Stevan Mokranjac

Ljubljana – Several associations hosted a Day of Slovenian-Serbian Friendship at Fužine Castle in Ljubljana featuring Alexander, Crown Prince of Yugoslavia, and his spouse, Crown Princess Katherine of Serbia. It was announced at the event that 12 June would probably be formally declared the Day of Slovenian-Serbian Friendship next year.

Under the title Slavic Rhapsody, the concert will present Slavic folk music and its echoes in music by featuring segments of operas, symphonic and choir music by composers such as Antonin Dvorak, Bedrich Smetana, Marjan Kozina, Stevan Mokranjac, Jakov Gotovac and Alexander Porfiryevich Borodin.

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 Belgrade Philharmonic Orchestra will join the commemorations of a great Serbian cultural anniversary, the centenary of the death of Stevan Mokranjac, the founder of Serbian artistic music, with late Friday's performance at the Kolarac Endowment.

BELGRADE - The 11th edition of the festival titled "Harpsichord Living Art" (Ars Vivendi Clavicembalum) opens at the Belgrade City Hall on Friday evening.

BELGRADE - Young Russian pianist Alexander Sinchuk will perform with the RTS Symphonic Orchestra and conductor Bojan Sudjic at the Kolarac Endowment at the closing of the 46th Belgrade Music Festival (BEMUS) late Saturday.

The performance will feature Sergei Rachmaninoff's symphonic poem The Isle of the Dead, Piano Concerto No. 2 and Piano Concerto No. 3.