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97-506: Korni Grupa ( Serbian Cyrillic : Корни Група , trans. Korni Group ) was a Yugoslav rock band formed in Belgrade in 1968. Launched and led by, as well as named after, the keyboardist Kornelije Kovač , the band was one of the first Yugoslav rock acts to achieve major mainstream popularity in the country, and often considered the first Yugoslav supergroup . Over the period since their dissolution, Korni Grupa went on to be considered among

194-808: A 2014 survey, 47% of the Serbian population write in the Latin alphabet whereas 36% write in Cyrillic. The following table provides the upper and lower case forms of the Serbian Cyrillic alphabet, along with the equivalent forms in the Serbian Latin alphabet and the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) value for each letter. The letters do not have names, and consonants are normally pronounced as such when spelling

291-589: A Dog") as the B-side, recorded with Prelević on vocals, the latter of which Prelević rerecorded on his solo album Ja, Prele ( I, Prele ), released in 1996. Having left Korni Grupa, Prelević appeared in the cult 1969 Yugoslav adaptation of the Hair musical in Atelje 212 theatre, recorded a studio album with progressive rock band Opus , a single with keyboardist Oliver Mandić , as well as several solo albums and devoted to

388-697: A One Last Fight to See if I'm Old ). The Serbian actor Milorad Mandić covered the song "Trla baba lan" on his 1991 children's music album of the same name. The Serbian rock band Električni Orgazam recorded a cover version of "Magična ruka", released on their 1996 unplugged album Živo i akustično ( Live and Acoustic ). The soundtrack for the Radio Television of Serbia television show Zlatna viljuška ( The Golden Fork ) featured cover versions of Korni Grupa songs "Moja generacija" by Filip Žmaher, "Sonata" by Zoran Šandorov, "Oj, dodole" by Del Arno Band and "Jagode i maline" by Van Gogh , all featured on

485-539: A challenge in Unicode modeling, as the glyphs differ only in italic versions, and historically non-italic letters have been used in the same code positions. Serbian professional typography uses fonts specially crafted for the language to overcome the problem, but texts printed from common computers contain East Slavic rather than Serbian italic glyphs. Cyrillic fonts from Adobe, Microsoft (Windows Vista and later) and

582-434: A cover of " If You Go Away " in which they used the sounds of the sea played on a tape recorder placed inside the piano. The eye-catching performance was received favourably, providing the band with live performance opportunities at numerous venues around town. One such performance was at Belgrade's Dom Omladine (Youth Center), where they put on a conceptual multimedia performance, with painter Raša Trkulja painting live during

679-584: A double track career – alternating between being a festival band performing commercial pop rock songs on one hand and a progressive rock band following the current global rock musical trends on the other. With the folk -influenced song "Pastir i cvet" ("A Shepperd and a Flower"), the band appeared at the Singing Europe festival in Scheveningen , Netherlands winning the Golden Pier award for

776-457: A few other font houses include the Serbian variations (both regular and italic). If the underlying font and Web technology provides support, the proper glyphs can be obtained by marking the text with appropriate language codes. Thus, in non-italic mode: whereas: Since Unicode unifies different glyphs in same characters, font support must be present to display the correct variant. The standard Serbian keyboard layout for personal computers

873-598: A full-length album ( Grupa 220 , Žeteoci and Time being the other three), as the scene revolved mostly around 7-inch singles. The album featured complex songs "Put na Istok" ("A Trip to the East"), "Bezglave Ja Ha horde" ("The Headless Ya Ha Hordes"), "Moj bol" ("My Pain"), "Glas sa obale boja" ("A Voice from the Coast of Colors"). Following the album release, the band appeared at the Zagreb Music Festival and won

970-571: A handful of songs, while the rest of the set featured guest vocalists: Dejan Cukić , Goran Šepa , Zoran Šandrov, and Dušan Svilar. During the same year, the German record label Hollow Cloud Music released the vinyl record featuring the 1970 recording of "Jedna žena", featuring Topić on vocals, and the 1972 recording of "Igra na Šar-planini" ("Dance on the Šar Mountains "), featuring Pejaković on vocals and recorded with Mića Marković and Peter Ugrin. In 2020, PGP-RTS and Croatia Records jointly released

1067-409: A lineup that was to feature Kornelije Kovač on keyboards, Josip Boček on guitar, and Dado Topić on vocals, along with three younger musicians, Peđa Milanović (bass guitar), Aleksandar Miletić (keyboards), and Ratko Ljubičić (drums). It was further announced that Bojan Hreljac would also perform, but that his role would be reduced to a guest appearance on a single song due to his health condition. However,

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1164-412: A literary and journalism career. The new Korni Grupa singer became Dalibor Brun from Rijeka , a former member of the band Uragani (recording the single "Deborah" with them), with whom Korni Grupa recorded their first hits "Magična ruka" ("The Magic Hand"), "Sonata" and "Dzum-ram". With Brun, himself fostering a typically festival singer image, but a rock vocal style, the band succeeded in maintaining

1261-661: A massive and strong building, fully in the manner of the Social realism, which meant no ornaments on the façade. However, architect Petričić decided to design the new building as an extension of the building of the Retirement Fund of the National Bank of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia. This building was designed by Grigorije Samojlov and was finished a couple of months prior to the outbreak of the war in 1941. The building of

1358-405: A part of the concert recordings was released on the first double album in the history of Yugoslav rock music, the compilation Mrtvo more ( The Dead Sea ). One record featured their singles, representing commercial and more pop-oriented side of Korni Grupa, while the other featured live recordings of "Put za Istok", "Čovek sa belom zastavom" ("The Man with a White Flag") and "Blues", representing

1455-416: A television special directed by Jovan Ristić, featuring songs from the band's commercial repertoire. In early 1972, a former Lavine ( Avalanches ), Zlatni Akordi and Had ( Hades ) member Zlatko Pejaković became the band's new singer, and with Pejaković, Korni Grupa recorded their first full-length album, Korni Grupa . At the time of the album release, Korni Grupa was one of four Yugoslav rock bands with

1552-520: Is a Ship"). With the performance of "Jedna žena" at the 1970 Zagreb Music Festival Korni Grupa won both the audience and jury Award for the Best Song. The band continued recording commercial material with the recording of the song "Bube" ("Beetles"), the theme song for the Miša Radivojević film This Crazy World of Ours (the literal translation of the original title Bube u glavi being Beetles in

1649-482: Is as follows: Dom Sindikata Dom Sindikata (lit. Trade Union Hall ), known as mts Hall for sponsorship reasons, is a non-residential, multi-purpose building in downtown Belgrade , the capital of Serbia . Finished in 1957, by the 1970s it became the most popular entertainment venue in the city, nicknamed the Belgrade Olympia and later was adapted into the city's first multiplex . The building

1746-504: Is entered from the inside passage, will be transformed into the jazz club Lisabon . The venue was re-opened on 27 April 2018 with the gala opening and was officially renamed to "Kombank Hall" ( Kombank arena ). The venue has been described as an "important institution, one of the phenomenon of the second half of the 20th century". A documentary film on Dom Sindikata, Witness of the time ( Svedok jednog vremena ), premiered in March 2019, at

1843-636: Is necessary (or followed by a short schwa , e.g. /fə/).: Summary tables According to tradition, Glagolitic was invented by the Byzantine Christian missionaries and brothers Saints Cyril and Methodius in the 860s, amid the Christianization of the Slavs . Glagolitic alphabet appears to be older, predating the introduction of Christianity, only formalized by Cyril and expanded to cover non-Greek sounds. The Glagolitic alphabet

1940-477: Is the only one in official use. The ligatures : were developed specially for the Serbian alphabet. Serbian Cyrillic does not use several letters encountered in other Slavic Cyrillic alphabets. It does not use hard sign ( ъ ) and soft sign ( ь ), particularly due to a lack of distinction between iotated consonants and non-iotated consonants, but the aforementioned soft-sign ligatures instead. It does not have Russian/Belarusian Э , Ukrainian/Belarusian І ,

2037-483: The Belgrade Faculty of Law , becoming a lawyer. Dušan "Prele" Prelević , well-known around Belgrade at the time for his distinctive rhythm and blues and soul vocal style and excessive lifestyle, became the new Korni Grupa vocalist. At the time, Kovač was influenced by the emerging progressive rock musical style, but due to the hostility of a part of the audience and the media towards the music, he wrote

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2134-689: The House of the National Assembly of Serbia . Western façade is located along the Dečanska street, and north of the building is an entrance into the Terazije Tunnel . It was projected by Branko Petričić and the construction began in 1947. Due to the Tito–Stalin split in 1948 and the ensuing Informbiro period , the works were soon halted. The construction was resumed in 1951. Since 1953,

2231-566: The Nazi puppet Independent State of Croatia banned the use of Cyrillic, having regulated it on 25 April 1941, and in June 1941 began eliminating " Eastern " (Serbian) words from Croatian, and shut down Serbian schools. The Serbian Cyrillic alphabet was used as a basis for the Macedonian alphabet with the work of Krste Misirkov and Venko Markovski . The Serbian Cyrillic script was one of

2328-515: The Radio Belgrade show Studio VI vam pruža šansu ( Studio VI Offers You a Chance ), however, Kojadinović refused to sing, so for the band's appearance in the show Kovač provided the lead vocals. The reason for her refusal was the selection of the songs for the performance, including the song "Marijan", the first song the Kovač had written with the band, which Kojadinović, heavily influenced by

2425-477: The Sava Center was finished), "Kids fest", and "Belgrade Spring". A massive reconstruction ensued in 1978 when the interior of the entry hall was remodeled. In time it became the multiplex movie theater, with additional halls 2 (305 seats), 3 (105) and 4 (101), with the total area of 6,250 m (67,300 sq ft). A large pipe organ was installed in 1957 and was operational until 1998. In 2017 it

2522-494: The Soviet construction workers were employed on the site. Major works on the building were completed by 1955 while the building was fully finished by the "Rad" construction company by 1957. The opening was held on 13 June 1957. That year the first seminar was held and the first movie show was Only people by Branko Bauer . On 18 November 1957 the first musical show was held, too. The Great Hall, with 1,600 seats, became one of

2619-532: The Yugoslav People's Army Guard military band performing marches and instrumental covers of Korni Grupa songs, and prior to the band's performance, on stage appeared judo fighters , ladies walking dogs and gallows with a hanged friar . During the concert the band performed only their progressive rock repertoire. Soon after, Kacl left the band and decided to retire from music. He was replaced by Josip Boček, Topić's former bandmate from Dinamiti who at

2716-495: The djerv (Ꙉꙉ) for the Serbian reflexes of Pre-Slavic *tj and *dj (* t͡ɕ , * d͡ʑ , * d͡ʒ , and * tɕ ), later the letter evolved to dje (Ђђ) and tshe (Ћћ) letters . Vuk Stefanović Karadžić fled Serbia during the Serbian Revolution in 1813, to Vienna. There he met Jernej Kopitar , a linguist with interest in slavistics. Kopitar and Sava Mrkalj helped Vuk to reform Serbian and its orthography. He finalized

2813-733: The 12th place, owing to which, along with the little success of the second album, the band had decided to split. They held two farewell concerts at the Novi Sad Studio M and disbanded on December 1, 1974. A part of the recordings from the concerts was released on the posthumous compilation album Mrtvo more , the first double album in the history of Yugoslav rock music. After the disbandment, Korni Grupa members pursued careers as solo acts, studio musicians and producers, reuniting in 1987 with Topić on vocals for two performances, in Zagreb and Belgrade. In 2019, Kovač, Boček and Topić reunited to hold

2910-458: The 1960s underground music , especially Julie Driscoll (whose version of " Season of the Witch " the band used to perform at the time), considered overly commercial. Since the rest of the band took Kovač's side, Kojadinović was excluded from the band, after which she started a short-lasting solo career, releasing one EP and two 7-inch singles before retiring from music and, after graduating from

3007-557: The 3 and 13 October 1914 banned the use of Serbian Cyrillic in the Kingdom of Croatia-Slavonia , limiting it for use in religious instruction. A decree was passed on January 3, 1915, that banned Serbian Cyrillic completely from public use. An imperial order on October 25, 1915, banned the use of Serbian Cyrillic in the Condominium of Bosnia and Herzegovina , except "within the scope of Serbian Orthodox Church authorities". In 1941,

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3104-650: The 66th Belgrade Documentary and Short Film Festival. The "Gallery Kombank Dvorana", a permanent gallery, was opened on 5 March 2021. Inaugural exhibition presented works of painter Miloš Šobajić . The building was originally built for the Association of the Trade Unions (SSSS), hence the name. The SSSS founded the Dvorana Doma Sindikata as a separate company, which officially managed the hall. However, that company went bankrupt in 2016 and

3201-564: The Fund was ornamented with grayish- ochre stone slabs, fully designed in the Modernist style. Petričić used the same aesthetics and materials, embedding Dom Sindikata as a filling and a natural extension of the Samojlov's project. Though two separate buildings, in two slightly different styles and from different epochs, from a distance two buildings create an illusion of being just two wings of

3298-542: The Head ), released on single with "Neko spava pored mene" ("Somebody is Sleeping Beside Me") as the B-side, arguably the first Yugoslav rock songs dealing with one-night stands . The band also released the highly successful "Trla baba lan" ("Granny Scutched the Flax"), "Slika" ("Image"), co-written with the at the time little known Ljuba Ninković (later of S Vremena Na Vreme fame), continuing their double musical career. During

3395-511: The Italian progressive acts of the time as Premiata Forneria Marconi , Banco and Area . The album was sold without much commercial promotion in ten thousand copies only, with the license for the album release being sold to Yugoslavia, Japan, Israel, and several South American countries. On the Yugoslav scene the band had an enormous success with the single "Ivo Lola", with the lyrics based on

3492-892: The Kornelije Kovač compilation album Moja generacija . The Bajaga i Instruktori keyboard player Saša Lokner recorded an instrumental version of "Put za istok", the version in itself featuring a sample of the Korni Grupa song "Zemlja", released on his 2004 solo album Evropa Elektro Express ( Europe Electro Express ). The book YU 100: najbolji albumi jugoslovenske rok i pop muzike ( YU 100: The Best albums of Yugoslav pop and rock music ), published in 1988, features two Korni Grupa albums: Korni Grupa , polled No. 4, and 1941. , polled No. 94. The Rock Express Top 100 Yugoslav Rock Songs of All Times list, published in 2000, featured two songs by Korni Grupa: "Put za istok" (polled No.44) and "Jedna žena" (polled No.67). In 2011,

3589-422: The Korni Grupa songs "I ne tako obićan život" ("Not an Ordinary Life at All") and "Jedna žena" recorded at Novi Sad farewell concerts, which were previously unreleased. During the same year, Kovač initiated the formation of a supergroup K2 (not to be confused with the 1990s duo consisting of Kovač's daughters ) which ought to have featured Josip Boček, Dado Topić, Sloba Marković, Čarli Novak and Ratko Divljak, but it

3686-513: The Latin alphabet, in use in western South Slavic areas, using the same principles. As a result of this joint effort, Serbian Cyrillic and Gaj's Latin alphabets have a complete one-to-one congruence, with the Latin digraphs Lj, Nj, and Dž counting as single letters. The updated Serbian Cyrillic alphabet was officially adopted in the Principality of Serbia in 1868, and was in exclusive use in

3783-645: The Latin script is almost always used in the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina , whereas Cyrillic is in everyday use in Republika Srpska . The Serbian language in Croatia is officially recognized as a minority language; however, the use of Cyrillic in bilingual signs has sparked protests and vandalism . Serbian Cyrillic is an important symbol of Serbian identity. In Serbia, official documents are printed in Cyrillic only even though, according to

3880-561: The Legende YU Rocka ( Legends of YU Rock ) concert organized by Radio 101 at Zagreb 's Dom Sportova . In June of the same year, the same bands performed at Belgrade's Sava Centar . The version of "Jedna žena" recorded at the Zagreb concert appeared on the various artists double live album Legende YU Rocka , released by Jugoton during the same year. In 1994, the previously unreleased song "Prvo svetlo u kući broj 4" appeared on

3977-576: The alphabet in 1818 with the Serbian Dictionary . Karadžić reformed standard Serbian and standardised the Serbian Cyrillic alphabet by following strict phonemic principles on the Johann Christoph Adelung ' model and Jan Hus ' Czech alphabet . Karadžić's reforms of standard Serbian modernised it and distanced it from Serbian and Russian Church Slavonic , instead bringing it closer to common folk speech, specifically, to

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4074-538: The band conventionally. Having left Korni Grupa, Brun returned to Rijeka and joined the band Bohemi ( The Bohemians ), eventually starting a successful career as a pop singer. After Brun's departure, owing to the mutual friendship with dancer Lokica Stefanović, the new Korni Grupa vocalist became Dado Topić , a former member of the Osijek band Dinamiti . With Topić the band appeared at the Opatija festival, performing

4171-686: The band performed "Pastir i cvet" and their versions of " March on the Drina " and the old patriotic song "Igrale se delije" ("The Heroes Danced"). Soon after, the band performed on the fashion show presenting "Prokleta Jerina" in Warsaw . At one of the Paris shows, the band had met the producer Alan Milo from the Barclay record label, who got interested in signing the band. The group made some demo recordings in Paris, however, guided by his own ambitions, Topić left

4268-500: The band settled on Dado Topić who brought along his former bandmate Josip Boček as the replacement for Kacl. The lineup with Topić on vocals participated at music festivals, scored a popular film, This Crazy World of Ours , and created a rock epic as a soundtrack for an episode of the Jedan čovek jedna pesma television program that would be released years later on the posthumous studio album 1941. Upon Topić's departure, his substitute

4365-558: The band to form Time , a progressive rock and jazz fusion group that would also go on to nationwide popularity, before becoming a successful solo act. Topić was replaced by the former Ambasadori vocalist Zdravko Čolić in September 1971. A young singer with more of a festival schlager sensibility, twenty-year-old Čolić right away presented an uneasy fit with the band's well-established propensity for musical experimentation with even his vocal style and stage movements not fitting into

4462-565: The band would record music for two more 7-inch singles released by Katarina, the first one with the songs "Treperi jedno veče" ("An Evening Is Quivering") and "Htela bih da znam" ("I Would Like to Know"), released in 1972, and the second one with "Alba" and "Plovi lađa Dunavom" ("The Ship Is Sailing on the Danube "), released in 1973. In 1971, as a part of celebration of the Yugoslav Revolution 30th anniversary, Korni Grupa recorded

4559-556: The band's music videos, TV appearances, concert recordings, as well as recordings from the band's rehearsals in Belgrade Youth Center and Belgrade club Cepelin. The band's second vocalist, Dušan Prelević, died in Belgrade after long illness on 28 July 2007. Furduj died in Belgrade on 1 June 2015. In 2018, it was announced that Korni Grupa would reunite for a farewell concert to be held in Belgrade's Sava Centar , with

4656-413: The basement will be surrounded by the glass walls and be accessible to the students of technical sciences. On the first floor one room at the first floors will be transformed into the city gallery and another into the children educational center. A bar will be opened in the lobby, with patio stretching outside onto the square. Inside the lobby, a panoramic elevator will be constructed. Club Promocija , which

4753-832: The box set Original Album Collection , featuring Korni Grupa , Not an Ordinary Life and Mrtvo more , as well as Kovač's first three solo albums. Kovač died in Belgrade on 13 September 2022 of the complications caused by COVID-19 . The musicians which cited Korni Grupa as an influence include Smak guitarist Radomir Mihajlović "Točak" , guitarist and former Leb i Sol member Vlatko Stefanovski , guitarist and singer and former Grupa 220 , Parni Valjak , Aerodrom and Azra member Jurica Pađen , singer-songwriter Đorđe Balašević , Riblja Čorba guitarist and Bajaga i Instruktori vocalist and guitarist Momčilo Bajagić "Bajaga" , Idoli member and singer-songwriter Vlada Divljan , Kerber vocalist Goran Šepa , and others. A number of acts have covered Korni Grupa songs. The song "Trla baba lan"

4850-814: The central entertainment multi-purpose venues in Belgrade (concerts, shows, cinema). Conductor Mladen Jagušt  [ sr ] stated that the hall is one of the five in Europe with the best acoustics. In the 1970s and 1980s it became a prestigious scene, Belgrade's version of Paris Olympia. Artists who performed on the stage include Olivera Katarina , Đorđe Marjanović , Arsen Dedić , Édith Piaf , Miles Davis , Ella Fitzgerald , Louis Armstrong , B.B. King , Duke Ellington , Oscar Peterson , Charles Aznavour , Robert De Niro , Elizabeth Taylor , Richard Burton , but also Arthur Rubinstein , New York Philharmonic and Berlin Philharmonic . Two folk music superstars of

4947-401: The compilation album Plima: Progresivna muzika ( Tide: Progressive Music ), released as a part of Komuna YU retROCKspektiva ( YU RetROCKspective ) album series. In 1996, the compilation album Prvo svetlo neobičnog života ( The First Light of an Unordinary Life ) was released, featuring a selection of tracks from Korni Grupa's progressive repertoire. During the same year, Kovač released

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5044-405: The compilation album Moja generacija ( My Generation ), consisting of recordings of his songs used in the television show Zvučna viljuška ( Tuning Fork ), including cover versions of the Korni Grupa songs "Moja generacija" by Filip Žmaher, "Sonata" by Zoran Šandorov, "Oj, dodole" ("Hey, Dodola ") by Del Arno Band and "Jagode i maline" ("Strawberries and Raspberries") by Van Gogh . In 2005,

5141-555: The country up to the interwar period . Both alphabets were official in the Kingdom of Yugoslavia and later in the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia . Due to the shared cultural area, Gaj's Latin alphabet saw a gradual adoption in the Socialist Republic of Serbia since, and both scripts are used to write modern standard Serbian. In Serbia , Cyrillic is seen as being more traditional, and has

5238-515: The day, Lepa Brena and Miroslav Ilić , held dozens of consecutive concerts. The 1977–1978 series of matches between Boris Spassky and Viktor Korchnoi , part of the 1976-1978 world championship cycle, was held in the Dom Sindikata. The spectators were divided between two grandmasters and even fist fights occurred in front of the building. Film and music festivals which originated in the venue include FEST (from 1971 to 1977/1979 when

5335-615: The dialect of Eastern Herzegovina which he spoke. Karadžić was, together with Đuro Daničić , the main Serbian signatory to the Vienna Literary Agreement of 1850 which, encouraged by Austrian authorities, laid the foundation for Serbian, various forms of which are used by Serbs in Serbia , Montenegro , Bosnia and Herzegovina and Croatia today. Karadžić also translated the New Testament into Serbian, which

5432-580: The farewell Korni Grupa concert in Belgrade; Hreljac's participation in the reunion was also announced, however, he died less than two months before the concert. Having left the Sarajevo -based Indexi in 1968, established keyboardist Kornelije "Bata" Kovač , a graduate of the Sarajevo Music Academy , moved to Yugoslav capital Belgrade . Soon after arrival, he met the bassist Bojan Hreljac, former member of recently-disbanded Elipse , and

5529-447: The first Yugoslav television show in color, Put za istok , edited by Jovan Ristić and directed by Dejan Karaklajić. During the late 1973, Korni Grupa recorded a symphonic rock English language album Not an Ordinary Life , which they released under the name The Kornelyans through the Italian record label Ricordi . The album was produced by Carlo Alberto Rossi , a prominent Italian record producer and composer, who had been working with

5626-489: The last letter of Yugoslav World War II hero Ivo Lola Ribar to his fiancé Sloboda Trajković. The single's B-side featured the song "Znam za kim zvono zvoni" ("I Know for Whom the Bell Tolls"), featuring as guest the singer Ditka Haberl. The band also released their old song "Etida" on single, however the initial number of records featured the cover with the title mistakenly printed as "Edita". The single's B-side featured

5723-616: The members being well-known musicians owing to their previous work. In fact, many observers considered the band to be the first supergroup in Yugoslavia . Their debut live appearance took place at Belgrade's Dom Sindikata (Trade Union Hall), performing alongside two go-go dancers during the Athlete of the Year award ceremony. The band performed several original songs written during rehearsals/ jam sessions at Hreljac's garage as well as

5820-495: The most original act, despite being in competition with acts such as the Wallace Collection and Olivia Newton-John . The song, released as a single during 1969 by PGP-RTB , with "Ako budeš sama" ("If You Were Alone") as the B-side, featured Balkan folk instruments šargija , tarabuka and frula . This was however, the last recording with Brun as he, becoming less enthusiastic about the band's work, decided to leave

5917-581: The most prominent and influential bands in the history of rock music in Yugoslavia . The band additionally used the Kornelyans name during a short-lived commercial foray outside of Yugoslavia in an attempt at breaking into the international market with an English-language album. Since the very beginning of their run, Korni Grupa's activity took place on two parallel tracks: one focused around commercial pop rock in pursuit of mainstream popularity, and

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6014-410: The new, wide plateau of the square named after Marx and Engels and effectively being transformed into a parking later, several buildings were demolished. The massive building is designed in the manner of Socialist realism, with the influences of late modernism . In terms of architecture, it is the symbol of the construction immediately after the war, and with its position and volume, it permanently set

6111-457: The official status (designated in the constitution as the " official script ", compared to Latin's status of "script in official use" designated by a lower-level act, for national minorities). It is also an official script in Bosnia and Herzegovina and Montenegro , along with Gaj's Latin alphabet . Serbian Cyrillic is in official use in Serbia , Montenegro , and Bosnia and Herzegovina . Although Bosnia "officially accept[s] both alphabets",

6208-439: The other, an artistically influenced progressive rock sound crossed with influences of psychedelic , folk , jazz , and symphonic rock music. The keyboardist Kornelije Kovač formed the group with the bassist Bojan Hreljac, drummer Vladimir Furduj, and guitarist Velibor Kacl. After going through several vocalists—Miroslava Kojadinović, Dušan Prelević and Dalibor Brun —a period during which Korni Grupa released several singles,

6305-406: The outline of the square, which itself is one of the most important public spaces in Belgrade. Apart from architectural values, the building is important from the cultural and historical point of view, as many important political and cultural events happened in Dom Sindikata. For all that, it was declared a cultural monument in April 2013. The original request by the authorities was for a design of

6402-430: The planned reunion ended up being marked by numerous difficulties. The show was originally announced for 30 November 2018, but was postponed for 31 January 2019. In the meantime, on 19 December 2018, Hreljac died in Belgrade. Prior to the concert, the organizers announced that Dado Topić might not appear due to his own health problems and that guest vocalists would fill in for him. Eventually, Topić did appear, but only on

6499-458: The pop-oriented song "Cigu-ligu" ("Tweedle-dum, Tweedle-dee") which Korni Grupa performed at the 1968 Jugovizija festival in Zagreb , the competition for the Yugoslav representative on the Eurovision song contest. Prelević arrived drunk to the performance, leading to an argument with Kovač that ended in the decision that he should leave the band. Nevertheless, in 1969, the band released their debut single "Cigu-ligu", with "Čovek i pas" ("A Man and

6596-408: The previous 18th century Slavonic-Serbian script, following the principle of "write as you speak and read as it is written", removing obsolete letters and letters representing iotated vowels , introducing ⟨J⟩ from the Latin alphabet instead, and adding several consonant letters for sounds specific to Serbian phonology . During the same period, linguists led by Ljudevit Gaj adapted

6693-441: The progressive aspect of the band's musical expression. Čolić thus remained in the band for only six months, recording three songs — "Gospa Mica gazdarica" ("Lady Mica the Landlord"), "Kukavica" ("The Cuckoo ") and "Pogledaj u nebo" ("Look at the Sky") — before leaving to start a solo career that would by late 1970s see him become one of the most popular and commercial acts in SFR Yugoslavia. During Čolić's short stay, Korni Grupa shot

6790-414: The progressive side of their career. The band officially disbanded on December 1, 1974. After Korni Grupa disbanded, Kovač started a successful career as a composer, arranger and producer, Pejaković turned towards pop music, Boček and Hreljac became studio musicians and Furduj started a career in jazz . The various artists live album Randevu s muzikom ( A Rendevouz with Music ), released in 1977, featured

6887-408: The reconstruction. Minister for culture, Vladan Vukosavljević, and representatives of "Megacom", showed that the painting was still in the building, but was removed and protected due to the ongoing works. It was announced that it will be exhibited in the Great Hall again, after the works are finished. The process of declaring the painting a cultural property started on 5 September 2017, but it stopped at

6984-606: The rock epic "1941." on the lyrics of Branko Ćopić with Josipa Lisac as a guest vocalist. The material was recorded as a soundtrack for the Jedan čovek jedna pesma ( One Man – One Song ) television series, for which Momo Kapor did the mise-en-scène , directed by Jovan Ristić. Afterward, the band spent a month in Paris, playing at the fashion show which presented "Prokleta Jerina" (" Damned Jerina ") line of clothing by fashion designer Aleksandar Joksimović, with some of these performance held in Bois de Boulogne . On these performances,

7081-549: The same construction. The Great Hall was embellished with the painting "Industrialization". It was painted by Petar Lubarda in 1959 and has a dimensions of 2.9 m × 6.5 m (9 ft 6 in × 21 ft 4 in). It is probably the largest oil painting by Lubarda, from, as the critics described it, his best period. Public uproar was caused in October 2017 when Blic newspapers reported that painting, which they estimated up to €1 million, went missing during

7178-401: The same year, French singer Dalida released a French language cover of "Trla baba lan" under the title "Ram Dam Dam", her version achieving large success on the charts and leading to about 20 covers by European artists. The band also recorded the music for the 7-inch single featuring the songs "Vatra" ("Fire") and "Ljubav" ("Love") for popular singer Olivera Katarina . In the following years,

7275-459: The second place with the performance of the song "Kosovka devojka" (" Kosovo Maiden "), as well as performing at the 1972 Montreux Jazz Festival ; on the latter performance, held on 22 June 1972, they were joined by Mića Marković (saxophone) and Mladi Levi member Petar Ugrin (violin, trumpet), and the group was announced as the Korni Group and Two Good Ones. In the meantime, the band recorded

7372-768: The semi-vowels Й or Ў , nor the iotated letters Я (Russian/Bulgarian ya ), Є (Ukrainian ye ), Ї ( yi ), Ё (Russian yo ) or Ю ( yu ), which are instead written as two separate letters: Ја, Је, Ји, Јо, Ју . Ј can also be used as a semi-vowel, in place of й . The letter Щ is not used. When necessary, it is transliterated as either ШЧ , ШЋ or ШТ . Serbian italic and cursive forms of lowercase letters б , г , д , п , and т (Russian Cyrillic alphabet) differ from those used in other Cyrillic alphabets: б , г , д , п , and т (Serbian Cyrillic alphabet). The regular (upright) shapes are generally standardized among languages and there are no officially recognized variations. That presents

7469-781: The shortened version of "Jednoj ženi" as the B-side, was released in Italy. During the same year the music magazine Music Week declared Korni Grupa the Yugoslav Band of the Year based on the votes of the magazine's readers from Yugoslavia. However, disappointed with little success of Not an Ordinary Life and the 12th place won at the Eurovision Song Contest, Kovač decided to disband Korni Grupa. They held two farewell concerts in Studio M in Novi Sad on November 24 and

7566-474: The shortened version of their old composition "Jedna žena", with the slightly altered title "Jednoj ženi" ("To a Woman"). The band also had success with their singles "Divlje jagode" ("Wild Strawberries"), "Zbogom ostaj o, detinjstvo" ("Farewell, Oh, Childhood"), with lyrics from a poem by Milovan Vitezović , "Miris" ("Scent"), with lyrics from Charles Baudelaire 's sonnet "Parfum exotique", and "Praštanje" ("Forgiveness"), with lyrics by poet Brana Crnčević , who

7663-457: The show, ballerinas dancing behind multicoloured plastic cylinders blurring their silhouettes, and actors performing sketches such as dusting the piano or The Lady With the Dog sketch (named after a short story by Anton Chekov ) in which a lady would walk a man on a leash in the first part of the performance and the man walking the lady in the second part. The band was soon invited to perform in

7760-468: The song "Devojčice mala" ("Little Girl"), which was released on a split single with the song "Priča se" ("Rumour Has It") by the quartet 4M. With Topić, the band held their first solo concert in Belgrade, on 6 November 1969 in Belgrade Youth Center. The concert was entitled "Uz malu pomoć naših frendova" (" With a Little Help from Our Friends "). As the audience entered the Center's hall, they were greeted by

7857-625: The song "Etida" was polled, by the listeners of Radio 202 , one of 60 greatest songs released by PGP-RTB / PGP-RTS during the sixty years of the label's existence. The lyrics of the songs "Put za istok", "Moj bol" and "Jedna žena" were featured in Petar Janjatović 's book Pesme bratstva, detinjstva & potomstva: Antologija ex YU rok poezije 1967 - 2007 ( Songs of Brotherhood, Childhood & Offspring: Anthology of Ex YU Rock Poetry 1967 – 2007 ). Former members Serbian Cyrillic alphabet Reformed Serbian based its alphabet on

7954-556: The square. A wide passage through the building marks the entrance into the Bezistan , which is the shortest pedestrian connection with Terazije , the central city square. Terazije Theatre , McDonald's restaurant and Hotel Kasina are located in the buildings which lean on Dom Sindikata in the east. In front of the building, on the square, there is a large fountain and across the square are the Historical Museum of Serbia and

8051-472: The three-part compilation album Ne tako običan život ( Not an Ordinary Life at All ) was released by PGP-RTS , featuring the collected singles, recordings from the progressive phase, the recording of "Jedna žena" from the 1987 reunion concert and the previously unreleased version of the song "Kosovka devojka" with Kovač on lead vocals. In 2008, the same label released the DVD Korni Grupa , featuring

8148-469: The time was playing in his own band Boček i Tri ( Boček and Three ). The new lineup started working on their own vision of progressive music, making recordings of the songs "Jedna žena" ("A Woman"), "Prvo svetlo u kući broj 4" ("The First Light in the House Number 4"), co-written by Topić and Kovač, classical music -inspired "Etida" (" Étude ") and "Žena je luka a čovek brod" ("Woman is a Harbor and Man

8245-419: The two decided to form a new band, inviting Hreljac's former Elipse bandmate, drummer Vladimir "Furda" Furduj, and guitarist Velibor "Borko" Kacl from the also recently-disbanded major Yugoslav band Zlatni Dečaci . Newly-established Korni Grupa then completed their lineup with the arrival of the female singer Miroslava "Seka" Kojadinović in September 1968, with the event receiving significant press coverage due to

8342-540: The two official scripts used to write Serbo-Croatian in Yugoslavia since its establishment in 1918, the other being Gaj's Latin alphabet ( latinica ). Following the breakup of Yugoslavia in the 1990s, Serbian Cyrillic is no longer used in Croatia on national level, while in Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and Montenegro it remained an official script. Under the Constitution of Serbia of 2006, Cyrillic script

8439-534: The vintage photos, the "old feel" will be kept. After the reconstruction, it will have five halls with additional venues, while the Great Hall will be reduced to 1,300 seats and will still be the largest concert hall in Belgrade. In order to make room for the "contemporary works in the style of the Socialist realism ", the new urban concept of Belgrade "ruthlessly demolished all obstacles". In order to create

8536-435: Was Zdravko Čolić who only lasted six months. Zlatko Pejaković took over the vocals after Čolić left. With Pejaković the band recorded their eponymous debut album, which was the first full-length album by a rock band coming from SR Serbia and fourth in Yugoslavia, and an English language second album Not an Ordinary Life , under the name Kornelyans. The band had also performed at the 1974 Eurovision Song Contest reaching

8633-588: Was at the time considered a dissident . In the spring of 1974, they won first place at the Opatija Festival with the song " Moja generacija " ("My Generation"), thus representing Yugoslavia at the 1974 Eurovision Song Contest in Brighton , on which ABBA won the first place, with whom the band had shared the wardrobe. The single with the English-language version of "Moja generacija", with

8730-630: Was based on the Slavic dialect of Thessaloniki . Part of the Serbian literary heritage of the Middle Ages are works such as Miroslav Gospel , Vukan Gospels , St. Sava's Nomocanon , Dušan's Code , Munich Serbian Psalter , and others. The first printed book in Serbian was the Cetinje Octoechos (1494). It's notable extensive use of diacritical signs by the Resava dialect and use of

8827-526: Was covered in 1970 by French singer Dalida under the title "Ram Dam Dam", the cover achieving large success and leading to a number of covers by European artists. The Yugoslav jazz / funk group Ansambl Saše Subote covered the song "Ivo Lola" on their 1976 extended play Mikado , released for the Soviet market. The song was remixed in 2010 by the Serbian project Laura 2000 on their debut studio album ...pobiću se zadnji put da vidim da l' sam star ( ... I'll Have

8924-492: Was declared a cultural monument in 2013. After the 2017–2018 reconstruction and the grand re-opening on 27 April 2018, it was officially renamed to "Kombank Hall" ( Kombank dvorana ). After changing a sponsor, it was renamed to "mts Hall" ( mts Dvorana ) on 29 April 2022. Dom Sindikata is located on the Nikola Pašić Square , in the municipality of Stari Grad . The building marks the north and north-east border of

9021-481: Was estimated that the repair will cost several hundred thousands of euros. The Great Hall will remain multi-functional (concerts including symphonic orchestras, movies, and shows). Though the number of the seats will be reduced, the stage will be enlarged while the balcony and 20 loges will be kept. One of the halls will also be multi-purposed, adapted for chamber music and congresses and conferences. Large cooling equipment, today obsolete, which occupies an entire room in

9118-631: Was gradually superseded in later centuries by the Cyrillic script, developed around by Cyril's disciples, perhaps at the Preslav Literary School at the end of the 9th century. The earliest form of Cyrillic was the ustav , based on Greek uncial script, augmented by ligatures and letters from the Glagolitic alphabet for consonants not found in Greek. There was no distinction between capital and lowercase letters. The standard language

9215-465: Was never formed mostly owing to Topić's hesitation. In 1979, the 1971 recording of the musical epic "1941." was released as Korni Grupa's posthumous studio album 1941. . Korni Grupa's original guitarist Velibor Kacl died in a car accident on 17 May 1984. In May 1987, Korni Grupa, consisting of Kovač, Furduj, Hreljac, Boček and Dado Topić on lead vocals, reunited to perform, alongside Indexi , Time , YU Grupa , Drago Mlinarec and R.M. Točak Band , at

9312-582: Was published in 1868. He wrote several books; Mala prostonarodna slaveno-serbska pesnarica and Pismenica serbskoga jezika in 1814, and two more in 1815 and 1818, all with the alphabet still in progress. In his letters from 1815 to 1818 he used: Ю, Я, Ы and Ѳ. In his 1815 song book he dropped the Ѣ. The alphabet was officially adopted in 1868, four years after his death. From the Old Slavic script Vuk retained these 24 letters: He added one Latin letter: And 5 new ones: He removed: Orders issued on

9409-434: Was purchased by the movie distributor company "MCF - Megacom film" which became the official leaseholder, as SSSS is still officially the owner of the facility. In July 2017 the facility was closed for the impending complete reconstruction, projected to last up to 8 months. Due to the protected status, the overall appearance has to be preserved. The unique marble floor, banisters and handrails will be repaired and with he help of

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