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Biennale Zagreb, Vatroslav Lisinski Concert Hall, and Croatian Radiotelevision. The music combines traditional elements of opera and the modern music hall, using the technique of "persiflage" on the melodic-harmonic-rhythmic patterns of the music of consumer society (S.
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Croatian pop and rock stars, music for sport events, and television jingles and commercials. He insisted on the freedom to explore various musical styles and forms, searching for a fusion that
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Kuljerić felt definitive limitations of the avant-garde movement in the beginning of the '80s with its aesthetics not allowing him further development of his musical ideas. He investigated the deeper layers of his musical heritage with many references—direct and indirect—to
Croatian folk music and
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a monolithic work for soloists, choir, and orchestra written on an ancient
Croatian glagolitic text of the Catholic mass (the live in concert recording CD published by Cantus – four nominations for PORIN – the most important Croatian discographic award) and
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tradition, trying to incorporate the positive experiences of musical avant-garde. Since then his output demonstrated a desire to write in a more direct and communicative style, reflecting the questioning of modernist theories and practice.
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based on
Shakespeare's drama, premiered in 1987 at Zagreb's Croatian National Theater. The mechanism of the crimes that rule over human history and govern human destinies are the crucial themes of this
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Reich's reference to "street music") and integrating them into an individual musical language. It is a familiar process to composers throughout the history of
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festival of contemporary music. Kuljerić was also active giving performances abroad in such countries as the United States, the former USSR, Spain, Italy, and
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composer and conductor. His large opus followed the stylistic changes and evolutions of 20th and 21st century music.
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a monumental composition scored for soloists, chorus, and orchestra. The work on his new opera,
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featuring the heroine in a historical drama on love and politics, is unfinished.
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opera fable based on George Orwell's novel. It premiered at the 2003
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writers, and performers. Some of the works from that period include
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191:Riky Levi,
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366:cantus.hr
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