{"id":1012502,"date":"2026-05-03T15:57:39","date_gmt":"2026-05-03T12:57:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rri.ro\/?p=1012502"},"modified":"2026-04-30T18:06:59","modified_gmt":"2026-04-30T15:06:59","slug":"music-time-brancusing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rri.ro\/en\/our-shows\/music-time\/music-time-brancusing-id1012502.html","title":{"rendered":"Music Time: BrancuSING"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>With 2026 officially declared as the Year of Constantin Br\u00e2ncu\u015fi, the artist\u2019s 150<sup>th<\/sup> birthday anniversary was celebrated, among other things, with an international tour of concerts and lectures called BrancuSING. The tour started in Bucharest and concluded in New York on May 1, having covered T\u00e2rgu-Jiu, Viena, Budapest, Rome, Madrid, Porto, and Paris.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>At the centre of the event were<\/em> <em>the art historian Doina Lemny, a leading European expert in Br\u00e2ncu\u0219i\u2019s work, and two remarkable musicians: the soprano Rodica Vic\u0103, one of the most versatile and original voices of her generation, as well as the initiator of cross-disciplinary projects focusing on the dialogue between music, cultural memory and artistic identity, and the pianist Angela Dr\u0103ghicescu, a chamber music professor at the University of Delaware and associate professor at The Juilliard School in New York, but also an indefatigable promoter of George Enescu\u2019s works.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>While Br\u00e2ncu\u015fi\u2019s role in redefining universal sculpture is widely recognized, his love for and interest in music is something the public may be less familiar with. BrancuSing highlighted the dialogue between sculpture and soundscape through performances of works by Erik Satie, Anton Pann, George Gershwin and Agust\u00edn Lara, as well as soprano and piano lieder series commissioned especially for this tour to the Romanian composers Sabina Ulubeanu and Radu Mihalache, and inspired from Constantin Br\u00e2ncu\u0219i\u2019s work and worldview.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>The soprano Rodica Vic\u0103 told me how the selection of the music pieces performed as part of the BrancuSing project reflects one of Br\u00e2ncu\u015fi\u2019s most striking features:<\/em> <em>the way he plays with the shifting boundaries between high culture and low culture.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/soundcloud%253Atracks%253A2312157785&amp;color=%23ff5500&amp;auto_play=false&amp;hide_related=false&amp;show_comments=true&amp;show_user=true&amp;show_reposts=false&amp;show_teaser=true&amp;visual=true\" width=\"100%\" height=\"300\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<div style=\"font-size: 10px; color: #cccccc; line-break: anywhere; word-break: normal; overflow: hidden; white-space: nowrap; text-overflow: ellipsis; font-family: Interstate,Lucida Grande,Lucida Sans Unicode,Lucida Sans,Garuda,Verdana,Tahoma,sans-serif; font-weight: 100;\"><a style=\"color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;\" title=\"RadioRomaniaInternational\" href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/radioromaniainternational\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">RadioRomaniaInternational<\/a> \u00b7 <a style=\"color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;\" title=\"Music Time: BrancuSING\" href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/radioromaniainternational\/music-time-brancusing\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Music Time: BrancuSING<\/a><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With 2026 officially declared as the Year of Constantin Br\u00e2ncu\u015fi, the artist\u2019s 150th birthday anniversary was celebrated, among other things, with an international tour of concerts and lectures called BrancuSING. 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