Again, after 10 years…
28 August 2007
The nostalgia of the years that had passed, the nostalgia of the days that aren’t coming back... that’s what captured my soul on the stage of the Mamaia Festival in 2007, 10 years after I had won the 1st place and the Mamaia Trophy.
When I said this phraze on the stage, I couldn’t help a bitter smile, caused by a strange grimace on the face of an exceptional artist with an unrivalled voice, whom I’ve admired for so long, from the begining of her carrier. I’ve also remembered that the artist keeps on giving me the ostentatious cold treatment without any incidents caused by me, ever. It’s sad when people don’t understand themselves, don’t assume their own mistakes, don’t resigne themselves on „what I would have wanted to be, what I could have been and what I am”, because the new generations aren’t responsable for their discontent, for their frustrations. It’s especially important that the passing of time creates legends, memories, beautiful dreams and history is an advantage, not an obstacle.
This is yet another subject I promise to recommence, now we have other issues to discuss: 2007 Mamaia Festival-Edition 37.
The ultimate premiere: myself, member of the jury at Mamaia Festival!you’ve probably saw me nervous and stressed out. I didn’t think it were that difficult to give grades...
I liked the competitors for the interpretation contest. The more I remembered what I went through when I was in their shoes, the more I began to feel close to them. And I felt like gathering them around to tell them how beautiful and good they are, that thy have their whole life ahead of them, and regardless of the outcome, each one of them is a winner!
Congratulations to everyone!
I can’t help having also unpleasant memories though... Someone was intensely criticizing Lucia Dumitrescu’s choice of interpreting the song of the late Laura Stoica-„In Loneliness”, saying that nobody is aloud to „touch” her memory...
I was speechless! I can understand what made her think like this but I would have liked to tell her that it is unconcievable! The fact that Lucia let her emotions speak in her performance and in this beautiful song can only remind us of the golden moments in Laura’s brilliant life. I’m almost certain that Laura would have wanted her songs to remain forever in our mind, to be performed by many singers. I don’t believe Frank Sinatra, from above, would say that the people who sing his songs, in different contexts, good or bad, are mocking his memory... It’s absurd.
Frank Sinatra lives on through his songs. The same thing goes for Laura, for all the people who didn’t know her personally, but only through the perfection of her art.
Congratulations Lucia for your choice! Congratulations for the prize!
Good luck in your carrier and... be wise!
Another edition of the Mamaia Festival has ended. So many sleepless nights, so much work, so many forces combined... The Constanta County Council, The National Television and everybody who make so many efforts to carry on the tradition deserve every compliment. In a context in which the actual quality of music, of the interpretation, of the ochestration and the voices do not represent essential ingredients in a hit for most genres promoted by commercial record labels and radio stations, Mamaia Festival is determined to require quality. It’s determined to hope that things aren’t exactly the way that those who now seem to be making the rules in Romanian music, say it is. There seems to be a tendency of levelling talents, of smothering artistic personality just to come near to the commercial ideal, which is totally wrong.
Now that there are many technical posibilities to make a fake record seem real. Antares has invaded our scene by the deceptive playback... There will be better times. Moreover, I’m begining to feel them. The story of Milli Vanilli came out and they weren’t that comfortable. Th epubilc that counts deserves the truth. Good for those who are trying to reveal it! Congratulations Mamaia!
The Gala of the Festival brought me a lot of joy. Along with one of our greatest composers, an exceptional guitar player (member of the jury), I granted two 2nd prizes, in the composition section. And I remembered my first years as a singer when, performing with „Gasca de Acasa”, Eugen Mihaiescu was writing especially for me „Eu ma duc la Cununie” and „Stiu Ca Exist”, two songs that stood as a milestone in my carrier.
I can’t believe it has been 10 years! I can’t believe that, after all that happened in my life and my carrier, the anxious feeling the stage gave me is still there!
My life brought me back after all this time. Now I wonder: what will come after another 10 years?
To underline even more this time passing, I received a text message from a dear friend „I don’t know if you had time to notice how The Blue becomes deeper and deeper. It’s like you’d say that fall is unnoticeably getting closer.” How can it be?
God, there is so little time left...
