Exhibition ’Music Intermezzo – Record Collection of Pavle Beljanski’ at the SASA Gallery

The exhibition ’Music Intermezzo – Record Collection of Pavle Beljanski’ authored by Jasmina Jakšić Subić, senior curator at the Pavle Beljanski Memorial Collection is to open at the SASA Gallery, on Tuesday, 22 June, at 7 p.m. Academician Vladimir Kostić, SASA president will speak at the opening.

This is an enriched version of the exhibition which had its premiere last fall in Novi Sad. It has been organized at the SASA Gallery in the year when the Pavle Beljanski Memorial Collection marks 60 years since its opening to the public.

This collection testifies both to the collector’s taste and his dedication to music, and changes in the musical industry in the interwar period. The collection of gramophone records of Pavle Beljanski comprises more than 90 records for listening at 78 and 80 rpm of representative editions of classical music on shellac records by world-famous label companies such as ’Columbia Records’, ’His Master’s Voice’, ’Pathé’, ’Polydor’.

Various works by distinguished composers of the baroque period, the first Viennese school, romanticism and the early 20th century have been preserved (J. S. Bach, Handel, Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, and the 19th-century giants such as Chopin, Schubert, Liszt, Wagner, Smetana and others) and there are also records of live performances.

The exhibition is accompanied by the catalogue of Pavle Beljanski’s record collection with texts of the author of the project Jasmina Jakišić Subić, senior curator and musicologists Prof. Ira Prodanov, PhD and Milan Milojković, PhD of the Academy of Arts in Novi Sad.

The coordinator of the exhibition is Dr Katarina Živanović, head of the SASA Gallery showroom, while the realization of the exhibition was supported by the Ministry of Culture and Information of the Republic of Serbia.

SASA Gallery is open every day of the week from 10 a.m. to 9 p.m, except Mondays when the Gallery is closed to the visitors and Thursdays when it is open from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.