11. The concert at the windows of the Gymnasium gave Europe's oldest continuously inhabited city the touch of a European metropolis

Everyone has Advent. Almost every city in Croatia organizes Advent events in its squares. As a rule, the content is the same - the lighting of Advent candles, concerts and catering houses with traditional Advent offers and an ice rink. Additional contents distinguish individual events, especially in smaller towns. It is difficult to jump out and be different within the given framework, and one city succeeded in this thanks to the rich tradition of the music school.

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The Vinkovci Advent stands out from the crowd of other Advents a concert by students and teachers of the primary and secondary music school of Josip Runjanin, which takes place from the window of the Vinkovac Gymnasium which makes this concert more attractive and special.

The Vinkovac gymnasium is the most monumental building in the city center, along with the building of the former Brodsko imvni municipality, today the administration of the branch of Croatian Forests, and in fact these two buildings are the symbol of the town on Bosut. They are located in the pedestrian zone next to the city park and represent the center of the city where city events are held.

What only Vinkovci have is concert orchestra and choir Music school of Josip Runjanin Vinkovci – Christmas concert from the gymnasium window. This unique concert that is the most visited content of Advent of the town on Bosut again this year delighted many visitors who were not prevented by the cold from supporting the young musicians from Vinkovac.

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For the eleventh year in a row, young musicians bring an almost angelic feeling of Christmas with their performance, and give the town on Bosut the touch of a major world metropolis during Advent. Christmas concert from the gymnasium window attractive in performance and visually impressive is the result of successful cooperation between the school, parents, students and professors. It is a project that is studiously prepared months in advance, and every year it is more and more ambitious.

This concert is responsible for the attractiveness of Advent in a city that has been continuously inhabited for 8000 years and where the oldest Indo-European calendar was found and is considered an archaeological paradise.

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The people of Vinkovci are rightly proud of their Music School, which combines a music kindergarten, primary and secondary music school, but they are also proud of their famous fellow citizen Josip Runjanin whose name the school bears. Josip Runjanin, born in Vinkovci, was a Croatian composer and officer in the Austro-Hungarian army, and he set the song to music Antun Mihanović The Croatian homeland, which was declared the Croatian national anthem in 1891 under the title Lijepa naša domovino.

Young musicians growing up under the guidance of Music School professor Josip Runjanin with a Christmas concert from the gymnasium window - but also other unique musical projects with which they enrich the city - spread the word about the school, but also preserve the memory of Runjanin in the best possible way, and maintain the status of Vinkovci as city ​​of music.

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It is interesting how this Vinkovci Christmas concert is some tried to copy, but they did not penetrate the secret of how to organize it successfully, so the Christmas concert from the gymnasium window still remains a magical specialty of Advent in Vinkovac.

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