'Beyond Zero: 1914-1918', a collaboration by Serbian composer Aleksandra Vrebalov and renowned American filmmaker Bill Morrison.