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Private event hosted by the National Theatre of Bucharest. The organiser is exclusively liable for the quality and content of this event!

On 4^th December 2017, 8.00 p.m., in the Studio Hall of the ”I.L. Caragiale” National Theatre of Bucharest, artist Grigore Leșe shall perform his extraordinary Christmas concert - Waiting for Christmas.

The concert shall present to the audience old carols, preserved over generations: host carols, young man carols, maid carols, match-making and love carols, family carols, satirical, war and prisoner’s carols, cosmogonic ones, as well as star songs foreboding the Birth of the Redeemer. Romanian cultural heritage, the carols on ancient rhythms and lyrics shall bring, two days before Saint Nicholas, the light of the Romanian winter holidays into the souls of the ones present at the concert.

“Forever our parents / Were waiting for the fasting / To sing carols through fasting. /Today no one sings carols / No carols, no fasting / Only evil deeds. / Everyone is swearing, / The good and the great. / Beloved Redeemer,/ Pour into their hearts, / Pour Your kindness / To honour Thy Birth/ Pour Your kindness / To honour Thy Birth”.(Romanian carol).

”Over time, I have sought to perform the songs which could be found in people’s souls, however such songs are very rare; therefore I can say that I do not have a very vast repertoire, because above all I wanted to preserve quality; I do not produce music in a conveyor-belt fashion.” Grigore Leșe

Translated by Simona Nichiteanu