Bužarovski, Dimitrije

Orient and Occident Encounters in Dimitrije Buzarovski’s Oratorio “Radomir’s Psalms”

“…After the World War Two, the new socialist regime in Yugoslavia, i.e., Macedonia, created a very unfriendly environment for religious music. There were no composers who wrote liturgies, despite the fact that the first Macedonian contemporary composer Atanas Badev wrote The Liturgy of St. John Chrysostom (first published in Leipzig in 1898) (Ortakov 1982, 62, Ortakov 1986 and the first generation of Macedonian composers (Gajdov, Firfov, Prokopiev, Skalovski) wrote church music and conducted church chorus until 1943 (Jordanoska and Buzarovski, 2012). The renewed interest began in 1963 when Tomislav Zografski (1934Zografski ( -2000 used Orthodox chant in a Western tradition for his Zapisi op.…”