The Czech conductor-patriarch performs works by Dvorak and Janacek together with the orchestra and choir of the Bolshoi Theater and soloists Ekaterina Shcherbachenko, Evgenia Segenyuk, Maxim Pasteur, Taras Shtonda. Thu 20 December, 19.00

Malcolm Gladwell “Insight: The Power of Instant Decisions”, Williams, Moscow, 2008 Author: columnist for The New Yorker, the white bone of American journalism, who has written two phenomenally interesting books - “The Tipping Point” and “Insight”. Perhaps the best storyteller in the world today “High growth can provide more than just a leadership position. <...> A centimeter of height costs 311 dollars in annual salary.

are already becoming a good tradition, as is the release of a new record. And now they have released a new album, “Romances” (read about it in the “Music” section). Having finished with the trilogy "Bezonders" - "Metal" - "Beauty", and at the same time with the poetry of Smurov, they again turned to the poems of Vvedensky and Khvostenko; the instrumentation, apparently, remained unchanged: puny guitar chords, heavy double bass, a moderate amount of noise and din.

Play by O. Shishkin. Directed by E. Novikova. Starring O. Burygin, V. Davydovskaya, N. Alferov, A. Kurilov and others. In one city, a youth group dances disco. It’s so great that he receives an invitation to Moscow for the “Morning Star” program. Their teacher, a good person and an enthusiast, Vladimir Ivanovich, believes in the children, but does not believe cleaning lady and skeptic Varvara Nikitichna Bochkareva.

chthonic beings kill her attitude. “Planted in the Petri dish of my imagination, full of the nutrient medium from the medieval chronicle, the fleeting fear generated by these hooligan antics grew, swelled like a colony of yeast, and began to spill over the edge.” It will soon become obvious that the events discussed in the chronicle rhyme with those that are happening here and now. The world is on the verge of a catastrophe: floods, epidemics, earthquakes.

Based on the story by A. Chekhov. Directed by N. Grinshpun. Starring E. Tkachuk, V. Abashin, E. Labutina, A. Tulchinsky, P. Akimkin, E. Nikolaeva, M. Biork, R. Shalyapin We must go to the “Swedish Match” now - before the recent students of RATI, Oleg Kudryashov’s course, have grown up and matured. In a charming performance full of skit sketches, it is youth and studio enthusiasm that decide a lot.

Jazz improvisations on themes by Bach, Mozart, Paganini. Medley on themes by Parker, Ellington (arranged by Garanyan). Dunaevsky, Ellington, Bolling, Kosma Chamber Orchestra “Moscow Virtuosi”. Harlem Gospel Choir. Conductor Georgy Garanyan. Soloists: Borislav Strulev (vio loncel), Andrey Ivanov (double bass), Dmitry Sevastyanov (drums), Denis Matsuev (forte piano). Great Hall of the Conservatory, 19.00 Rachmaninov Young teachers of the piano department of the Moscow Conservatory.

(Une vieille maîtresse) Catherine Breillat. Starring Asia Argento, Roxanne Mesquida. France-Italy, 2007, dubbed A thorough adaptation of the novel by Barbet d'Aurevilly (1808-1889), which once shocked public morality, performed by the most scandalous French filmmaker, Catherine Breillat. Wick Club Mon 17 – Thu 20, Sat 22 – Mon 24, Wed 26 December

Balization and economics do not unify peoples; The war has never stopped and will never stop. This inconvenient truth depresses, suppresses, takes away energy; perhaps that is why the road between Berlin and Moscow is not teeming with foot travelers. European publications, Moscow, 2007, translation by N. Vavilina, A. Glukhov

“Mumm is one of the largest champagne brands. Recently they have made a huge breakthrough in quality. For a long time it was believed that they did not have champagne that could become top. In fact, it was, but it was just not advertised. Mumm took a different route, made the champagne less old, aged less than usual. In order for champagne to be considered vintage, it must be aged for at least 3 years. Mumm de Cramant is 100% Chardonnay.

An almost lost compatriot comes to conduct the Russian National Orchestra and young promising pianist Alexei Volodin. The program includes all the music for Ravel's ballet Daphnis and Chloe and Prokofiev's Third Concerto. Wed 19 December, 19.00

A disc that was released not by a record label, but by the Kommersant publishing house. Which was sold not in music stores, but in Euroset kiosks (or as a free supplement to Citizen K magazine). Whatever the singer recorded, no one has ever done this with domestic show business. The album, titled with the short “Thank you,” is an imposing, motley, peaceful and clearly not the best recording of Zemfira: at times she looks like Konstantin Nikolsky, but you can find even worse comparisons.

At the next Kremlin Cup, to everyone’s joy, the Russians won all the tournaments. In the women's singles, Elena Dementyeva beat Serena Williams, in the men's singles, Nikolay Davydenko defeated Paul-Henri Mathieu, and in the men's doubles, Marat Safin and Dmitry Tursunov beat Tomas Tsibulev and Lovro Zovko. Ole-ole-ole, or whatever they usually say.

Tennis player Serena Williams has been determined to regain the title of world number one since the beginning of the year. She defeated Nadya Petrova and Elena Jankovic, utterly defeated Maria Sharapova (twice), won the Grand Slam Cup and almost won the Kremlin Cup, losing as a result to Elena Dementieva. Williams had terrible luck all year, but number 5 in the world ranking at the end of the year is a good result, which forced the sports press to talk about the return of Serena Williams.

Questions: Konstantin Agunovich. Photos: Natalya Ganelina age 30 years old education Serov Art School in St. Petersburg, then entered arts and crafts at “Mukha” - I didn’t understand what it was. I began asking teachers how one thing could be considered decorative and another not; I didn’t understand again and didn’t try anymore - I gave up. After that he entered the University of the Arts in Berlin, where he studied with Georg Baselitz and Daniel Richter.