John Tavener died © Luth Contemporary Music Society Today, November 12, after a serious illness, British composer John Tavener died. It is reported by BBC . John Tavener was born in London in 1944, studied at the Royal Academy of Music. A work that attracted the public attention to the young composer was the Kit oratorio based on the book of the Prophet Jonah, which was performed in 1968 at its first concert, the London Symphony.

Alexandrinka-2 launches a music program © Kasper Vogelzang Since November 2013, on the new stage of the Alexandrinsky Theater in St. Petersburg, concerts of new academic music and interdisciplinary projects at the junction of music, theater and media will regularly take place.

Khodorkovsky was nominated to the "Golden Feat" The Novaya Gazeta team nominated Mikhail Khodorkovsky for the Golden Feather journalistic Prize. This was reported by the press center of Mikhail Khodorkovsky and Platon Lebedev. The editorial office explains his choice by the fact that Khodorkovsky during the competitive period (2012-2013), despite the difficulties associated with the transfer of materials from the colony, did not stop cooperation with the publication.

"Dialogs of manifestos" begin © Foundation "Hermitage XXI Century" The educational program of the Biennale of Modern Art “Manifesto 10” will open “Dialogues of Manifesto”. They will be held at different sites of St. Petersburg from November 2013 to June 2014. The program will be attended by curators, critics, theorists of contemporary art, artists - participants in Biennale, as well as a team of the international Manifesta Foundation. The first dialogue will take place on Friday, November 15 .

COLTA.RU continues the “Responsibility” heading: Dear people, people answer a question that has been ardently discussed in recent days. Last Sunday, the St. Petersburg shareholder Pyotr Pavlensky pinned himself behind the scrotum to the cobblestone of Red Square , which became the number one theme for discussion on Facebook.

The culmination of the “Dutch year” in Russia was the arrival of the Royal Orchestra Consetgebau - a team included in the upper world league and, according to some ratings - even its heads. We have not had Amsterdam's treasure since 1974, this year he marks 125 years old, and a grand anniversary tour (after St. Petersburg and Moscow - China, Japan and Australia) violates the usual, much more sedate schedule of the orchestra.

Prize "Living Legend" was awarded to Sergey Stratanovsky © Nikolai Simonovsky / vavilon.ru Today, November 12, in Moscow, at the opening of the VIII International Festival “Biennale of Poets”, the Living Legend literary prize was awarded. It was received by the St. Petersburg poet Sergey Stratanovsky. A graduate of the Faculty of Philology LSU, Sergey Straitanovsky (b.

Govorukhin urged to introduce state control over the media The head of the State Duma Committee on Culture Stanislav Govorukhin believes that the media law should be revised, in particular, to cancel the ban on state control of the media. “It is time to reconsider the law on the media, because it was made in the“ dashing ”90s. We have a democratic state, but ask people - are they satisfied with Russian television and newspapers?

Evgenia Volunkova: "The privileges of those who remained in Russia" The editor -in -chief of “such cases” on how to beat sour cream into oil, write about people, regardless of their mistakes, fight for the “deep” reader and work where it is very difficult, but necessary 12 July 2023 9259 Meeting on the sling (first three hours) The five -hour conversation of Elena Kovalskaya, Nadia Plungan, Yuri Saprykin and Alexander Ivanov about why today it is necessary to be in Russia.

A park project in Zaryadye was chosen The winner of the international competition for the landscape-architectural concept of the Zaryadye Park was the New York Bureau Diller Scofidio + Renfro. This was told today, on November 12, at a press conference on summing up the results of the competition, the chief architect of Moscow Sergey Kuznetsov, the website of the Moscow 24 television channel reports.

The image of the young composer, or rather, the young composer-academicist in the last decade has changed dramatically. Until this moment, young writers, whether it was avant-garde or neoconservatives, strictly followed the established laws of the closed world and with pop culture crossed the minimum (a rare outlet for the penetration of classics into pop culture was the film industry).

The curator of the Moscow Youth Biennale was appointed Today, November 12, the curator of the IV Moscow International Biennale of Young Art was announced, which will be held from June 26 to August 10, 2014. They became the British art critic David Elliot.

• The November "banner" is dedicated to the theme of "another USSR". In the poetic part itself there are poems by Olga Rodionova (Dashkevich) . In the archival section, Sergei Kalashnikov publishes unknown verses by Leonid Shevchenko .

In Moscow, a retrospective will take place agute rental © FSFF On Friday, November 15, at the Moscow Artistic Cinema at the Blick'13: New Cinema of Germany, a retrospective of the classic of German cinema lease agute will begin. At 18:00 in the Great Hall, his adventure film “Journey along the River with Kuritsa” ( Flußfahrt Mit Huhn , 1983/84) will be shown. After the session, a meeting with the director will take place. It was this film that made the lease of AGTE (b.