General info 20th Anniversary
Celebrating 20 years! World Youth Choir Anniversary Celebration
“There is no greater task then to support somebody’s development; help the human being in its striving!” Ivo Andrić, Nobel prize winner From the book of thoughts ’’Signs beside the road’’
The World Youth Choir, a genuine educational and social experience drawing on many vocal traditions aiming at the highest artistic level! For 20 years the World Youth Choir is building bridges between young singers from diverse cultures. Many articles, reports, were written about this project, many stories told, many video and audio files recorded and presented to the world in past 20 years. As well as the philosophy of the ensemble, its value in the choral world from artistic, social and human side! Everything is already told, written, shown! So, there is always a question how to present various projects and events of this wonderful human, social and professional choral experience. How to present the project itself and its current role? How to describe this “child” born in 1989, by group of choral lovers and enthusiasts, led by the ideas of equality and historical quest for multicultural diversity! Diversity is our soul peace. Inner legacy, given to all of us by birth, to be found during our short lives, as balance of ourselves outside and deep inside. Diversity is a “land” of the World Youth Choir for 20 years! This “land” is in all of us who lived in it in past 20 years, as big as more than 1000 young souls all over the globe, with more than 1000 names of singers, conductors, organizers, choral enthusiasts, with borders of dreams and beyond dreams and with the language of the cultural simplicity of each of us. And there it is! Simple lives of each of us, singers, conductors, fans, audience… during past decades, in our personal corners of the globe should be the written word! This is the World Youth Choir after two decades! Our dreams, hard work, constant believe, artistic professionalism and enormous enthusiasm for remarkable idea. We and our lives before the dream, and now, when we are still dreaming! For 20 years the World Youth Choir has been the meeting point for young singers from around the world. More than 1000 individuals have taken part and left an indelible mark on the ensemble, imbuing it with their unique talent, personality, creativity, warmth and humour. From October 18-25, 2009, for the first time in the history of the ensemble, over 200 former singers, conductors and organizers throughout the globe were reunited in order to celebrate the choir’s birthday! Anniversary celebration; simple in its greatness, as a best human present to the World Youth Choir! “Happy birthday, World Youth Choir”, it was said so many times!