Vocal music in Plečnik-designed settings
Ljubljana, 22 September - The annual Plečnik & A-Cappella concert series is opening in Ljubljana on Sunday, featuring five vocal music ensembles who will perform at locations designed by Slovenia's greatest architect Jože Plečnik (1872-1957).
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St Michael's Church in Črna Vas near Ljubljana, one of the venues of the Plečnik & A-Cappella series.
Photo: Bor Slana/STA
The series is opening with an admission-free matinee concert by the children's and youth choirs and singing school students of Glasbena Matica Ljubljana, a music school founded in 1872. They will perform in the park in front of the school in Vegova Street that was designed by Plečnik.
Except for the opening event, the other four concerts will take place on Wednesdays until 16 October.
The vocal ensemble Gallina will perform Meditatones, a programme of sacral and folk music, at St Michael's Church in Črna Vas in Ljubljana Marshes on 25 September, and the ensemble Elinor will perform Triptych, which they prepared especially for the occasion, at the reading room of the National and University Library on 2 October.
The multi-award-winning Emil Komel mixed youth choir from Italy's Gorizia will give a concert at the Church of St Francis of Assisi in the Šiška borough on 9 October and BeJazzy will wrap up the series on 16 October with a concert at the Church of St. Cyril and Methodius in Bežigrad.