PM attends event dedicated to Moldovan departed poet

Chisinau, 12 November /MOLDPRES/ - Prime Minister Iurie Leanca attended a show in the memory of dear departed Moldovan poet Dumitru Matcovschi – 75th anniversary, late in the evening. The event took place at the Nicolae Sulac National Palace. Thousands of people came to pay a homage to the poet, the government's communication and media relations department has reported. 

The show's goal, titled „He knew the high fly, longing and cry”, directed by Alexandru Vasilache, scenography by Iurie Matei, was to recall the memory and masterpieces of the writer. Sequences of shows, poem recitals and music on the verses of the poet were also shown during the event.

„He wrote as sensitive, deep and significantly, regardless if he composed a play in which he reminded us our history or confronted us with the times troubles, journalism in which he attacked the stringent problems of the day or love poem… A huge love for people and his country. Namely this masterpiece, which was wrote with a lot of pain and passion, we committed to preserve and promote when we declared the year 2014 as the Year of Dumitru Matcovschi. I want to believe that we managed to keep our engagement,” Leanca said.

Leanca also talked about the fact that by the example of his life, Dumitru Matcovschi continued to give a respectable lesson to the today generation, as well as to the next ones: „He is successful as … he has never been just a poet. He was among the fewer Moldovan artists with civic consciousness. Just one thing remains for us to do - to read him and not to betray his credo! Let's watch our backs in these tumultuous, decisive and worrying times and not forget „who I am, who you are, who he is”. The memory is our single chance to leave behind the past and to choose correctly our future - a future of liberty and dignity”. 

The writer, poet and dramatist Dumitru Matcovschi, who died in 2013, was a well-known personality of the cultural and artistic life of Moldova. Dumitru Matcovschi is the author of 50 volumes of poetry,  fiction and plays, and represents a symbol of the Moldovan National Rebirth Movement. He was awarded high distinctions, such as the Knight of the Cultural Merit Order, Knight of the Order of the Star of Romania in rank of Commander, Knight of the Order of the Republic. He was a full member of the Academy of Sciences of Moldova. 

In September 2003, the lyceum from the native village of the poet was named after him. In 2011, at the 72nd anniversary, the Dumitru Matcovschi House-Museum was inaugurated. Also in 2011, the Dumitru Matcovschi International Festival of Poetry and Song, with participants from Moldova, Romania and Ukraine, was launched. 

At the same time, the year 2014 was declared the „Year Dumitru Matcovschi". Besides, in 2014, the government decided to build up a monument of the writer in Vadul-Rascov, the native village of the poet, where he was buried.