Abstract
Tudor Jarda was a complex personality, a unique voice in the history of late 20th-century Romanian music, with original compositional approaches, in which he transcribed the image of a magnificent topos into a modern modal vision, impregnated with the ancestral fragrance of the sonorities discovered in the countryside, during his childhood. With a meandering biographical journey marked by trials and tribulations after the refuge in Timișoara following the Vienna Diktat, Tudor Jarda gained a vast musical experience (trumpet, violin, piano and composition studies), enhanced by elevated and broad literary, aesthetic and philosophical views, and by a passion for the exact sciences, which were beneficial for the hard work and rigour required by the compositional process. This study captures significant moments that occurred during some of the musical projects (the “Timișoara muzicală” [Musical Timișoara] Festival, “Serile de muzică românească” [Evenings of Romanian Music] broadcast by Radio Timișoara) through which Tudor Jarda offered some of the gems of his repertoire to the music lovers from Banat, on the concert and operatic stages of Timișoara.
Keywords: Tudor Jarda, Banat, Cluj, operatic works, choral works, concerts, performances.
About the author
Constantin-Tufan Stan, born in Bocşa (Caraş-Severin County), on February 13, 1957, is a piano teacher at the “Filaret Barbu” Music High School in Lugoj, a member of the Union of Romanian Composers and Musicologists and a doctoral student in history at the University of Oradea. He is a graduate of the “Ciprian Porumbescu” Music Conservatory of Bucharest (1981), holds a Ph.D. degree in musicology from the “Gheorghe Dima” Music Academy of Cluj-Napoca and in 2009 he was awarded the Prize of the Union of Composers and Musicologists of Romania for historiography. He is an Honorary Citizen of the commune of Belinţ and of the town of Bocşa. In 2018 he was awarded the Diploma and Trophy of Excellence “for his contribution to the development of the municipality of Lugoj in the field of Culture” and the “Pro Cultura Timisiensis” award “for special merits in promoting culture in the Timiș County”. Published books: Rapsodia din Belinţ [Rhapsody from Belinţ], Marineasa, Timişoara, 2003; Zeno Vancea. Etape biografice şi împliniri muzicale [Zeno Vancea. Biographical Stages and Musical Accomplishments], Tim, Reşiţa, 2007; György Kurtág. Reîntoarcerea la matricea spirituală [György Kurtág. Return to the Spiritual Matrix], with a preface by Francisc László, MediaMusica, Cluj-Napoca, 2009; Aurel C. PopoviciRacoviţă. Preotul-compozitor şi profesorul [Aurel C. Popovici-Racoviţă. The Priest-Composer and Teacher], Eurostampa, Timişoara, 2010; Muzicieni din Banat [Musicians from Banat], Eurostampa, Timişoara, 2011; Sabin V. Drăgoi, Monografia muzicală a comunei Belinţ. 90 melodii cu texte culese, notate şi explicate / XXX Coruri aranjate şi armonizate după melodiile poporale culese, notate şi alese din comuna Belinţ [Musical Monograph of the Belinţ Commune. 90 Songs with Collected, Notated and Explained Texts / XXX Choruses Arranged and Harmonized According to the Folk Songs Collected, Notated and Selected from the Belinţ Commune], anastatic edition edited by Constantin-Tufan Stan, with a musicological study by Constantin Catrina and a linguistic study by Simion Dănilă, Eurostampa, Timişoara, 2012; Vasile Ijac – părintele simfonismului bănăţean [Vasile Ijac – the Father of Symphonism in Banat], Eurostampa, Timişoara, 2013; Liviu Tempea. Pianistul-compozitor [Liviu Tempea. The Composer-Pianist], Eurostampa, Timişoara, 2015; Ioan Vidu. Doinitorul Marii Uniri [Ioan Vidu. The Songsmith of the Great Union], with a preface by Elena Chircev, Eurostampa, Timișoara, 2017; George Enescu. Consonanțe bănățene – cronici, evocări, interviuri, omagii, mărturii [George Enescu. Consonances from Banat – Chronicles, Evocations, Interviews, Tributes, Testimonies], Second Edition, Eurostampa, Timișoara, 2018; Banat. Miscellanea musicologica [Banat. Miscellanea Musicologica], Eurostampa, Timișoara, 2018; Ioan Vidu, Creația literară [Literary Creation]. Collection of studies, articles, memoirs, speeches, pamphlets, essays, compiled by Viorel Musicology Papers, XXXV/2, 2020 71 Constantin-Tufan Stan Vasile Ijac and Musical Life in Interwar Cluj Cosma, edition expanded and edited by Constantin-Tufan Stan, Eurostampa, 2019; Eternul feminin. Particularități stilistice în creația vocală a lui Nicolae Coman [The Eternal Feminine. Stylistic Features in Nicolae Coman’s Vocal Works], Eurostampa, Timișoara, 2019; Corul din Chizătău. 1840-2020 [The Choir from Chizătău. 1840-2020], Second Edition revised and expanded by Constantin-Tufan Stan, with a foreword by Valentina Sandu-Dediu, Eurostampa, Timișoara, 2020.
DOI: 10.47809/MP.2023.38.01.03
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