Musical Evenings in St Donat celebrated their 40th anniversary in 2000, thus becoming the second oldest festival in Croatia. Organizers, art directors, artists, musicologists and their faithful audience have written their impressions and comments to mark the event. The editor Jagoda Martinčević has collected a whole range of valuable texts about the Musical Evenings during their first forty years of existence and published them as a monograph. It is a work of great importance to us, since its texts – collected and sorted patiently by Jagoda Martinčević with a great help from the festival personnel - provides the basic source of information for our web site. If you are interested in the history of our festival, take a look at the texts by our notable authors who will take you to a world of early Musical Evenings as they perceived it long ago.
40th anniversary
Four decades of the Musical Evenings in St. Donat's do not represent a long period if measured in terms of tradition, and yet, in the kontext of human time, they are a part of our history, a measure of our success, the justification of our efforts...
Musical Evenings in St Donat celebrated their 40th anniversary in 2000, thus becoming the second oldest festival in Croatia. Organizers, art directors, artists, musicologists and their faithful audience have written their impressions and comments to mark the event.
