Tale Ognenovski, Clarinetist and Composer is author of the book “Macedonian folk dances” (“Makedonski ora”) published by the Cultural Educational Association, Skopje, Republic of Macedonia , in 1989. Tale Ognenovski is author of the book “Macedonian folk dances” (“Makedonski ora”) published by the Cultural Educational Association, Skopje, in 1989. The person responsible for its publication was Mirko Stefanovski, the secretary of the Cultural Educational Association from Skopje. The editor was Jelica Todorchevska, and it was reviewed by Dr. Trpko Bicevski, Dimche Nikolevski and Dushko Dimitrovski. Financial support for its publication was provided by the Republic’s Cultural Society, the Republic’s Scientific Society, the Autonomous Interest Society of Skopje and ‘Makedonija Tabak’. In the introduction to this book Kiril Todevski, ethnomusicologist and editor of the Folk Music Department in Radio Skopje wrote, “Besides his affirming Macedonian folk dances with magnetic tapes and gramophone records, Tale Ognenovski has written this book of Macedonian folk dances, the first such book in Macedonia. He has for a long time been associated with the traditional expression of the Folk style and an endless desire to develop the smallest element of folk music into a complex instrumental content... Tale Ognenovski has performed as much music on the Radio as he has in concert halls in our country, and in many European and non-European countries. He began to play from the earliest age with the reed pipe (‘kavalche’) in his village of Brusnik near Bitola, and he received recognition from the music profession at the First Republic Festival for Macedonian folk dances and songs in Skopje, 1948, where he won First Award for the clarinet as the best clarinetist. It was at this time, following the Festival and his first great award, that Ognenovski decided on a personal objective of developing a creative traditional style in the area of instrumental music. Year by year he developed into a real virtuoso and artist. He created his own style of interpreting folk dances (‘ora’). His particular characteristic involved his own creative improvisations called ‘maninja’. At the same time as he was performing music like this, he started composing his own folk dances. As a composer, he kept the traditional folk expression. Many years of performing with the orchestras of Macedonian Radio Television, with Ensemble ‘Tanec’ and with other folk ensembles helped him create ‘Ognenovski’s style’ when producing his own Macedonian folk dances. These are easily recognizable by their exuberant melody and rich rhythms in correlation with the traditional style. In this area, he is equally well recognized as a performer of ‘chalgiski ora’, folk dances where the melody is always the first objective. He is a composer of folk dances in the ‘new town’ tradition, which he interprets with the Folk Music Orchestra and where the melody is created in the context of a logical harmony. This book containing Macedonian folk dances as well as gramophone records represents an important piece of literature for current and future-generation instrumentalists. This book will remind us of one uniquely talented artist, Tale Ognenovski. In his review of the book, Dr. Trpko Bicevski, ethnomusicologist and senior research fellow at the ‘Marko Cepenkov’ Institute for Folklore, Skopje, wrote amongst other things, “...We have pleasure in recommending for publication this book ‘Macedonian folk dances’ (‘Makedonski ora’), a manuscript by this former ambassador of ours in this kind of Macedonian Music Culture all over the world.”
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