{"id":94602,"date":"2025-07-01T10:52:13","date_gmt":"2025-07-01T10:52:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/2025.laulupidu.ee\/news\/tule-ja-saa-osa-sellest-kuidas-laulukaarest-saab-vaatemanguline-louend\/"},"modified":"2025-07-01T11:46:16","modified_gmt":"2025-07-01T11:46:16","slug":"come-and-witness-how-the-song-festival-arch-transforms-into-a-spectacular-canvas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/2025.laulupidu.ee\/en\/news\/come-and-witness-how-the-song-festival-arch-transforms-into-a-spectacular-canvas\/","title":{"rendered":"Come and witness how the Song Festival Arch transforms into a spectacular canvas"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Tickets are available <\/strong>for the concert on Saturday<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

While tickets for the Sunday Grand Concert of the XXVIII Song Celebration \u201cIseoma\u201d \/Kinship\/ are sold out, over 13,000 tickets are still available for the Opening Concert on Saturday. This year, the Opening Concert focuses on dialects, with stunning visuals projected onto the Song Festival Arch that blend the onstage music and text into a cohesive artistic whole.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Opening Concert makes a symbolic journey through Estonia, introducing various dialect regions and giving a platform to both classical and contemporary composers. According to the artistic director of the Song Celebration, Heli J\u00fcrgenson, the Opening Concert highlights the richness of the Estonian language, the playfulness of dialects, and their unique sound.
\u201cThis is a tribute to the diversity of our mother tongue \u2013 we are all different, yet together we form one nation. The concert title \u2018Iseoma\u2019<\/em> emphasizes this unity in diversity,\u201d says J\u00fcrgenson.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The concert will feature select choirs performing with the Estonian National Symphony Orchestra. These select choirs are among the strongest in the country; they have expressed a desire to perform at the Opening Concert and have therefore taken on a slightly more demanding repertoire.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In addition to music and text, this year\u2019s Opening Concert will be enhanced by visuals created by animation artist Sander Joone and director Mikk J\u00fcrjens. The animations will be projected onto the Song Festival Arch during the second half of the concert, when it will be darker outside.
\u201cWhat Joone and J\u00fcrjens have created is truly beautiful and adds another dimension to the concert. The idea of the arch as a canvas is very appealing, but in the light of July it\u2019s also a bit risky. Therefore, the effectiveness of the visuals depends a great deal on the weather and lighting,\u201d said Ave Sopp, music editor of the Song and Dance Celebration Foundation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Opening Concert concludes with Rein Rannap\u2019s cantata \u201cBeautiful Land\u201d<\/em> (Ilus maa<\/em>), composed in 1982 using texts from Hando Runnel\u2019s poetry collection \u201cThe Purple of Red Evenings\u201d<\/em> (Punaste \u00f5htute purpur<\/em>).
\u201cRannap himself has said that he has reinterpreted the piece in a completely new way and that the harmonic language is entirely different. But the feeling it evokes in the singers remains the same \u2013 \u2018Beautiful Land\u2019<\/em> embraces the singers like a cradle,\u201d said Sopp.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Tickets are available for the concert on Saturday While tickets for the Sunday Grand Concert of the XXVIII Song Celebration \u201cIseoma\u201d \/Kinship\/ are sold out, over 13,000 tickets are still available for the Opening Concert on Saturday. This year, the…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":83440,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"advgb_blocks_editor_width":"","advgb_blocks_columns_visual_guide":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[50,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-94602","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pressiteated-en","category-news"],"acf":[],"author_meta":{"display_name":"admin","author_link":"https:\/\/2025.laulupidu.ee\/en\/author\/admin\/"},"featured_img":"https:\/\/2025.laulupidu.ee\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/galerii-2023-scaled.jpg","coauthors":[],"tax_additional":{"categories":{"linked":["Press releases<\/a>","News<\/a>"],"unlinked":["Press releases<\/span>","News<\/span>"]}},"comment_count":"0","relative_dates":{"created":"Posted 10 months ago","modified":"Updated 10 months ago"},"absolute_dates":{"created":"Posted on 1. Jul 2025","modified":"Updated on 1. Jul 2025"},"absolute_dates_time":{"created":"Posted on 1. Jul 2025 10:52","modified":"Updated on 1. Jul 2025 11:46"},"featured_img_caption":"default","series_order":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/2025.laulupidu.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94602","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/2025.laulupidu.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/2025.laulupidu.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2025.laulupidu.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2025.laulupidu.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=94602"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/2025.laulupidu.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94602\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":94603,"href":"https:\/\/2025.laulupidu.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94602\/revisions\/94603"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2025.laulupidu.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/83440"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/2025.laulupidu.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94602"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2025.laulupidu.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94602"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2025.laulupidu.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94602"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}