Lithuanian composers in the post-Soviet period
EN[...] The period immediately after 1990 was largely compensatory, trying to make up for all the years of limited access and creative freedom. As a counter to everyday life, where there were many immediate challenges and attempts to master new procedures of day-to-day activity, artists moved more incrementally. Creative opportunities opened little by little, and composers tried to understand and incorporate principles of creativity and expression that existed in the free world. Musical aesthetics remained somewhat intact across the threshold of 1990, but the methods of work and professionalism shifted dramatically. The reorganisation of cultural institutions and their economic incapacity forced artists to create individual survival strategies rather than depend on larger systems of support. Many were not prepared to take on the role, and the situation favoured those who tended to embrace the new initiatives rather than those who held firmly to the Soviet regime. [...]. [Extract, p. 176]
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