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Reykjavik Arts Festival (Listah‡t’ ’ Reykjav’k) Late May to early June in even-numbered years Originally called the North Atlantic Festival, this nearly three-week-long festival highlights the performing and visual arts. Vladimir Ashkenazy, the famous pianist and an Icelandic citizen, founded the festival with Ivar Eskeland, former director of the Nordic House in Reykjavik. While Eskeland was primarily interested in establishing a Nordic arts festival, Ashkenazy wanted it to be international in scope. The two men combined their goals, and the first festival was held in 1970. Since that time the festival has seen performances by violinist Yehudi Menuhin, flutist James Galway, conductor AndrÉ Previn, bassist Boris Christoff, and the London Sinfonietta. Artists and companies from Austria, Denmark, Germany, France, Greenland, Norway, Sweden, and the United States have also performed there. The festival is well attended not only by local people but by tourists as well. CONTACTS: Reykjavik Arts Festival Laekjargata 3b P.O. Box 88 Reykjavik, 121 Iceland 354-561-2444; fax: 354-562-2350 artfest.is/default.asp?lang_id=en SOURCES: GdWrldFest-1985, p. 108 IntlThFolk-1979, p. 201 Want to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit the webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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No references found | Requisitioning nearly every art venue in the capital and across Iceland, the Reykjavik Arts Festival turned the whole island into an art gallery featuring mostly new work by thirty-four artists, including Carsten Holler, Lawrence Weiner, Thomas Hirschhorn, and Olafur Eliasson. The Reykjavik Arts Festival, traditionally an exponent of the performing arts, is this year devoting itself to the visual arts with a series of specifically commissioned installations and gallery shows based on the life and art of Dieter Roth. April 27 /PRNewswire/ -- Icelandair Holidays has just put together two special Reykjavik Arts Festival packages, beginning at $569, featuring performances by the world-renowned Icelandic Symphony Orchestra and some of Iceland's greatest operatic artists, including tenor Kristjan Johannsson. |
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