Нови перспективи в българския мюзикъл от 80-те години
New prospects for Bulgarian musical of the 1980’s

Summary/Abstract: The title of the very popular in the 1980’s ballad, Wind of Change of the German rock band the Scorpions, proved to be a working metaphor for the increasing over that decade opportunistic instability in this country in defiance of the hardened line of management of the national culture and the censorship network, which saw it harder and harder to contain free artistic expression. It was in that real historical context, where from the viewpoint of contemporary critical reflection, the emerging new prospects for Bulgarian musical in terms of ideas, subjects and styles find their logical explanation. In the case of composer Lubomir Denev these were definitely leaving the regional framework of the 1960’s and the 1970’s, i.e. the socialist mainstream, to declare their affiliation with the world musical standards. At the same time each of his works of the outstanding genre series (Tomorrow at Ten based on Lubomir Denev’s idea, lyrics by Zhivko Kolev; Alice Through the Looking Glass based on the books by Lewis Carroll; Love’s Labour’s (Not)Lost based on Shakespeare’s comedy and the Law of the Jungle after Kipling) articulates relevant dramatic/textual and music-codes messages aiming at a precise social target.

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