Did you know that Mozart as a young boy of 14 prayed every day and wrote down prayer requests, he took from the Christian believers around him? Handel would have landed in a debtor’s prison, were it not for an unexpected turn of events that made him compose the oratorio Messiah, which in turn prevented hundreds of poor people from being locked away. Did you know that Bach’s best works were written during Christian fasting periods? Where did Johann Sebastian get the strength to give comfort to his wife Anna, after going blind, following his eye operations, urging her not to fall into despair, despite his dire predicament? Why is Chopin’s heart buried in the Church of the Holy Cross in Warsaw?
Professor Marina Milić Radović will tell us all about this and much more in her lecture titled Artists and Christianity, on Thursday 29th August at 7 p.m. The lecture will be held on the MD premises, at the parish house of the St. Alexander Nevsky Church in Belgrade (Cara Dusana Street, no 63 b). Admission is free.
Marina Milić Radović, a Professor of Chamber Music at the Novi Sad Academy of Arts, is a renowned pianist, who spent 19 years living in London. As a producer, she collaborated on two records with Rick Wakeman. She is a recognised BBC Radio 3 Artist and a Steinway & Sons Artist. She established the Laza Kostić Fund in London in 1991, and has resided in Novi Sad for the past twenty years.
The examples of living faith in the lives of great musicians and artists have certainly been important spiritual pillars in the life of this lecture’s speaker, who has been invited to open the new season of the NevskyTalks (Orthodox Christian talks), organised by the Missionary Department of the Archdiocese of Belgrade and Karlovci.
