It is in this special concert event that Goran Bregović encapsulates his vision of coexistence in the world.
This message comes from a son of Sarajevo — a city once Roman, then Byzantine, for centuries Ottoman, later Austro-Hungarian, Yugoslav, and finally Bosnian — home to Jews, Muslims, Orthodox Christians, and Catholics alike. A “Jerusalem of Europe,” just a few hours’ drive from the Italian border, long contested and torn apart by wars throughout history, now portrayed through a concert for three solo violins and symphony orchestra.
Each violin represents one of Sarajevo’s three communicating souls, expressed through Western classical, Eastern, and klezmer musical traditions — a living and musical testament to the possibility of listening to one another.
The Belly Button of the World is a symphonic project written for solo violin, choir, Gypsy band, and symphony orchestra. The violin is performed according to Western classical, klezmer, and Eastern traditions by three different soloists, symbolically uniting the three religions that are, at once, Sarajevo’s greatest treasure and its greatest curse.
The arrangements for this work were entrusted to four Serbian composers: Aleksandar Sedlar, Isidora Žebeljan, Ninoslav Ademović, and Ognjan Radivojević.

Program:
Prologo
I Lettera
II Lettera
III Lettera
Finale

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