Poster

CLUBS

King Crimson Festival. The first two concerts in a series designed to introduce current and former members of the legendary group to the Moscow public. The TU project is coming this weekend - - Trey Gunn (war guitar, electronics) and Pat Mastelotto (drums, electronics). TU is half of King Crimson's lineup for the last twelve years. Both musicians are the brightest innovators both in the technique of playing their instruments and in the art of combining electronics and hard rock. Also expected at the concerts are the following guests: the Polish duo Sonus Akrobata, Sergei Starostin and others. April 16 and 17 in “B2” , 23.00.

Tomasz Stanko Quartet (Poland) and “Second Approximation”. Tomasz Stańko is a legendary free jazz trumpeter, twice recognized by Jazz Forum magazine as the best European jazz musician, the second time just recently - in 2002, for the album Soul Of Things. The concert will feature compositions from the quartet's new album Suspended Night. “Second Approximation” - the trio of Andrei Razin, in their music combines jazz traditions with motifs of Russian culture. April 16 at the Moscow House of Music (Theater Hall) , 19.00.

Zbigniew Namyslovsky (saxophone), Joachim Menzel (piano), Arkady Ovrutsky (bass) and Dmitry Sevastyanov (drums). April 16 at Le Club , 20.00.

Alexey Khvostenko (vocals) and Leonid Fedorov (guitar, vocals). April 16 in “Chinese pilot Zhao Da” , 23.00.

Vladimir Volkov (double bass) and Sergey Starostin (vocals, winds). April 16 at “Apshu” , 22.00.

Cudos (Finland). Progressive rock. Also shown will be short films by Aki Kaurismäki about the cult band Leningrad Cowboys and the full-length film Bad Luck Love (dir. Olli Saarela, 2000), a parable about two brothers - residents of the outskirts of East Helsinki. April 16 in “Project O.G.I.” , 22.00. April 17 at the “House” , 20.00.

Concert in memory of Evgeniy Tulyakov. Participants: Igor Bril (piano), Sergey Manukyan (keyboards), Vyacheslav Gorsky (piano), Alexey Kuznetsov (guitar). April 16 at the Jazz-Art Club , 19.30.

“The screams of Vidoplyasov.” April 16 and 17 at Tochka , 10 p.m.

Markscheider Kunst . Reggae. April 16 at the “Club on Brestskaya” , 22.00.

"Night Prospekt" and "Olchey" (Tuva). Ethno-electronics. April 16 at the “Third Way” , 23.00.

Leonid Vintskevich (piano), Nikolai Vintskevich (saxophones), Stekpanna trio: Steve Kershaw (bass), Mads Olsen (guitar), Peter Swerd (drums). Presentation of the jazz album Notes From Underground. April 17 at Le Club , 20.00.

Fedor Chistyakov (accordion, vocals, guitar). April 17 at the “Bunker” , 23.30.

"Dobranoch" Balkan and gypsy dance music. April 17 at “Apshu” , 22.00. April 18 in “Chinese pilot Zhao Da” , 23.00.

Karl Khlamkin. April 17 in “Project O.G.I.” , 22.00.

Alexey Aigi and the ensemble “4`33``”. April 18 at the “House” , 19.30.

CONCERTS

Soloists, choir and symphony orchestra of the Mariinsky Theater , conductor Valery Gergiev. The program includes Tchaikovsky's opera "The Enchantress" in concert performance. As part of the Easter festival. April 16 at the Concert Hall. P.I. Tchaikovsky , 19.00.

João Donato (piano) and the group Cariocas: Luis Alvez (bass) and Wilson das Neves (drums). Concerts of the classic bossa nova. April 16 at the Galina Vishnevskaya Opera Singing Center , 19.00. April 17 in the Great Hall of the Conservatory , 19.00.

Sergey Starostin, Leonid Fedorov, "VolkovTrio", "Sirin". Russian folk and sacred music, ethnojazz. April 18 at the Moscow House of Music , 19.00.

Opening of the cycle “Bach Days in Moscow”.Ruth Cyzak (soprano), Juris Teichmanis (cello), Alexey Ogrinchuk (oboe) and Christina Schornsheim (harpsichord). The program includes works by I.-S. Bach. April 18 in the Small Hall of the Conservatory , 19.00.

MOVIE

"Zatoichi" (Japan, 2003). Directed by Takeshi Kitano. Starring Takeshi Kitano, Tadanobu Asano, Yui Natsukawa. Kitanov's version of the most popular story in Japan about a blind samurai who protects the weak and oppressed. Today and all week the film will be shown with subtitles, and on April 22 it will be released in wide release in dubbing. "Roland" , 20.00.

“The Smile of Mona Lisa” (USA, 2003). Directed by Mike Newell. Starring: Julia Roberts, Kirsten Dunst, Julia Stiles, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Ginnifer Goodwin, Dominic West. In 1953, Berkeley graduate Catherine Willis went to a women's college to teach art history to the students there. Feminist Willis brings healthy confusion into the minds of prim young ladies and infects them with ideas about equality. “America-Cinema”, “Horizon”, “Zaryadye” , “KinoMax-GUM” , “Kodak-Kinomir” , “Five Stars” , “Cinema-Park on Kaluzhskaya”, “Strela”, “Formula Cinema”, “Artistic” "

BALLET

Ballet company Teatro dell'Opera diRoma , soloists Ilze Liepa, Mario Marozzi, Irma Nioradze, Igor Yebra . The ballets “Petrushka”, “Firebird” to the music of Stravinsky and “Scheherazade” to the music of Rimsky-Korsakov will be performed. Choreography by Mikhail Fokin, restored by Andris Liepa. Scenery and costumes by Anna and Anatoly Nezhny based on sketches by Bakst and Golovin. April 16 and 17 at the Kremlin Palace , 19.00.

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