Moscow Digest 004.2015 February 21st&22nd

February 21st&22nd 2015

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Moscow Digest MAGIC Maslenitsa p. 17 ROBERT DOISNEAU “The Beauty of everyday Life” p. 20

DIKSON The boundaries of the ice p. 24

TRIUMPH OF JAZZ XV International Festival p.30

MASLENITSA IN TOWNLET’S EAT PANCAKES!

Dear Friends, Maslenitsa week in Moscow will be held at about 150 different events, we choose for you the best ones! But this is not all, our main themes for the weekend are: Maslenitsa, Expos, Music.

The Maslenitsa weekend will be amazing, the goal is to celebrate it with plenty of activities and eat as much pancakes as you can!

Find our selection of events in Moscow parks and Moscow streets and fully enjoy that bright celebration.

The Expo section is also interesting, view art works of the new genie of Russian Art and the classics of Photography

by Robert Doisneau or plunge in the world of Dixies.

The music section is very melodic this weekend!

Find classical music by Alexander Fiseysky that was listed in the Guinness Book of Records and an international Jazz festival held in two places during the night.

In two words, Eat Pancakes, be Happy and Enjoy Moscow!

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Contents: Maslenitsa in Moscow 06 u Cossack Maslenitsa in the Park “Fili” 09 u Art Maslenitsa at Gorky Park 09 u Maslenitsa Museon Style 09 u The Big Pancake Marathon 10 u Maslenitsa at the Museum of Moscow 11 u Maslenitsa Carnival 12 u Maslenitsa at Kuzminki Park 13 u Orange words 15 u Pancake week at Izmailovo Kremlin 16 u Pancake race in “Sokolniki” 17 u Maslenitsa Magic 18 u OGO Maslenitsa for Kids Expo in Moscow 20 u Robert Doisneau “The Beauty of everyday Life” 24 u Dikson. The boundaries of the ice 26 u Power Point project by Alexander Pogorzhelsky Music in Moscow 29 u Alexander Fiseysky “Sebastian Bach and the German Romanticism” 30 u XV International Festival “Triumph of Jazz”

Cover: Maslenitsa (see p. 06-18)

Moscow Weather source: gismeteo.ru

February, 21st -2 +2 Cloudy

February, 22nd -2 +2 Cloudy/Rain

Maslenitsa in Moscow Maslenitsa celebration is beloved by all!

Not only because on this day there are plenty of fun games and competitions. During Maslenitsa everyone feels the coming of spring, the rebirth of nature. From that appear on people’s faces smiles and the heart gets a little warmer.

Find the secrets of the future with “ Maslenitsa Magic� and the best places to go for Maslenitsa from about 150 events held for the happy occasion.

Cossack Maslenitsa in the Park “Fili” 06

Maslenitsa - traditional Russian holiday.

But Russia is so vast and multifaceted that it is composed of representatives of different nations and ethnic groups. They are characterized by both Russian and original tradition. In the 18th century on the

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outskirts of the Russian government formed a special class, called “Cossacks”.

They have different origins; their customs are slightly different depending on the area of residence, but the Cossacks - certainly original and unique culture.

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Pancake Day will be celebrated in the best traditions of the Cossacks in the park “Fili”.

In addition to traditional pancakes and burning effigies, guests can enjoy original Cossack songs and dances.

Visitors can enjoy a mix of wonder

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ful voices Cossack Choir.

Necessarily take horseback riding; all life is connected with the Cossacks these graceful animals.

Maslenitsa in the park “Fili” will be celebrated for three days. Each time the event will be dedicated to the Cossacks of a certain region.

Festival will be held in the traditions of the Kuban, Don and Terek Cossacks.

Fili Park 22, B. filevskaya str. m. Bagartionovskaya www.parkfili.com

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Art Maslenitsa

snowboard scene will battle the top 12 riders.

Pushkinskaya Quay will explode from all the interesting events - contests and competitions.

collective image of the clouds in the form of a cold winter, and the symbolic burning of effigies of the winter and is waiting for the coming spring. February 22 at 20:30 will take place the very act - the burning effigy of Maslenitsa.

Artist Olga Lesnikova presents his art object called “The snow cloud”, the meaning of which is the

The pro-line Burton x Gorky Park will host the final competition titled “Trumpet Calls!”, where the main

Gorky Park 9, Korovy Val Str., m. Oktyabrskaya www.park-gorkogo.com

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Kids. They will make a crowd for their lively dancing and funny ditties. All guests can also, if desired, have a special make up and even choose a dress !

Whydo this?- So you can play on stage !

A very special day waits for you, there you will play with real artists by a prepared scenery.

Don’t worry if you don’t feel yourself playing on a stage, a sweet market will be held around all the acting so you can just observe whilsty shopping

to get on the art installation, which is a large nest of sticks and straw. There will be “bird” master classes on making whistles and quiz guessing voices of birds.

Come here with your family or a cheerful company of friends to celebrate Maslenitsa with Pancakes at Park of Arts “Museon”. On the Krymskaya Quay for everyone will be prepare a lot of entertainment and interesting art objects.

Those who come to celebrate the holiday will meet funny clowns from Baldu

The Big Pancake Marathon One of the central celebrations will be celebrated on the street of Kuznetsky Most Str. There will be built shopping streets, with plenty of www.intermarkrelocation.ru

Children will be delighted beautiful decorations for the holiday, bright ribbons, spring birds, and will offer the most unusual pancakes.

Participants of the “pancake marathon” promise to make more than 50 kinds of toppings and bake about 40 thousand varieties of pancakes, including bright ones - all colours of the rainbow.

Within half an hour they will show what they are capable in the fight for the top prize from the store B-Shop!

The contest will be held on February 21st at 6pm.

Symbolic farewell to winter will be held by launching in the sky a huge balloon with rags-memories.

The event will end with a festive disco.

Museon Park 10, Krymsky Val str. m. Oktyabrskaya, m. Park Kultury www.muzeon.ru These pancakes in Moscow you can try for only there and for the first time the recipe of their manufacturing is created specifically by the partner of the project, the network of home-cooked food “Teremok”.

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Maslenitsa at the Museum of Moscow

The Museum of Moscow this year present Maslenitsa Celebration from a different angle Of course there will be plenty of pancakes, music, dancing, carnival costumes, but also a very special Maslenitsa Farewell Day. The organizers have prepared a number of interesting and unusual entertainments. There you will find master classes, where you can learn how to make clay toys. Or add your own drawings on the walls of cardboard town.

Children will try to make carnival costumes and plenty can play on the court.

The organizers take their shooting over pancakes,

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walking on stilts, tug of war and the battle of pillows.

Maslenitsa, which is traditionally burned at the festival, will be very unusual. It will be made from garbage that will not burn. All the guests together after the “burning� will make a garbage selection, to send it for a recycling.

This is a very clear environmental lesson.

Museum of Moscow is just near our office!

2, Zubovsky Boulevard, m. Park Kultury www.mosmuseum.ru

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Maslenitsa Carnival On February 22nd, at the Cultural Centre ZIL will be held a European format carnival. On a family holiday you can create and try unusual ways to play the instrument kazoo, thousands of pancakes, as well as Russian and European music performed by Ozherelie (Necklace in English) and Yarmarka (fair in English) Musical groups Maslenitsa is not a purely Slavic holiday. Every year before the beginning of Lent the whole Christian world arranges colourful and cheerful celebration. We call it Maslenitsa, and in Europe – Mardi Gras.

Studio drums “Samba real” teach those who wishing to play the kazoo, easy to handle voice modulator, with which you can imitate the voices of animals.

Participants of Italian carnivals often use this tool. Then happens the mass march music.

In the lobby the visitors will meet the ensemble of folk instruments Yarmarka.

Musicians, performing tunes from different countries (France, Italy, Germany), create an atmosphere of European holiday. Feel the mood Russian Maslenitsa with the folk ensemble Ozherelie.

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One of the main parts of the carnival – is the masquerade. Guests of the Cultural Centre will be able to participate in a kind of rite of reincarnation. During the program, Workshops Art Design “Awakening” one learns from what and for what purpose was made masks in different European countries, as well as be able to choose a favourite image, create and try it. The participants of this artistic experiment master a variety of graphical techniques: collage, stencil prints and others.

The holiday costume show visitors and the ensemble “Samba Real Madrid”. schedule: 13:00 - 14:30 - master-class ensemble “Samba real” game on kazoo.

13:00 - 13:30 - performance of the ensemble of folk instruments Yarmarka.

13:00 - 14:30 - MHP interactive program on “Awakening”.

14:00 - 14:30 - folk ensemble Ozherelie.

14:30 - 15:00 - performance of the ensemble “Samba Real Madrid.”

On February 22nd 4, Vostotchnaya str. Bld. 1 m. Elektrozavodskaya www. zilcc.ru

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Maslenitsa at Kuzminki Park

During the whole Pancake week in the park “Kuzminki� will have festive fairs. Wizards kept the best traditions of Russian crafts and ready to present their creations.

Here you can find unique items from yarn, straw dolls, clay whistles and much more.

The fair will be accompanied by fragrant treats, most of which, of course, will be the pancakes. The main event is scheduled on the day of Maslenitsa celebrations.

Fair flooded funny clowns, singers and dancers in the headdress. Above them will rise to the huge circus stilts, and the crowd will be heard choral singing of folk musicians and singers.

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Several rooms feature a unique mix of Russian traditions and modern trends.

Also find there a theatrical performance from the band Yoki.

For children, Pancake Day is to be really entertaining.

Under the guidance of chefs and teachers they will participate in the drafting of the big picture of pancakes.

Each child will be able to ride a painted wooden carousel and play active games.

Kuzminky Park 1, Kuzminky Park, bld.2 m. Kuzminki www.park-kuzminki.ru

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Pancake week at Izmailovo Kremlin Let’s say bye to winter with songs, dances, exciting games and competitions.

Izmailovo Kremlin Entrance fee : 200 RUB 73J (Ж)Izmailovskoe Shosse m. Partizanskaya www.kremlin-izmailovo.com

In addition to the bright concert the program offers entertainment from professional artists and animators. Also, for everyone will be held creative and craft workshops. The most daring visitors can face off in fistfights and take part in other amusements. For children, there are special interactive play areas.

Regain strength after an active outdoor recreation will be the strength of fragrant hot pancakes with delicious toppings and other Russian dishes.

The culmination of the festival will be a spectacular burning of the Maslenitsa, which will complete each of the festivities days.

Maslenitsa in the Izmailovo Kremlin takes place in the best traditions of Russian holiday and every year is very popular – last year the event attended by more than 10 thousand people!

Come meet the spring with Izmailovsky Park!

It will be fun!

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Pancake race at “Sokolniki”

During the happy holiday of Maslenitsa it is so nice to have a walk in the fresh air and eat pancakes. The burning of Maslenitsa and dancing is a yearly tradition.

The park “Sokolniki” figured out how to make Maslenitsa unusual, but still with preserving Russian traditions.

All citizens that support a healthy lifestyle can participate in the race in the Pancake “Sokolniki”. Participants will overcome the distance in a choice of one or three kilometres. At the same outfit every runner should be an element of traditional Russian clothing.

You can just run in boots or painted handkerchief, or fully dressed in Russian folk costume.

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Each participant pays a small arrangement fee, which goes for a good cause. All collections from the celebration of the race will be used to help the charity program “Skiing dreams”. This program covers the rehabilitation of people with a diagnosis of cerebral palsy and helps them begin to play sports.

On February 21st Entrance fee : 250RUB Start: 1pm Sokolniki Park 1, Sokolnitchesky Val Str. m. Sokolniki park.sokolniki.com

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Maslenitsa Magic On that special week, Russian people believe that magic happens; especially for unmarried girl. In those days divinations are known to happen!

The first baked pancake on Pancake week is judged on its outcome:

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If a pancake rolled easily this year you will get married or will be even more in love with your partner if you are already married;

If the middle turned black – husband/wife is faithful. If the side – he/she will admire neighbours more than you;

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How many holes in the pancake - so many kids in the whole family;

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Beautiful rosy pancake – healthy you will be; if pale – might get ill

If a pancake stuck to the pan – spend 3 years more at the parental home; Smooth edges in pancake a happy marriage is waiting for you, or happiness with your partner;

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Thin pancake - for an easy life, thick – for much work.

The edges are uneven, ragged - you need to think twice before getting married, your choice is not so good for you;

Another magic way to enjoy this celebration is...

...to treat others!

Bake pancakes with different fillings and give them away to passers-by.

Take notice, who will take the first pancake: male or female - this will be the sex of the next new born in your family.

All pancakes are taken waiting for good fortune for the new coming year.

Find an amazing recipe for Russian Pancakes in our Maslenitsa guide!

How many pancakes would remain - so many years you will be unmarried or unhappy in your relationship.

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OGO Maslenitsa for Kids On February 21st, and February 22nd - Maslenitsa celebration in “Wow-Town”.

Find a truly Kids style Maslenitsa Celebration!

There will take place free creative workshops “Spring sun” for kids from 3 years.

February 21: 10:00: 22:00 - works Playground “Labyrinth”; 11:00: 20:00 - clown Smeshilka welcomes guests; 11:00: 20:00 - game with the teacher-animator; 12:00: 20:00 - creative workshops (painting and decoration, candle and soap),

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cooking classes (pancakes with honey cakes and gingerbread); 12:00: 20:00 - free master class “Spring sun”; 12:00: 13:10 - theatrical performance “Carnival” (Mini-play “How in the realm of state-Carnival stole” the game program, carnival carousel, carnival removal, burning, carnival, dancing).

All parties to provide waiting for a gift - a culinary master class “pancake cake” Malinka”; 12:00 - “Lawn-poigrayka” program for kids from one year to three years; 17:00 - performance of “The Steadfast Tin Soldier”.

February 22: 10:00: 22:00 - works Playground “Labyrinth”; 11:00: 20:00 - clown Smeshilka welcomes guests;

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11:00: 20:00 - game with the teacher-animator; 12:00: 20:00 - creative workshops (painting and decoration, candle and soap zavodik), cooking classes (pancakes with honey cakes and gingerbread);12:00: 20:00 - free master class “Spring sun”; 12:00 - “Lawn-poigrayka” program for kids from one year to three years; 12:00 - performance of “The Adventures of Snegovichka”; 17:00: 18:30 - “Shrovetide fun” (Funny clowns and mummers, master class on making cakes pancake, zazyvalki, song and dance, Vintage Russian fun, games, rituals and traditions, treats with fragrant Russian tea).

Family center OGO Gorod Pavlovskaya 18, m. Tulskaya www.ogogorod.ru

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Expo in Moscow Enjoy the beauty of everyday life with the famous French artist Rebert Doisneau, that know how to portray emotions through the camera lens as well as an interesting exhibition - the most promising young painters of Russia.

For those who prefer travel photography, plunge into the world of the northern Russian settlements with the research project by the Photographer Beat Schweizer and writer Urs Mannhart.

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Robert Doisneau “The Beauty of everyday Life” Born in a northern suburb of Paris in 1912, Robert Doisneau retained a lifelong connection to this city.

It was his hunting ground, ready to be used, his chosen source of images and emotions. Paris was his world, photography his pretext, curiosity his driving force and lightness his style. Nobody else could take such unforgettable photographs, capturing an imperceptible moment of balance, the fruit of his rare mastery and its relentless cultivation. One of the most important representatives of humanistic photography, Robert Doisneau went a long way from professional craft to artwork of unexpected seriousness, capturing on film fragments of a world to which he wished to bear witness.

He grew up in a petit bourgeois world that he never really loved but from which he never completely detached himself. Having finished his studies, he started to work as a draughtsman at Atelier Ullman. In 1931, he became an assistant to André Vigneau. www.intermarkrelocation.ru

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In 1934, he was employed by the Renault factories and left this job five years later to join the celebrated photography agency Rapho.

Thanks to the intellectual Robert Giraud, whom Doisneau met in 1947, he gained access to the world of night life that was so far from his own and that, perhaps for this very reason, completely fascinated him.

Doisneau’s first book, La Banlieu de Paris (a joint project with Blaise Cendrars), was published in 1949.

Success soon followed: his photos became known all over the world.

Doisneau became, perhaps without even wanting it, the ‘portraitist’ of a city, Paris, and of a world, partly real and partly invented, in which it would be beautiful to live.

For many years he was looked upon as the minstrel of picturesque Paris, with a charming eye and a unique sense of the unexpected visual anecdote.

As a result, he was championed as a poet of the ‘pure’ moment.

Doisneau’s oeuvre is, however, much deeper and complex than that reputation suggests. This exhibition presents his famous images set alongside some previously unseen in public.

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This extensive selection provides us with an updated critical re-reading, showing us how the apparent spontaneous beauty of his photographs was, in fact, the result of considerable work.

Aside from the streets of Paris, where he encountered and portrayed lovers and children, Doisneau also produced some remarkable and unexpected colour photographs. In 1960, the magazine Fortune engaged the French photographer to reveal the life of an exceptional city, born like a brilliantly coloured flower in the middle of the Californian desert: Palm Springs. Doisneau accepted the challenge and, amid the desert sands, palms and cobalt blue sky, the noisy inhabitants’ flashy attire, cocktails and golf courses, created his own personal American dream — not in black and white, but in an explosion of colour. The images from the album Palm Springs 1960 reveal a little-known side of this great photographer, and even the most seasoned experts will be surprised and carried away by the festive and ironic universe that Doisneau created.

And here lies the paradox of one who wished to carry out his work like a street artist, with the chaste joy and fun of an artist malgré lui.

Until 1994, the year of his demise, Robert Doisneau lived with his camera as his constant companion, curious about this little theatre in which he was an actor.

MAMM 16, Ostozhenka Str. m. Kropotkinskaya www.mamm-mdf.ru

Doisneau always approached his work with a little self-mockery. Perhaps, it was his antidote to the anguish of not being a jester, a tight-rope walker or a magician, as he was too much of a realist.

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Dikson.

The boundaries of the ice

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Research project by the Photographer Beat Schweizer and writer Urs Mannharta of the northern Russian settlement - Dikson.

Centre of Photography Lumiere brothers with the support of the Swiss Embassy in Moscow presents the exhibition “Dikson.

The boundaries of the ice”.

This research project is a photographer and writer Beat Schweizer Urs Mannharta about the northern Russian settlement - Dikson.

Beat Schweizer - a famous photographer who has exhibited and worked a lot for the world’s major publications, from The Guardian to Die Zeit.

exchange between Russia and Switzerland, initiated by the Swiss Council for Culture “Pro Helvetia”, and then in Orenburg in the framework of the 200th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between Switzerland and Russia, and also in the Swiss Museum “Pentax Pask Art” in Biel.

This series has received the third prize at the prestigious Swiss photo contest «EWZ Selection».

Lumiere brothers Gallery Entrance fee: 200-430 RUB 3, Bolotnaya Quay, bld. 1 www.lumiere.ru

Urs Mannhart - the author of several novels, one of which, “Lynx”, became a bestseller.

Both came and went through Norilsk Dixon - the northernmost settlement in Russia, access to which is extremely difficult.

The result of a trip to Dikson became Mannharta report, as well as a joint photo exhibition Ursa and Beata “Dikson Life / Ice margins”, reflecting the daily life of the city in the Arctic Circle.

Captured in 2013, the series was exhibited in Krasnoyarsk, Vladivostok, in the framework of cultural

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Power Point project by Alexander Pogorzhelsky Moscow Museum of Modern Art presents the Power Point project by Alexander Pogorzhelsky, one of the most promising young painters of Russia.

The artist’s oeuvre is remarkable for the desire to identify the essence of the moment, colour perception and vision of reality. Alexander Pogorzhelsky analyses his feelings that arise in the process of contemplation. The author paints his artworks on memory, researching their new facets.

The artworks call to reflect on the transience of time and on what remains when the boundaries of visual and sensual are eliminated.

The exhibition on the ground floor at 10, Gogolevsky Boulevard is conventionally divided into four interrelated parts. The works are made as field sketches. The exhibition is based on the images of megaliths that are located in all corners of the globe, often called the power points.

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Characters and objects that excite the author are in the canvases to emphasize the inexhaustible admiration of the mankind before the ancient monuments. Tourists, traditionally loaded with cameras, rucksacks and other objects of camp life, catch the eye of the artist. In contrast with them, in canvases there are people, who are able to put everyday objects aside, to feel the majesty of forms of the ancient artifacts and to experience the history of the place. The ancient stone monuments and rock paintings are the next part of the composition and form the focus of the scenery, making amazing landscapes. Modern abstract sculptures that surround us in the everyday life of big cities seem to be inspired by the strange forms of the prehistoric monuments.

MMOMA Until March 9th 10, Gogolevsky Boulevard, m. Tverskaya www.mmoma.ru

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Music in Moscow “Music is an agreeable harmony for the honour of God and the permissible delights of the soul.�

-Johann Sebastian Bach Classical or Jazz?

This weekend the choice is easy; just listen to your feeling, what like you more? An amazing classical music concert played by a man listed in the Guinness Book of Records or an amazing international Jazz concert?

XV International Festival “Triumph of Jazz” Emerged in the early 20th century, as a musical phenomenon, jazz is a mixture of African and European culture. Received a huge spread in the United States and in Europe, subdued jazz music lovers, and along with other musical currents has earned its right to exist. Especially the performance of jazz improvisation and original steel swing.

Igor Butman being terrific saxophonist and People’s Artist of Russia, created a jazz orchestra, which to this day continues day tour through Europe, the US and Russia.

During this time in our country has grown an amazing generation of jazz musicians who will perform almost on par with the world’s luminaries of the art.

Five-time winner of the award “Grammy”, the author of music to masterpieces of American cinema, Terence Blanchard and his new band E-collective, will be the main participants of the festival, and to support them to perform two-time winner of awards “Grammy”, whose collective 30 years of creativity, was recognized around the world - a group of Yellow Jackets. Russia also introduced the young, but has already proven its worth, the team Lebedev / Revnyuk Project.

On February 21th Moscow International House of Music 52, Kosmodemianskaya Quay, bld. 8 m. Paveletskaya Start : 7pm www.mmdm.ru Igor Butman Jazz Club 21, Verkhnaya Radishevskaya m. Taganskaya Start: 8.30 pm www.butmanclub.ru

Himself Igor Butman and his orchestra will perform at the closing ceremony. In addition to the packed program of “Triumph of Jazz”, so all visitors will be pleased, and other interesting events.

The Festival will be held in Producer, talented jazz sing- two places er, Igor Butman back in 2000 for the first time held a festival “Triumph of Jazz”, thereby giving an incredible boost to the development of music in Russia. This year’s festival will be a jubilee.

During the 15 years of its existence, it was visited by a huge number of world jazz artists whose names are known all lovers of jazz.

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Alexander Fiseysky “Sebastian Bach and the German Romanticism�

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In the first concert of the unique cycle “Sebastian Bach and European romanticism” by the Honored Artist of Russia, professor at the Gnessin Academy of Music - Alexander Fiseysky present organ works of Sebastian Bach and the German Romantics. There will feature Chorale Preludes and Variations on chorales of Felix Mendelssohn, Johannes Brahms and Franz Liszt, as well as the Introduction and Passacaglia in Do Minor by Max Reger.

Fiseysky Alexander studied at the Moscow Conservatory with brilliant teachers V. Gornostaeva (piano) and L. Roizman (organ). He has performed with many renowned orchestras, soloists and singers. Partners were musician Valery Gergiev and Vladimir Fedoseyev, V. Minin and A. Korsakov, E. and M. Haupt Hëfs, E. Obraztsova and V. Levko.

Organist participated in major music festivals, has recorded more than 40 LPs and CDs on historic and modern organs carried premieres of works by Boris Tchaikovsky, O. Galakhova, M. Kołłątaj, V. Ryabov and others.

Significant events organist performing career associated with the name of Johann Sebastian Bach.

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Musician repeatedly executed a cycle of all of Bach organ works in Russia and the former Soviet Union. 250th anniversary of Bach’s death in 2000, Fiseysky made a unique series of concerts, performing four times all organ works of the great German in his homeland.

And in Dusseldorf this cycle was performed within one day (19 hours of execution lasted!). Compact discs containing fragments Düsseldorf “organ marathon,” published by the German company Griola.

Alexander Fiseysky was listed in the Guinness Book of Records the world (the Russian analogue of the Guinness Book of Records).

Recitals organist with great success in Berlin, Munich, Hamburg, Magdeburg, Paris, Strasbourg, Milan, Gdansk and other European towns.

The most important part of the educational activities of the musician is to promote the national heritage of the organ. It seminars and master classes in Russian music in foreign universities, CD recording “200 Years of Russian Organ Music”, three-volume edition of “Organ music in Russia” in the publishing house Bärenreiter (Germany). In March 2009, the monograph A. Fiseyskogo “Authority in the history of world music (III century BC. E. - 1800)”.

The program includes: JS Bach. Prelude and Fugue in C Major, BWV 531 Three Chorale processing: Kyrie, Gott heiliger Geist, BWV 671; Dies sind die heil’gen zehn Gebot ‘, BWV 678; Wir glauben all ‘an einen Gott, BWV 680 F. Mendelssohn-Bartholdy.

Chorale and Variation Herzlich tut mich verlangen Allegro in D Minor J. Brahms. Three Chorale Preludes, Op. 122: Es ist ein Ros’ entsprungen Herzlich tut mich verlangen O Welt ich muss dich lassen F. Liszt. Variations on a Theme Weinen, Klagen, Sorgen, Zagen M. Reger. Introduction and Passacaglia in D Minor On February 22nd Start: 7 pm Tickets: 400 – 1200 RUB Sts. Peter and Paul Cathedral 7, Starosadsky Pereulok m. Kitay Gorod www.peter-paul.ru

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