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Symphonic Matinees of Jeunesses Musicales
Slovenia: The First Two Decades1
Tjaša Ribizel Popič
Univerza v Ljubljani
University of Ljubljana
The main focus of my paper is the analysis of music criticism of the con-
certs of the Jeunesses Musicales Slovenia – more accurately, the Symphon-
ic Matinees performed in the period from their beginnings in the 1970s
to the 1990s. Due to the vast amount of material, I decided to only in-
clude the first two decades of music criticism on the Symphonic Mati-
nees, and also to include the year 1991, to include the year of Slovenia’s
independence.
The paper consists of two main segments. In the first part, I present
the early stages of the Symphonic Matinees, summarising the surviving
archives from the archives of Jeunesses Musicales Slovenia and second-
ary literature, in particular by the 25th- and 50th-anniversary issues of the
Glasbena mladina magazine. The second part gives the data on the differ-
ent aspects of individual performances of the concert programme: the date
(year) of the performance, author, publication, and the critical reception.
On the basis of this data, I aim to discern the main trends in music crit-
icism in the Glasbena mladina magazine (hereinafter referred to as GM),
which began publication in May 1970, and in the daily press – the two daily
newspapers that were published continuously during the period under con-
sideration, i.e. Delo and Dnevnik. 1
1 The underlying research for this article was carried out within the framework of the
project The Music of Youth after 1945 and the Musical Youth of Slovenia (J6-3135).
The research project is (co-)funded by the Slovenian Research Agency.
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Symphonic Matinees of Jeunesses Musicales
Slovenia: The First Two Decades1
Tjaša Ribizel Popič
Univerza v Ljubljani
University of Ljubljana
The main focus of my paper is the analysis of music criticism of the con-
certs of the Jeunesses Musicales Slovenia – more accurately, the Symphon-
ic Matinees performed in the period from their beginnings in the 1970s
to the 1990s. Due to the vast amount of material, I decided to only in-
clude the first two decades of music criticism on the Symphonic Mati-
nees, and also to include the year 1991, to include the year of Slovenia’s
independence.
The paper consists of two main segments. In the first part, I present
the early stages of the Symphonic Matinees, summarising the surviving
archives from the archives of Jeunesses Musicales Slovenia and second-
ary literature, in particular by the 25th- and 50th-anniversary issues of the
Glasbena mladina magazine. The second part gives the data on the differ-
ent aspects of individual performances of the concert programme: the date
(year) of the performance, author, publication, and the critical reception.
On the basis of this data, I aim to discern the main trends in music crit-
icism in the Glasbena mladina magazine (hereinafter referred to as GM),
which began publication in May 1970, and in the daily press – the two daily
newspapers that were published continuously during the period under con-
sideration, i.e. Delo and Dnevnik. 1
1 The underlying research for this article was carried out within the framework of the
project The Music of Youth after 1945 and the Musical Youth of Slovenia (J6-3135).
The research project is (co-)funded by the Slovenian Research Agency.
245
