Requiem for Ion and Doina Aldea-Teodorovici at Central Cemetery

On October 30, it will be 17 years of the death of couple Ion and Doina Aldea-Teodorovici. A requirement for the artists will be held on this day at their grave in Chisinau. The traditional pop music contest “Two Twin Hearts” will take place during November 13-15. This year, the festival is at its seventh edition, Info-Prim Neo reports. The requiem will take place at the Central Cemetery located on Armeneasca Street starting at 12.00. “All those who loved and sang the songs of Ion and Doina Aldea-Teodorovici are welcome to the ceremony. More than 100 young people came to the cemetery last year. We expect to see as many this year as well,” Doina's mother Eugenia Marin, who is the director of the “Two Twin Hearts” contest, told Info-Prim Neo's reporter. After the ceremony, all those who want will go to Hartopul-Mic to participate in the Best Poem in Memory of Ion and Doina Aldea-Teodorovici contest. [In Chisinau, students of a number of high schools and universities will carry out an awareness-raising campaign about Ion and Doina Aldea-Teodorovici at Mihai Eminescu's bust in the central park on Friday, October 30, starting at 13.30. A group of people will go on a commemoration march from the monument to Ruler Stephan the Great to the Central Cemetery at 14.00.] Activities in memory of Ion and Doina Aldea-Teodorovici will be carried out in Romania as well. On October 30, the Association of Young Bessarabians in Iasi will hold a street meeting to promote the Romanian values supported by Ion and Doina Aldea-Teodorovici. “The event is aimed at reminding the Romanians from everywhere about those who were the first to plead for declaring Romanian the official language in Moldova after 1989 and had the courage to express their unionist ideas through songs,” the Association says in a communique. [The Bucharest League of Bessarabian Students, the Association of Bessarabian Students and the action group “Noii Golani” on October 29 will go to Cosereni in Ialomita county, where the two artists died in an accident.] The international contest-festival “Two Twin Hearts” will bring together 43 competitors – 19 at the children's section and 24 at the adults' section. Owing to a shortage of funds, this year the contest will include only the singing stage. The Laureate Gala will take place at the National Palace on November 15. Tickets cost between 50 and 100 lei. Ion and Doina Aldea-Teodorovici lost their lives in a road accident when returning to Chisinau from Bucharest. On the night of October 30, 1992, the car on which they were traveling crashed into a tree near Cosereni settlement, which is located 49 kilometers from Romania's capital.