August 30, 2019 UPDATE
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Newsroom, 30.08.2019, 20:27
FESTIVAL Between August 31st and
September 22nd Bucharest will be playing venue for the 24th edition of the
George Enescu International Festival, the biggest edition so far. This
edition’s central theme is ‘The world in Harmony’ and the festival’s artistic
director is Vladimir Jurowski. Bucharest and 10 other cities in Romania and
abroad in countries like Germany, France, Italy, Canada and the Republic of
Moldova are also to be hosting events associated with this prestigious
international festival of classical music in honor of Romania’s greatest
composer. The festival is expected to bring together 25 hundred of the world’s
best musicians who will be performing in 84 concerts and recitals. 24 concerts
will be hosted by Romania’s major cities, Cluj-Napoca, Timisoara, Iasi, Sibiu,
Targu Mures, Bacau, Barlad, Targoviste, Satu Mare and Piatra Neamt. The 2019
edition of this festival is expected to include 34 premieres and 25 first
performances by artists like Marion Cotillard, Kiril Petrenko, Mitsuko Uchida
as well as nine of the world’s best orchestras. Concerts and recitals have been
grouped in six big sections: ‘Greatest World Orchestras’, ‘Midnight Concertos’,
‘Chamber Music Recitals and Concertos’, ’21st Century Music’, ‘Mozart Week in
Residence’ and ‘The Composers International Forum’. The festival will also
include conferences, book and album launches as well as other events.
LANGUAGE Romanian
language day has been celebrated on 31st August since 2013. Numerous events,
such as Romanian language courses, theatre performances, debates, painting
sessions and book fairs are being staged by representations of the Romanian
Cultural Institute abroad on this occasion. The Romanian Language Day has been
celebrated in the Republic of Moldova, an ex-soviet Romanian-speaking country
since 1990. The event is celebrated by the Romanian communities in the
neighboring countries, Serbia, Bulgaria, Ukraine and Hungary.
FOOTBALL Lots drawn in Monaco on Friday
pitched Romania’s football champions CFR against Lazio Rome of Italy, Celtic
Glasgow of Scotland and Rennes, a football side from France, in the Europa
League’s group E. CFR eliminated Celtic in the Champions League’s third round.
The Romanians were stopped in their tracks though by Slavia Prague in the
competition’s play-off. Romania’s vice-champions FCSB has also failed to
qualify for the Europa League after conceding defeat to Vitoria Guimares of
Portugal in the return game. The first game had ended in a draw, nil-all.
TENNIS Romania’s best tennis player
Simona Halep (4 WTA) surprisingly lost the match against US challenger Taylor
Townsend (116 WTA) in the second round of the US Open, the year’s last Grand
Slam tournament. Townsend will take on another Romanian Sorana Cîrstea (106
WTA) in the 3rd round. She defeated on Thursday Aliona Bolosva (100
WTA) of Spain. Cirstea is the only Romanian tennis player still on the competition’s
main draw.
(translated by bill)
