by Olga Brajnović | Feb 13, 2022 | good luck, our life
Maybe some of my followers are wondering what happened to me. I grew silent since January. No posts no photos. Nothing. The culprit: a brand new violin I received as a Christmas gift and arrived last January 6th. I have never played violin in my life. I know my way...
by Olga Brajnović | Dec 24, 2021 | Memories, our life
Here I leave you a Musical Christmas Card. It’s a traditional Croatian carol we used to sing every Christmas Eve after midnight Mass. It is a lullaby to the child Jesus. And the words say something like this: Oh, my dear Child, I’m so happy! You are my...
by Olga Brajnović | Dec 7, 2021 | fiction
I have been practicing my part to the exhaustion, but I’m a bag of nerves. The theatre is full tonight. The dressing rehearsal didn’t go so well as I expected. Everything has to be perfect. I sang with precision and put all my heart on it, because is a...
by Olga Brajnović | Jan 4, 2021 | challenges, fiction, our life
Brrr! How cold am I! I spent all day in the street under the snow playing my sax. A nice man gave me a cup of hot coffee at lunchtime, but that was all. People were in a hurry under the gelid weather. The strong wind had turned the snowflakes into little arrows of...
by Olga Brajnović | Oct 18, 2020 | challenges, Journalism, Memories
My first assignment in my newspaper was education and culture. I love music, which allowed me to interview musicians who visited our city for concerts. Once the Moscow virtuosi, conducted by Vladimir Spivakov, had to perform in our old theatre. I had to interview him,...
