How the Shostakovich music concert in the temple was canceled

In St. Petersburg, at the last moment, one of the concerts of the festival of the Philharmonic "Square" was canceled. He had to go inside the Savior on the blood - it was planned that the works of composer Dmitry Shostakovich to the verses of revolutionary poets will be heard there.

The official reason for the cancellation is “technical problems”. However, the media note that Orthodox activists criticized the concert, calling works on verses of revolutionary poets "ugliness."

“Paper” says that the organizers think about this, what the representative of the site says and who exactly criticized the verses of revolutionary poets in the memorial church.

In the Savior on the blood, a concert “Ten choral poems to the verses of revolutionary poets of the late XIX and early XX centuries” Shostakovich was canceled

From December 10 to 26, the St. Petersburg Philharmonic is held by the XXI International Winter Festival "Square". The program includes dozens of concerts, including the performance of the concert choir of St. Petersburg under the leadership of Vladimir Beletsov inside the blood Savior.

On Wednesday, December 15, the choir was supposed to execute the concert “Ten choral poems to the verses of revolutionary poets of the late 19th and early XX centuries” composer Dmitry Shostakovich. However, on the same day, the Isaakievsky Cathedral GMP of which the complex of which refers to the blood, suddenly canceled the performance. Due to the terms of the festival, the concert could not be transferred.

The Philharmonic is not related to cancellation. “The transfer of the concert of the works of Shostakovich, planned in the Savior on Blood, could be discussed before he was canceled. However, since he was nevertheless canceled, it was too late to discuss his transfer, ”the statement of the deputy artistic director Evgeny Petrovsky said (the document is at the disposal of “ Paper ” ).

At the same time, according to Petrovsky, Shostakovich’s music will nevertheless sound in the Philharmonic on December 18-at a concert of the Academic Symphony Orchestra.

The concert was criticized by Orthodox activists and monarchists. It was called "blasphemous provocation"

The official reasons for the abolition of the Shostakovich music concert in the Savior on the Blood - “Technical”, told “Paper” in the GMP “Isaac's Cathedral”. What are these technical reasons, the press service of the Museum-Monitor was not specified. Further comments on the topic were abandoned.

At the same time, the report on the cancellation of the event in the group of the concert choir of St. Petersburg on VKontakte says that it was decided not to endanger listeners and participants in the concert. " On the eve of the concert, as Fontanka noted , Orthodox activists advocated its cancellation.

For example, on the Constantinople website in the early morning of December 15, a note was released : “There are few revolutions? In St. Petersburg, a blasphemous provocation with a musical slope is prepared. ” In it, the author - Vladimir Khomyakov - compares the concert of Shostakovich’s music with a “shot in the back” in “current difficult conditions for Russia”. He was outraged that the festival positions himself as “the continuing traditions of secular techniques of Imperial St. Petersburg”, while in the Savior on Blood - “on the site of the villainous murder by the terrorists of Emperor Alexander II of the Liberator” - “verses of revolutionary poets” will be heard.

After the concert is canceled, the “Constantinople” was updated. Now there is a signature: “It is obvious that the authorities listened to the voice of the Orthodox community. And this precedent is very important, since there should not be such provocations in our country. ”

In addition, a note about the concert of Shostakovich’s music appeared on December 13 on the Russian Strategy website. Its author believes that "the abbot needs to help prohibit the directorate, this blasphemy, which will lead to the desecration of the temple."

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