On 30 July Agnese Urka, Dārta Treija, Christopher Walsh and Eduards Fiskovičs will give the first performance of Exile Meditations at the Latvian National Railway Museum in Rīga. The half-hour piece sets texts by four of the so-called ‘Hell’s Kitchen’ poets (Latvian post-war displaced persons who eventually settled in New York) and three present-day Middle Eastern refugee writers.
On 22 August Arvydas Kazlauskas and the State Choir “Latvija” under Māris Sirmais will premiere Ave maris stella (combining the medieval Latin hymn with a contemporary poem by Anna Rancāne) at St Gertrude Old Church in Rīga.
