Pictures and pictures

Cultural events September 29 - October 6

This week the festival of new British cinema starts in the capital, the Silver Camera photo competition and exhibitions of artists Alexander Dzhikia, Francisco Infante and Nonna Goryunova open. The Moscow Conservatory will begin to celebrate its 140th anniversary, and Goran Bregovic will remind about weddings and funerals.

September 29 and 30

Goran Bregovic and his “Wedding and Funeral Orchestra” bring to Moscow the program “Tales & Songs for Weddings and Funerals”, which includes the indispensable hits of Balkan-Slavic sorrow and fun, such as “In the Death car”, “Underground Tango-Ausencia” and "Kalashnikov". was chosen as the venue "Forum Hall" .

September 30th

of The “School of Dramatic Art” Anatoly Vasilyev will host open screenings of sketches for the play “Goya. Guests from Darkness,” staged by Japanese choreographer Min Tanaka to the music of Mozart and Vladimir Martynov.

In the Chamber Hall of the House of Music, a “theatrical and musical performance” about Fyodor Tyutchev “O you, last love!”, invented and staged by Mikhail Kozakov and the Hermitage ensemble of soloists led by Alexei Utkin, will be shown. The music chosen is Albinoni, Britten, Massenet, Strauss, Bach and Shostakovich.

September 30 - October 15

Design Center The Artplay is organizing an exhibition of Alexander Dzhikia called “Retrospection”, timed to coincide with the release of the artist’s “Full Catalog”. His absurd and heartbreakingly touching pictures, according to one critic, can convince the viewer that “irony and pity will save the world.”

A fragment of one of Alexander Dzhikia’s works from the site artplay.ru

October 1

The musical project "Return" opens a new season at the House of Music with a performance by the chamber ensemble Das Neue Trio (Pavel Strugalev - oboe, Thomas Lindhorst - clarinet, Uwe Rebers - bassoon). The concert will feature horn player Markus Schleich and pianist Yakov Katznelson. The program includes works by Bach, Flieger, Bozza, and Mozart.

In the Great Hall of the Conservatory, Vladimir Fedoseev and the Tchaikovsky Big Symphony Orchestra, led by him , open the new season with Beethoven's Ninth Symphony. To perform this monument, they were assisted by Swiss bass Alfred Muffe, Lithuanian tenor Algirdas Janutas, soprano Oksana Lesnichaya, mezzo-soprano Irina Romishevskaya, the Moscow academic chamber choir and the children's choir "Spring".

2 October

In the Tchaikovsky Hall, Yuri Bashmet and his Moscow Soloists, together with a jazz trio led by Boris Frumkin, Dutch double bassist Marius Betz and drummer Jost Patochka, play music by Gershwin, Satie and many other composers from classical films. The program is called accordingly - Crossover concerto .

29th of October

The Moscow Conservatory is organizing a week of special concerts in honor of its 140th anniversary. The celebration will begin on Monday with a performance by the symphony orchestra conducted by Vladimir Ponkin. Works by Rachmaninov and Taneyev will be performed.

October 2 - 25

The Manege will host another exhibition of photo reports about Moscow, “Silver Camera” . Despite the fact that 2006 is gradually drawing to a close, prizes will be awarded for 2005 (in three categories - “Architecture”, “Events and Everyday Life”, “Persons”).

October 3

An elegant program for the anniversary of Dmitry Shostakovich will be presented in the Great Hall of the Conservatory by Mikhail Pletnev, his Russian National Orchestra and conductor Vladimir Yurovsky: the composer’s First and Fifteenth Symphonies, that is, the beginning and the result of his symphonic work.

The 4th of October

A concert entitled “Quo Vadis?” will take place in the Svetlanov Hall of the House of Music. from the works of Mikael Tariverdiev, dedicated to the 75th anniversary of the composer. Participating are Yuri Bashmet, organists Istvan Matthias, (Hungary) and Jean-Pierre Stivers (Netherlands).

Still from the film "Euphoria" from the official website

club The CINE PHANTOM will host a pre-premiere screening of Ivan Vyrypaev's film "Euphoria" , who returned from Venice a few weeks ago with the youth award of the local film festival - a golden lion cub.

From October 4

The Historical Museum continues its chamber project "Living Exhibition" , launched in collaboration with the Tsarskoye Selo Museum. This time the main character of the micro-exhibition will be the uniform dress of Catherine II in the uniform of the Cavalry Corps (1766).

October 5

The Svetlanov State Academic Symphony Orchestra celebrates its 70th anniversary in the Great Hall of the Conservatory . Stars invited to participate in the program of works by Rachmaninov, Tchaikovsky, Shostakovich and Saint-Saëns: pianists Nikolai Petrov and Denis Matsuev, cellists Alexander Rudin and Alexander Knyazev, violinists Maxim Fedotov and Alena Baeva.

5 - 12 October

Festival, At the seventh New British Film the organizers brought the 2006 Cannes winner, The Wind That Shakes the Barley by Ken Loach, and a host of other films, including Wah-wah by Richard E. Grant, starring Emily Watson and Gabriel Byrne. , "Dazed" by Stephen Wooley (about Rolling Stones guitarist Brian Jones).

October 5 - November 6

Artists Francisco Infante and Nonna Goryunova at the Museum of Modern Art will host a joint exhibition “Artifacts” of almost half a thousand works . Their meaning is to create a “complex reflection-distortion of the surrounding landscape” using threads, fishing lines, mirrors and cameras.

October 6

Zoot Woman group. Photo from the official website

ELO -II, the Electric Light Orchestra of the second convocation, again comes to the Orange club and plays old, decades-tested songs - “Evil Woman”, “Strange Magic”, “Roll Over Beethoven”, without ceasing to quarrel with the founding father of the group Jeff Lynn.

Stuart Price, producer of Madonna and a couple of other stars of the first magnitude, sends his next brainchild to Moscow - the group Zoot Woman , playing synth-pop, sounding something like Duran Duran, Joy Division, The Cure and Erasure taken in equal doses and ironically mixed. You can hear them at the 35 mm cinema-club .

Lenta.ru: About the high: Pictures and pictures