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She was nonetheless a “younger ear” when she was invited to a German metropolis to carry out earlier than His Holiness the Dalai Lama at an essential occasion. “Even in the event you’re simply concentrating on the music at that second, a flash of thought flashed by means of my head that the slit on my gown was too excessive,” soprano Gabriela Eibenová laughs in an interview. Throughout covid, the singer based the Rosa Bohemica pageant, with which she excursions locations of pilgrimage and church buildings.
When an individual will get the chance to sing for the Dalai Lama of their twenties, it is a huge deal. Weren’t you afraid that one thing would go unsuitable?
I had no concept that I might sing for him. It was a very huge and festive live performance in Baden-Baden, broadcast reside to the entire of Germany. I welcomed the sight of His Holiness the Dalai Lama with enthusiasm, and even in the event you’re simply concentrating on the music at that second, a flash of thought crossed my thoughts that the slit on my gown was too excessive.
At the moment, my designer and I have been enthusiastic about what clothes to decide on. Because it was a matinee (morning cultural occasion – editor’s word), it was not acceptable to invent a gown that was too lengthy. However, it was an essential occasion, so one thing elegant was anticipated. The designer lastly got here up with an extended gown with a slit. However once I got here to the corridor, I discovered that there was a raised stage, which the viewers was from an nearly sharp angle. And within the entrance row, immediately beneath me, sat the Dalai Lama.
Do you bear in mind how he checked out that rip?
He had the identical mild smile as all the time, there was nothing recognizable about it. He definitely did not let that put him off. No matter this, for me already shaggy dog story, I loved the live performance. I respect the Dalai Lama, and each time I get an opportunity to listen to his phrases of knowledge, I take pleasure in listening to them.
“It’s usually pure for an individual that if he has some inside questions, he begins to dedicate himself to one thing lovely,” says the mom of three youngsters. | Photograph: Aktuálně.cz/Rosa Bohemica
Is he additionally near you from the standpoint of spirituality? I do know you might be Catholic.
Undoubtedly sure, these issues should not mutually unique, at the very least for me. Many practices from Buddhism enhance psychological and bodily well being. I preferred Victory Breath, which is basically acutely aware respiration, which later led me to meditation. Merely put, in the event you’re out of breath, you are a winner. You do a couple of respiration workouts within the morning and the day is totally completely different.
Does religion in God have an effect on your singing expertise?
Sure, it’s a fully important connection for me. Music is a muse that conveys one thing intangible to you, you contact one thing in it that surpasses you. I believe plenty of musicians really feel this manner, I come throughout it fairly often. However it’s usually pure for an individual that if he has some inside questions, he begins to dedicate himself to one thing lovely or at the very least feels the necessity to encompass himself with that magnificence.
I assume that the outdated music that you simply primarily hearken to is emotional for you additionally as a result of it was largely written for church buildings…
Sure, non secular music was the basis of all of it. The secular was carried out in theaters, the non secular in church buildings, and there it additionally had its clear, ritual operate. Right now, this operate is carried out by recorded music.
How precisely does outdated music differ from, say, extra fashionable music – from Mozart onwards?
Photograph writer: Aktuálně.cz/Rosa Bohemica
Gabriela Eibenová
- is a famend singer – performer of early music and founding father of the Rosa Bohemica pageant
- she studied the Prague Conservatory, the speculation and efficiency observe of early music at Masaryk College and historic interpretation at JAMU
- along with her husband, organist and conductor Adam Viktora, based the vocal-instrumental ensemble Ensemble Inégal, which promotes the works of the Czech baroque composer Jan Dismas Zelenka
- she sang nearly throughout Europe, in Israel, Lebanon and Japan
- he has greater than 40 CD recordings to his credit score
- works as a singing trainer at grasp programs specializing within the interpretation of early music
- she sang for Pope John Paul II. and His Holiness the Dalai Lama
- He has three youngsters
I believe that within the varied epochs we go from symmetry to asymmetry, to place it merely. As soon as upon a time, music was supposed to guide folks to the Aristocracy, concord and catharsis. Trendy occasions, for instance expressionism, already captured a sure break up of the soul. Variations may be discovered even inside early music. In comparison with the Renaissance with its moderation and smoothness, the Baroque is way more torn, it already works with the widest vary of feelings that we are able to think about. Nevertheless, it’s nonetheless inside symmetry. They consciously labored with impacts, tones and rhetorical figures that have been primarily based on antiquity. The music was supposed to maneuver your emotions, provoke you, or, quite the opposite, put you in a state of bliss.
I really feel like I can acknowledge baroque in portray, however I do not actually know what it means precisely in music.
It’s the identical as the photographs. There are a variety of symbols which are hidden within the figures. In the event you take the Bronze Snake from Zelenka, for instance (Ensemble Inégal with the oratorio Il serpente del bronzo by Jan Dismas Zelenka – editor’s word), the place a mom mourns a dying little one, immediately you will have silence in that passage. And that is the fantastic thing about music, that even the silence in it means one thing. It is referred to as a determine of silence. The other is the so-called tirades. These are quick runs which are used in the mean time of sure dynamics, motion. They symbolize, for instance, a shot arrow. The gorgeous factor is that as a performer, you’ll be able to have a look at the sheet music and you may inform from them what’s going on within the story with out studying the textual content.
However there are additionally symbols within the tones themselves. For instance, such a G minor. You hear the chalumeaux in it, which is the precursor to the clarinet, and you are feeling the unhappiness, such a deep, unhappy magnificence. Quite the opposite, D main is trumpets and glory, pleasure. Nevertheless, symbols may also be discovered elsewhere. Bach, for instance, is a chapter in itself. He additionally symbolically wrote the variety of measures. Briefly, it is extremely multi-layered music, and essentially the most lovely factor about all of it is that, consequently, all the pieces matches collectively.
I assume you sing in Latin, are you able to?
I am unable to management it, however I perceive many issues. A musical performer must be acquainted with Latin, in any other case he misses rather a lot.
The Rosa Bohemica music pageant will provide 13 live shows, 4 theater performances and two lectures at 13 places within the Czech Republic. | Photograph: Aktuálně.cz/Rosa Bohemica
Has music ever helped you in your private life? For instance, do you perceive your feelings and inside world higher because of it?
Clearly. Baroque music helps outline passions and contemplation. On the identical time, there may be plenty of non secular stage, which is essential to me. And when you perceive the fundamentals of this wealthy world, you can be drawn in instantly. From the standpoint of the shape, it utilized the precept that you simply undergo some vicissitudes and eventually attain a catharsis, some lesson, some which means. That is not all the time the case with the newer stuff.
Can or not it’s in comparison with outdated fairy tales?
Sure precisely. The theme was set, then there was the disaster, the denouement, and eventually the ethical lesson.
You might be additionally returning to the previous with Rosa Bohemica, which you based throughout covid. I regarded the place the reside music pageant was happening in every single place, and I discovered a church, a monastery, but in addition a memorial to Karel Čapek in Strž. What connects these locations?
Undoubtedly a powerful genius loci. And I additionally suppose that it’s a rural panorama that was clearly formed by the Baroque in Bohemia. Small church buildings, locations of pilgrimage and methods of the cross started to be constructed. Throughout covid, my household and I might exit of city and everybody would chortle at me as a result of I might typically cease and say: “Nicely, that is the place it could sound!” And that is how the thought really happened – to resound the unique area and contact the outdated occasions. I like that at a live performance you expertise one thing that’s distinctive, that’s right here and now. It should rock you and that ambiance can’t be conveyed by something, no replica.
Antonín Dvořák used to go to this church to play the organ. | Photograph: Aktuálně.cz/Rosa Bohemica
You’ll personally carry out for instance with Ensemble Inégal within the church of St. Mary Magdalene with an interpretation of Dvořák’s Lužan Mass. So it isn’t simply outdated music on this system…
Sure, we’re not dogmatic and this 12 months is the 12 months of Czech music, so now we have Dvořák on this system, but in addition Bedřich Smetana, Bohuslav Martinů or Leoš Janáček. The fascinating factor concerning the church in Bohutín is that it’s situated close to Dvořák’s summer time residence. He frequently went there to play the organ at mass. With Rosa Bohemica, we’re type of retracing his steps.
You might be organizing the pageant for the fourth 12 months, so you will have already “relived” among the sights. How do you want singing in them?
All of the venues on the pageant are nice on this regard. Nevertheless it’s completely different elsewhere. So now I’ll use the time period from the Japanese shiatsu therapeutic massage. It’s empty in some locations and full in others. Maybe that is what may be referred to as the spirit of a spot, both it lives there or it does not. It is like warmth and chilly. A separate chapter is structure and historical past. At such conferences, I prefer to recall the tales that passed off there. On the pageant, I take pleasure in assembly individuals who share the identical ardour for music, tales and wandering the countryside as I do. The fascinating factor is that no person needs to go house after these live shows. We stand in teams and discuss. It’s assembly in all its meanings that I like most of all.
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