{"id":19185,"date":"2026-05-07T10:17:03","date_gmt":"2026-05-07T10:17:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/museum90.com\/event\/hymn-of-the-balkans-the-cultural-and-political-mission-of-elodie-and-cedomilj-mijatovic\/"},"modified":"2026-05-10T08:35:47","modified_gmt":"2026-05-10T08:35:47","slug":"hymn-of-the-balkans-the-cultural-and-political-mission-of-elodie-and-cedomilj-mijatovic","status":"publish","type":"tribe_events","link":"https:\/\/museum90.com\/en\/event\/hymn-of-the-balkans-the-cultural-and-political-mission-of-elodie-and-cedomilj-mijatovic\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cHymn of the Balkans\u201d \u2014 The Cultural and Political Mission of Elodie and \u010cedomilj Mijatovi\u0107"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"95\" data-end=\"134\">May 19, 2026 at 7 PM <\/p>\n<p>The Museum of the Nineties and the music journal New Sound invite you to a lecture by Prof. Dr. Marijana Kokanovi\u0107 Markovi\u0107 (Academy of Arts, University of Novi Sad) dedicated to the forgotten composition Union is Strength (\u201cHymn of the Balkans\u201d), composed in 1899 by Hungarian composer K\u00e1lm\u00e1n Roth-R\u00f3nay to lyrics written by Elodie Mijatovi\u0107, wife of Serbian diplomat \u010cedomilj Mijatovi\u0107. <\/p>\n<p>Created on the occasion of the First Hague Peace Conference in 1899, the composition symbolized the idea of Balkan unity, as well as the cultural and political ties between Serbia and Great Britain, actively promoted by the Mijatovi\u0107 couple. <\/p>\n<p>The lecture will explore the origins of this nearly forgotten work, while also shedding light on the broader diplomatic, cultural, and political activities of Elodie and \u010cedomilj Mijatovi\u0107 and their role in the international affirmation of Serbia at the end of the 19th century. <\/p>\n<p>As part of the event, the performance of the Balkan National Anthem will be held in the house of the Mijatovi\u0107 couple, on the occasion of the 150th anniversary of the building of the house in Kneza Milo\u0161a Street.<\/p>\n<p>The composition will be performed by:<\/p>\n<ul data-start=\"1160\" data-end=\"1250\">\n<li data-section-id=\"y65lcp\" data-start=\"1160\" data-end=\"1198\">Radoslava Vorgi\u0107 \u017dur\u017eovan (soprano)<\/li>\n<li data-section-id=\"jo89ly\" data-start=\"1199\" data-end=\"1225\">Darija \u010canji (violin)<\/li>\n<li data-section-id=\"9oqdxh\" data-start=\"1226\" data-end=\"1250\">Nevena Sovti\u0107 (piano)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>An introductory talk on the history of the house will be given by Petar Markovi\u0107, its current owner.<\/p>\n<p>The number of places is limited.<\/p>\n<p>Tickets at a price of RSD 300 are available at the Museum of the Nineties (Kneza Milo\u0161a 3, Belgrade) every day from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. By purchasing each ticket, you help the development of the program in the Museum of the Nineties.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>May 19, 2026 at 7 PM The Museum of the Nineties and the music journal New Sound invite you to a lecture by Prof. Dr. Marijana Kokanovi\u0107 Markovi\u0107 (Academy of Arts, University of Novi Sad) dedicated to the forgotten composition Union is Strength (\u201cHymn of the Balkans\u201d), composed in 1899 by Hungarian composer K\u00e1lm\u00e1n Roth-R\u00f3nay to lyrics written by Elodie&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":19182,"template":"","meta":{"_tribe_events_status":"","_tribe_events_status_reason":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"tags":[],"tribe_events_cat":[180],"class_list":["post-19185","tribe_events","type-tribe_events","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tribe_events_cat-events","cat_events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/museum90.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/19185","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/museum90.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/museum90.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/tribe_events"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/museum90.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/museum90.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/19185\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19190,"href":"https:\/\/museum90.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/19185\/revisions\/19190"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/museum90.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19182"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/museum90.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/museum90.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19185"},{"taxonomy":"tribe_events_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/museum90.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events_cat?post=19185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}