We must admit that throughout the whole period after the restoration of independence in 1991, the Lithuanian music scene did not experience any signicant aesthetic turn. During the last years of the Soviet era Lithuanian music was far from any kind of a stylistic dead end as the majority of the progressive composers had already formed their musical language in the 1970s and the younger ones were actively experimenting with new forms of composition from the beginning of the 1980s. However, political change undoubtedly had an impact on everyone, and the consequences were inevitably reected in the music scene through various forms: if not through the emergence of new alternatives, then through certain signs of a new artistic identity that were supposed to signify and articulate the political change in society...
http://www.mic.lt/en/discourses/lithuanian-music-link/no-18-january-december-2015/happening/