2024: Sa tja patjivake, Ruža (In your honour, Ruža). Songs by Ruža Nikolić-Lakatos (1945-2022) | MMRC – Music and Minorities Research Center (Wittgenstein Project, Grant-DOI 10.55776/Z352)

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Sa tja patjivake, Ruža (In your honour, Ruža).

Songs by Ruža Nikolić-Lakatos (1945-2022)

Concert

After her death in 2022, the singer and "ambassador of Roma culture" Ruža Nikolić-Lakatos left us with a diverse musical legacy, which the MMRC will make available to the public in a digital exhibition. However, Ruža has always wanted her songs to live on. This cannot happen through an exhibition alone – but through active music-making!

Selected personalities from the Austrian Rom*nja music scene will present their versions of songs by Ruža on 3 May 2024 as part of the concert evening "Sa tja patjivake Ruža (In your honour, Ruža). Songs by Ruža Nikolić-Lakatos (1945-2022)" at the mdw - University of Music and Performing Arts.

Ursula Hemetek © Hanna Fasching

Programme:

Opening and presentation of the MMRC’s project “Ružake gila – Ružas Lieder – Ruža's songs”: Ursula Hemetek (director of MMRC)

Music:

Ruža’s Kids

Moša Šišić & Family

Melinda Stoika, Ferry Janoska & Friends

Afterwards: Drinks & finger food by project mosaic

Programme PDF to download

Date:
Friday, 3 May 2024, 19:00 (CET)

Doors 18:30

Location:
mdw – University for Music and Performing Arts

Joseph-Haydn-Saal
Anton-von-Webern-Platz 1
1030 Wien, Österreich

Free entry!

The location and toilets are wheelchair-accessible.

If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to contact us: mmrc@mdw.ac.at

The title of the event refers to Ruža Nikolić-Lakatos' own approach to music – for Ruža, her music was a form of interaction with the audience, or, as Ursula Hemetek puts it, a gift that Ruža gives them. In many recordings of her songs and concerts you can hear the pithy phrase: "Sa tumare patjivake" (Romanes, translates to: In your (pl.) honour).

For Ursula Hemetek, Ruža Nikolić-Lakatos not only had a formative influence on her ethnomusicological research, but they also developed a long-standing friendship. The recordings of Ruža's songs in the archive are like gems that need to be brought to light and thus made to sparkle – both in terms of accessibility for a broader public and through active music-making. In the reinterpretation of her songs, Ruža's music becomes a living archive of deep emotions, relationships and social circumstances.

With the concert evening "Sa tja patjivake, Ruža (In your honour, Ruža). Songs by Ruža Nikolić-Lakatos (1945-2022)" and the digital exhibition project "Ružake gila - Ruža's songs", which explores Ruža Nikolić-Lakatos' musical legacy, the MMRC wants to help ensure that Ruža Nikolić-Lakatos' songs live on even after her death.

Sa tja patjivake, Ruža (In your honour, Ruža).

Songs by Ruža Nikolić-Lakatos (1945-2022)

Programme:

Date: Friday, 3 May 2024, 19:00 (CET)

Location: mdw – University for Music and Performing Arts

Date:
Friday, 3 May 2024, 19:00 (CET)

Location:
mdw – University for Music and Performing Arts