Enescu Day at MINA – Romanian Poem: Immersive Experience

On the occasion of the anniversary of the great Romanian composer George Enescu, whose birth is 143 years this year, ARTEXIM, the organizer of the George Enescu International Festival and Competition, celebrates ENESCU DAY and announces the new series of productions that the Enescu Festival will dedicate to at the next edition, artistic interdisciplinarity.

Thus, on Monday, August 19, 2024, starting at 17:00, at MINA – Museum of Immersive New Art (Strada George Constantinescu No. 2-4, Bucharest), the immersive video project George Enescu – Romanian Poem will be presented for the first time: Immersive Experience.

There will be 4 successive screenings (at 5:00 p.m., 5:35 p.m., 6:10 p.m.; 6:45 p.m.) and access is free, based on booking a zero-value ticket from the Eventim.ro website.

The XXVII edition of the George Enescu International Festival will take place between August 24 and September 21, 2025, under the High Patronage of the President of Romania. A cultural project financed by the Government of Romania through the Ministry of Culture, the Enescu Festival will bring, in addition to the 6 series of traditional concerts, this new series dedicated to artistic interdisciplinarity.

George Enescu (1881-1955) was 16 and a half years old in 1897, when he composed Poema română, his first work to which he associated a number of opuses – a fact synonymous with his high sense of self-criticism.

Pascal Bentoiu, among the most respected connoisseurs of Enescu’s work, considered that this was the first extensive Romanian work that managed to establish itself in one of the great musical centers of the world (because the first absolute audition, held in Paris in 1898, meant a great critical success, being followed by dozens of laudatory chronicles).

Romanian poem op. 1 ends with an orchestral version of the Royal Anthem composed by Eduard Hübsch, which has become the national anthem for almost seven decades since it was first officially sung in 1884.

From 1947, with the establishment of communism, and until the Revolution of 1989, the Romanian Poem could no longer be sung. The one who reintroduced it into the repertoire was the conductor Horia Andreescu, 31 years ago, at the Romanian Academy.

A variant of the work was recorded by Electrecord, in the 90s, with the same orchestra and with the same conductor, the video work George Enescu – Poema Română: Immersive Experience being accompanied by this phonogram, made available by Electrecord.

The immersive video project George Enescu – Romanian Poem: Immersive Experience is made by Les Ateliers Nomad and supported by JTI – Immersive Experience.