The 20th anniversary edition of the MERIDIAN International Festival, one of the most important contemporary music festivals in the country, organized by the Union of Composers and Musicologists of Romania, will take place between November 1 and 9, in Bucharest, Cluj-Napoca, Timisoara and Iasi.According to a press release, the theme of the festival, SONIMAGICON, explores the close relationship between music and image, in all its forms, through an eclectic feast: video-art (3D animations, short films, live video interactions) and new music, contemporary dance and performance, fashion recital-exhibition, underground percussion, hybrid radio-tv show, electronic music and sound-performing installation.''The Romanian Composers and Musicologists' Union celebrates this year the 20th edition of the MERIDIAN International Festival, which has gained notoriety among the most important events in the country dedicated to new music. In 2025, the festival will take place between November 1 and 9 with the theme SONIMAGICON: Sound, Image, Magic, Icon(ic). Established in recent years as a chamber festival focused on interdisciplinary collaborations and electronic music, MERIDIAN, organized by SNR-SIMC, aims to attract the public from Bucharest, Cluj-Napoca, Timisoara and Iasi to the colorful and always surprising world of current musical creation through a unique and diverse program that contains 28 events with exciting titles and proposals,'' the organizers inform.The international scope of this festival is given by the integration of the organizer SNR-SIMC (a structure established within UCMR) into the International Society for Contemporary Music (ISCM), the oldest and most powerful organization of this kind in the world, with representatives in over 50 countries. The festival aims each year to structure the events within the festival under suggestive and powerful metaphorical umbrellas, meant to attract and stimulate the public's imagination, the press release states.The festival is financed by UCMR, ICR and UCMR-ADA.The complete program can be consulted on the festival website: https://snr-simc.org/meridian-festival/.
Some dinners are eaten. Others are remembered. At Corinthia Grand Hotel du Boulevard, the past few months have unfolded like a quiet culinary opera. One by one, Europe’s most celebrated chefs arrived, took over the kitchen of Boulevard 73 and left behind more than menus; they left stories. Now, on December 4, the curtain falls. […]
HORIZON CITY, a €130 million residential project, is emerging as one of the most solid and forward-thinking developments in the Pipera area—both through its scale and through the modern direction it sets for the new residential standards in the north. Developed across nearly 23,000 sqm, with 699 apartments and 926 parking spaces, the project brings […]
Romania’s National Forest Administration, or Romsilva, announced that it is putting over 16,000 Christmas trees up for sale over the winter in a press release published on Thursday, November 27. The trees can be purchased directly from the offices of the forestry districts. Prices range between RON 17 (EUR 3.3) for a spruce...
Lot 3 Pietroasele–Buzău of Romania's A7 highway, also known as the Moldova highway, was inaugurated on Thursday, November 27. The newly inaugurated segment is 13.9 km long. The A7 connects Romania’s historic regions of Muntenia, the southern part of the country, with Moldova, the eastern part. “We are opening another 13 km of the Moldova Motorway […]
The City Hall of Sinaia, a popular mountain town roughly 120 km north of Bucharest, announced that a new attraction, the alpine coaster on Pârtia Nouă, will officially open on December 1. The installation, located in the ski area near the Sinaia Gondola, features what the authorities say is the longest track of its kind […]
The Romanian national team debuted with a victory in Group A of the Women’s Handball World Championship, organized in the Netherlands and Germany. Romania won 33–24 (13–12) against Croatia in the Ahoy Arena in Rotterdam on Thursday, November 27. The Romanian team dominated the match in the second half, left backer Sorina-Maria Grozav scoring 7 […]
