Dear Mrs. Toghina,
as a collegue from the Austrian Broadcasting Corporation
ORF, who is
responsable for braodcastings about New Music, I have
to tell you,
that I was shocked about th information, that your
company will not
go on to support the Acousmania Festival.
In the last years I reported frequently about the
festivals "Musica
Nova Acousmatica" ans "Acousmania"
in my broadcastings.
On Oct., 27th, 2006 I presented works of Petru Teodorescu,
Tim
Hodgkinson,
Ana
Maria Avram and Iancu
Dumitrescu.
On Jan, 26th, 2007 followed another broadcasting with
music of Ulpiu
Vlad,Francoise
Barriere, Tim Hodgkinson and Robert Reigle.
To prove this, please look at
http://oe1.orf.at/Programm/20070126230500
In my oppinion, there is no other festival of
New Music in the
Eastern part of Europe, that is so important like
"Acousmania" (after
the decline of "Warsaw Autumn").
It gives not only a chance to listerner in Romania
to learn about the
tendencies of New Music from all over the world, but
also - by
recording and distribution via the EBU network - to
the radio
listeners all over Europe to hear the works of Romanian
composers,
who belong to the most intersting avantguarde of our
days.
35 millions of radio listeners, who are interested
in New Music, may
be attainable via EBU !
Therefor you should go on recording the concerts of
"Acousmania" and
similar fetivals and present it emphatically to the
partner stations
of EBU. There are many of my collegues all over Europe,
who would
eagerly ask for those recordings.
I can also assure you, that there is a great interest
in music from
Romania and all all musical activities, since Sibiu
is a cultural
metropole of 2007, the delta of river Danube is the
"landscape of the
year" and there is a massive advertising and publicity
campaign for
Romania - not only in Austria, but in all Europe (as
I found out at a
recent sejour at Paris). - Moreover I want to mention,
that the
Roumanian Cultural Institute (RKI) in Vienna, wich
is only a block
from the ORF-Funkhaus away in Argentineierstrasse,
emphasizes the
musical scene of Romania.
So you could give help to the musical life of Romania
by a little aid
of the documentation of its festivals.
So I kindly ask you to consider my arguments,
With the expression of my highly esteem,
respectfully yours,
Prof.Giselher Smekal
ORF - Austrian Broadcasting Corporation
Funkhaus Wien
Argentineristr.30 a
1040 WIEN
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