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AN ADAMIÈ (1912–1995)
Bojan Adamiè’s Chanson and Festival Yugoslavian Chanson – Rogaška
Summary
Bojan Adamiè started writing chansons as a result of his collaboration with the Slovene
chansonnier Frane Milèinski Je ek. Adamiè is the author of numerous chansons, songs
and couplets that have been performed in television and radio shows by theater actors.
Moreover, he teamed up with the singer-songwriter Marko Brecelj on his album Cocktail.
In the 1970s, Adamiè took part in the evenings of chanson Pesmi svobodnih oblik
(Free-Form Poems) that were organized as part of the Slovene popular music festival
Slovenska popevka. From 1982 on, he composed chansons based on the lyrics of Slovene
poets, which were mostly performed by the singer Meri Avsenak and the band Šanson in
kitara (Chanson and Guitar). They performed both at home and abroad. After a concert in
the town of Rogaška Slatina, an idea emerged to organize a national level event, and soon
after, the Festival Yugoslavian Chanson - Rogaška was born. Among others, Bojan
Adamiè set to music the poetry of Lily Novy and Sreèko Kosovel and a number of texts by
Ervin Fritz. The most typical are his renderings of texts with war and anti-war themes by
Slovene poets and arrangements of folk songs on the same themes. Adamiè passed his
experience with chanson on to future generations and held lectures at primary and
secondary schools for Slovenian Jeunesses Musicals etc. Today, he is considered a
pioneer of Slovene chanson and one of its key authors.2
2 Prevod Aljoša Vršèaj.
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Bojan Adamiè’s Chanson and Festival Yugoslavian Chanson – Rogaška
Summary
Bojan Adamiè started writing chansons as a result of his collaboration with the Slovene
chansonnier Frane Milèinski Je ek. Adamiè is the author of numerous chansons, songs
and couplets that have been performed in television and radio shows by theater actors.
Moreover, he teamed up with the singer-songwriter Marko Brecelj on his album Cocktail.
In the 1970s, Adamiè took part in the evenings of chanson Pesmi svobodnih oblik
(Free-Form Poems) that were organized as part of the Slovene popular music festival
Slovenska popevka. From 1982 on, he composed chansons based on the lyrics of Slovene
poets, which were mostly performed by the singer Meri Avsenak and the band Šanson in
kitara (Chanson and Guitar). They performed both at home and abroad. After a concert in
the town of Rogaška Slatina, an idea emerged to organize a national level event, and soon
after, the Festival Yugoslavian Chanson - Rogaška was born. Among others, Bojan
Adamiè set to music the poetry of Lily Novy and Sreèko Kosovel and a number of texts by
Ervin Fritz. The most typical are his renderings of texts with war and anti-war themes by
Slovene poets and arrangements of folk songs on the same themes. Adamiè passed his
experience with chanson on to future generations and held lectures at primary and
secondary schools for Slovenian Jeunesses Musicals etc. Today, he is considered a
pioneer of Slovene chanson and one of its key authors.2
2 Prevod Aljoša Vršèaj.
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