Слово за Райна Кацарова
Oration about Raina Katsarova

Summary/Abstract: With deep conviction and clear conscience I rank Raina Katsarova among the emanation of the Bulgarian people, among those great Bulgarians whose names will re­ main forever. When the Institute of Music at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences was established (1948), Raina Katsarova was put in charge of the music folklore section. Having been a collaborator of Vassil Stoin, she took from him and introduced into all of us the flame of the collectors of the great golden treasure. This eminent trio - Raina Katsarova, Ivan Kachulev, Elem Stoin - brought with themselves a great tradition from the Ethnographical Institute, where they worked before coming to the Institute of Music. That was the great science of Ivan Sishmanov, Mihail Arnaudov, Hristo Vakarelski. She worked hard to create a centre for collecting and studying Bulgarian folk music, which can be compared with the most prestigious ones. She headed the passionate work of collecting and studying the music folklore from all regions of Bul­ garia, she gathered a nucleus of folklorists, who shared her love for and devotion to the national music folk art. I will not enumerate the merits of the collective and research activities of our teacher in everything connected with ethnomusicology - the first solid stones of paving the way in ethnochoreology, in studying folk rituals and customs accompanied with mu­ sic, in studying folk songs from all over the country, in comparative studies, folk polyphony, town folklore etc. During the years when relations with the Western world were undesirable, Raina Katsarova was the only ethnomusicologist who was not afraid. She was the restless courier of our folklore musical art who connected us with Bela Bartok, Zoltan Kodai, Mod Karpeles, Barbara Crader, Albert Lloyd.

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