Rap, hip hop, poetry and classical music. Today, 86 young musicians from the Slovenian and Ukrainian youth orchestras and 15 rappers of the younger generation will come together on the stage of Križanke in Ljubljana. As part of the charity concert Alarm – H2SO4 together they wish to draw attention to climate and social justice and, through art, to express their resistance to social and climate injustice.
Today Križanke hosts the charity concert for climate and social justice Alarm – H2SO4 , na katerem bodo slovenski raperji nastopili ob spremljavi orkestra Music For the People . To je projekt, ki ga je The Slovenian Youth Orchestra under the direction of conductor Živa Ploj Peršuh začel načrtovati že januarja, kmalu po izdaji zbirke uporniške poezije H2SO4 avtorjev dr. Igorja Sakside in raperke Masayah . Vojna v Ukrajini je prvotno načrtovanemu projektu dala dodatne razsežnosti in pomen, saj je Ploj Peršuh pomagala pri organizaciji evakuacije mladih glasbenikov iz of the Youth Symphony Orchestra of Ukraine. “Koncept dobrodelnosti se je razvil, ko je ta postala nujnost,” je pred današnjim koncertom povedala Ploj Peršuh.
“Gre za združitev mladih, ki si zaslužijo, da jim damo glas in oder, kakršen je v Križankah,” je še poudarila. “Podnebna in družbena pravičnost je ena od tem, s katerimi se mlade generacije aktivno ukvarjajo še bolj kot mi in se tudi bodo leta 2050,” je dejala Ploj Peršuh, zato je posebej za koncert nastala tudi skladba, s katero želijo orisati, kako bo videti Ljubljana leta 2050. Dodala je še, da so mladi v svojem razmišljanju o podnebnih spremembah, družbenih neenakostih in težavah močnejši od starejših generacij, zato imajo možnost, da se skozi glasbo in interpretacijo umetnosti na svoj način aktivirajo in združijo v želji po spremembah. “Ni ti treba biti govorec na protestih, da si slišan, svoj glas lahko izrazi tudi vrhunski umetnik, glasbenik, raper,” je še dejala dirigentka.
Dr Igor Saksida, Professor of Literature at the Faculty of Education in Ljubljana, who for years has been combining rap and classical Slovenian poetry in various projects, said that it is precisely the expressiveness of rap and its desire to change the world that most connects it with poetry. He sees this as a way of reflecting on the world and changing it through inner resistance. “Young creators know this precisely, which is why they have innovatively reinterpreted Slovenian rebel poetry,” he added ahead of today's concert.
So today, 86 musicians of the youth orchestra, 15 rappers and the violin soloist Maja Horvat will come together on the stage of Križanke. With the orchestra's musical accompaniment, representatives of the younger generation – with Masayah, one of the best-known artists on the Slovenian hip hop scene, and rappers including Emkej, Drill, Vazz, Žena and many others – will, in their own style, activate, explore and interpret poems by the literary giants Prešeren, Župančič, Zajc and Šalamun, collected in a book of Slovenian rebel poetry and on the album H2SO4.
As stated on the Beletrina website, the collection, comprising 35 poems and eight lyrics from the accompanying album, gains particular value from the thematic reflections of 34 contemporaries who, through their work in very different fields, have stood out from the ordinary. These texts seek to show the living message of poetry from its beginnings to our own time, and the anthology also reaches into music, as the acclaimed artists Masayah and HYU have created original musical interpretations of selected rebel poems. “Nothing unusual, since rap music is also a cry of rebellion against a society in which we are constantly searching for freedom and humanity,” they added.
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