Feast of obedience

On the way from Perm to Europe, the Great Festival orchestra of Theodore Krentzis, gathering for the final of the Diaghilev festival, made a stop in Moscow. The program is the same everywhere. Sometimes it seems that the audience too, because its most faithful part really moves behind its idol in different cities. This year, in the long -term Malera cycle of Kurentsis, the Fourth Symphony was come. At first, she was played in Perm in the fifth workshop of the Shpagin plant (until recently, who was engaged in snowmobile equipment, and now becoming one of the 14 sites of the festival), then in the opera Theater, yesterday - in the Moscow Hall of Tchaikovsky, and tomorrow they play in the Vienna concerthouse. In the last three cases, symphonies precede, as sketches for the picture, Malera songs on folk texts from the collection “The Magic Horn of the Boy”. The soloists are the evil wizard Florian Besh (bass bariton) and the fairy-tale Princess Anna Lucy Richter (soprano).

At the Moscow concert, most of all, I was waiting for the third, slow, part of the symphony - it could be assumed that on the waves of the Kurentzis orchestra in her sinless happiness I would want to swim forever. The expectations were justified in full, even an unexpected bonus formed. It was in the third part that the next telephone rang, the maestro stopped the music, reported a caught audience as guilty first -graders, withstood a harsh meditative pause and began part again. From shame, the hall (whose phones the conductor tried to speak in the first department) even stopped clapping between the parts. But the sinless happiness, so we got even more supposed. The hot music of the young Serb Marco Nicodievich played on BIS with an irresistibly shaking conductor completed the concert with universal reconciliation and football decibels of the enthusiastic hall.

Here a painful question arises, invariably accompanies the current general fashion for a charismatic Greek. Who is this all for? If the tickets to the ground are 20 thousand, then at least one phone will call. The situation with cheap tickets, of course, also does not guarantee anything, but here - without options. Krentzis is a lakesher segment of our musical market: such is the economy of his Perm perfectionist miracle. A prefabricated orchestra from Musicaeterna and excellent musicians from around the world, beautiful ileyna protachin as the first violin - and heels, bags, important officials and businessmen, Ingeborg Dapkunaite and Ksenia Sobchak. The flight of an enlightened music lover from all this Moscow glamor to a quiet Perm is the same lakesher segment, just plus a flight, a hotel and dinner on the shore of the Kama. The advertising section in the booklet of the Diaghilev festival, presenting the Perm Territory as a real resort, is becoming more and more confident from year to year. And the visiting public at the festival, as it seems, is more than the Perm actual. Well, what can you say? Is the percentage of Venetians high among visitors to the Venetian Biennale?

Somewhere exactly there, towards the Italian exhibition of the latest achievements of contemporary art, the Kurentzis festival is moving. From the list of its events of the international level, the head is dizzy. Yes, the repertoire existence of the local opera and ballet theater somehow completely went into the shadow. But we understand that everything exists for the sake of the main event of the year - the festival. It has already been solemnly announced that the next Diaghilevsky would open on May 18 by the opera of Alban Berg in the production of Maxim Didenko.

Of course, Tchaikovsky, of course, cannot be found in the dense ten -day program of the current festival of Mozart or, say, of course. In their place in the role of the well -known classic - Leonid of Tenthnikov (one of the prime minister of the festival is 24 preludes for the piano "Bukovinsky songs" performed by Alexei Harbool). But find Romeo Castelpelchi , Robert Lepazha (the play "Needles and opium" of the Canadian theater company EX Machina ), a selection of French spectralist composers performed by the legendary Ensemble Modern , the no less legendary American avant -garde artist Meredit Monk with his own person (the performance “Ceil Songs”) and so on. Status sensations alternate with not always successful laboratory work in the genre “The road to young and not only” (without performance of the daughter of Karayan about Shostakovich , frankly, could have been dispensed with), jazz, ethnic Turkish music and Greek-Byzantine chants.

On the festival club there is the slogan “Do not sleep!”, And this is not only the name of one of the festival climaxes - the performance of Alena Payer, in which his fantastic, for all the finished Belgian troupe Les Ballets C. de La B lives his body symphony of Mahler, mixed with African polyphony. Not up to sleep should be absolutely involved. So the Theodor Krentzis tells. And usually achieves obedience. Diaghilev festival - contrary to advertising in the booklet - not a resort. We are not late for a free educational program in a festival club, otherwise we can’t break there. After evening events, do not disperse. We spend midnight on the floor in Diaghilev’s house. We meet the dawn on Kama after a concert in the Perm Gallery. And do not forget that on the second floor of the Ural Hotel, beds are placed for visitors to the night performance Sleep Concert . And phones in the middle of music have not been calling here for a long time.