Anyone who has visited the house-museum of M. K. Čiurlionis in Druskininkai notices a piece of paper pinned to the wall in the big room of the house, which lists which of Mikalojus Konstantinos' brothers and sisters used to play the piano at which hour. From early in the morning throughout the day, music played constantly in the house, and the evening hours were reserved for the eldest brother, the composer. When Mikalojs Konstantinis started improvising, family members, family friends and neighbors gathered in the garden near the house after finishing the work. Jadvyga Čiurlionytė, the composer's youngest sister, captured these evenings very vividly in her memories: "The sun seems to sink into the depths of the earth and sends such a dark bluish cloak to the earth, and with it a longing silence... Then the piano plays, the heart starts to rush, its rhythm merges with the sound of the open window rhythm".
This tradition, created by the composer, was revived and continued in 1965, just a couple of years after the establishment of the memorial house in Druskininkai. And so every year, when we have dinner here on the same meadow of the apple orchard, the sounds of piano music coming from the window intertwine with the voices of birds, the whisper of tree branches swaying in the wind, and other sounds of nature and the city, thus creating a unique aura of a musical experience like no other.