'Memory bridge' on Radio Moldova
The listeners of Radio Moldova had nice surprises today when it is marked 20 years of the Flower Bridge, which was one of the most important events in the Moldovan-Romanian relations in the post-war period. Twenty years ago, that event was covered widely by Moldovan and Romanian radio and television stations. In order to remember those events, journalists from Teleradio-Moldova Company and their colleagues from Bucharest and Iasi made today a new bridge, called a Memory Bridge.
The broadcast schedule today includes three 'duplex' radio programs Chisinau – Bucharest that will involve personalities from such areas as culture, international relations and education, participants in the May 6 1990 events and persons who promote the cooperation between Moldova and Romanian in different fields, Info-Prim Neo reports.
The first radio program was broadcast starting at 10.05 and involved the head of the publishing house “Litera” Anatol Vidrascu, actor and theater director Petru Hadarca, who staged plays in Chisinau and in Bucharest, musicologist Svetlana Bivol, the head of the National Philharmonic. Academician Dinu Cezulescu was the invitee of the moderators of Radio Bucuresti, Razvan Dolea and Valentin Protopopescu.
The participants in the first program that focused on cooperation in culture remembered relevant moments of the first Flower Bridge. Romania welcomed the Moldovan listeners with the song “I bear you in my mind”.
Musicologist Svetlana Bivol said the Romanian artists have permanently participated in the cultural process in Moldova. She refereed to the concerts given in Chisinau by such famous singers as Vasile Seicaru, Stefan Ruha, Emil Simon, Victor Dumanescu, young pianist Oana Crisanu from Cluj, and others.
The Moldovan musicians also cooperate with Romanian institutions. Moldova's Iurie Florea works as artistic director at the Opera House in Bucharest, while Ion Agafita, the artistic director of the Symphonic Orchestra in Chisinau, was recently employed at the Cluj orchestra “Transilvania”. Svetlana Bivol also said that in September, the Philharmonic will open a jubilee season that will involve Romanian artists, including the great Romanian composer and conductor Corneliu Dumbarveanu, who settled in the Netherlands.
