The juvenile operetta „The golden maiden“ by maestro Georgi Atanasov – between past and future
Keywords:
Dimo Boychev, Maestro Georgi Atanasov, the Children’s Musical Band, the Children’s and the Juvenile Operetta, “The Golden Maiden”Abstract
Maestro Georgi Atanasov is recognized as the founder of Bulgarian music and stage art. His operas have been staged or performed in concert, albeit insufficiently; musical-aesthetic and theoretical assessments of them have evolved over the decades. But the Maestro's children's and adolescent operettas of great musical, educational, and educational value, presented with success between 1910 and 1935 by Dimo Boychev and his Children's Musical Bands, have been gradually forgotten since the 1930s and exist only as manuscripts in state archival holdings. Building on what has already been published about them, this paper seeks to be more specific in its musical and dramaturgical analysis of the juvenile operetta "The Golden Girl". An attempt at a contemporary evaluation of the composition is linked to ideas about its present and future return to the stage, in school and after-school activities at the middle and upper school levels, and in the activities of the new private music centers and formations.
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