Tudor Jarda. Portrait, Rost and Rostire
Tudor Jarda. Portrait, Rost and Rostire

Summary/Abstract: Those who really knew him describe him as “... a refined intellectual, though one who did not want this to be seen, and who, in an academic context, was more akin to Ion Creangă than to Titu Maiorescu” (C.Ț.).In his religious works (Cerul și pământul [Heaven and Earth] - a collection of choral works, Liturghia valahă [Wallachian Liturgy], Din Scripturi [From Scriptures]), the Maestro, having already reached the age of wisdom, offered us a masterpiece that brims with that unique colour of Romanian piety. His flight from sensationalism and triumphalism, the humility of his language and his mysterious connection with the ancestors are melt into an expression in which the important thing is not the event, but the mood. This language captures the entire embodiment of the above-mentioned Romanian expression “se cade sau nu se cade” [‘it is appropriate’ or ‘it is inappropriate’], with its entire semantic palette and which, I believe, marked his entire work.

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