At a concert in St. Petersburg, Elton John condemned homophobia In the Ice Palace in St. Petersburg, the English pop musician Elton John turned to the people who came to his concert with a speech in which he condemned homophobia in Russia. Elton John's appeal was published on his Facebook page. Having mentioned the recent demolition of the monument to the founder of Apple, Steve Jobs in connection with the camming out of the current head of the company, the musician asked: “Is this really true?

1. A few months ago, I was asked to write an article for the centenary of the First World War - and already during the letter I realized that the text is folding towards today, its complex, flawed self, and that there is nowhere to get away from this. No matter how you shy away from historical analogies and likening, recently you can’t get rid of them, and it seems that every new comparison is pushing the country to grow to a real disaster, hidden by the standards of the twentieth century.

Moscow will host a festival for children with disabilities From December 7 to 14, children's music school. R.M. Glier for the third time holds the festival “My Light - Music” for children with disabilities, including blind and visually impaired. In the Children's Subject to them. R.M. For 18 years, Glier has been studying children with disabilities, most of them are blind and visually impaired.

The recent resident of St. Petersburg, composer Boris Filanovsky, arrived in the city on the Neva to open the School of New Music in the Alexandrinsky Theater. Artem Melnik took the opportunity to talk with the former columnist OpenSpace, whose statements - already on Facebook - still cause nuclear discussions. - Two years ago, I was at your lectures in Krasnoyarsk, and you seemed to me gloomy, depressive and so on. Now look happy and blooming. What's happened?

11 Swiss composers/Alpenfest The fifth concert of the Russian-Swiss project Alpenfest will be held on November 11 in Moscow in the concert hall named after N.Ya. Moskovsky.

“Anti -Pirate” Internet tax will introduce in Russia First Deputy Prime Minister Igor Shuvalov instructed ministries to develop bills that implement the concept of centralized collection of money for using intellectual property objects on the Internet.

In Mariinka, they will perform a forgotten Soviet opera Antonio Spada -keta Today, November 11, the operator of the Soviet composer Antonio Spada -keta “boss” (1958) after more than half a century of oblivion will sound in the concert hall of the Mariinsky Theater. Soloists of the Academy of Young Opera Singers and the Symphony Orchestra of the Mariinsky Theater under the direction of Andrei Petrenko will take part in the concert performance by the Evota.

Goethe Institute will show the documentary cinema Germany From November 13 to 19, Goethe Institute in Moscow will hold Blick film festival for the second time. This year, the program has new documentaries from Germany.

At the very end of August, Muscovite Vladimir Maksakov went to the DPR on his own, for three weeks in Donetsk and returned to Moscow. That's what he survived there, saw and heard. Assembly point At the assembly point of the militias in Rostov-on-Don there is a boxing bag. The day may well begin with a battle with a shadow. Or from the reinforcement of the football. In the morning, the mandatory construction along the slightly noticeable faded green line on the asphalt.

Cinema Museum Employees: We stayed to keep the museum © Nikita Pavlov / "Session" Researchers of the State Central Museum of Cinema published a statement about the current situation. In it, they say that they did not change their opinion about the new director, but in order to preserve the museum they recalled applications for care at the request of its founder Naum Kleiman.

In his column, a music journalist and a musician with great experience, Andrei Bukharin (Rolling Stone) is reviewing the established opinions about famous musicians and musical cults. This time he touched the fundamental (on two columns) question - what is wrong with Russian music? Recently, more than once you have to hear questions: why, they say, we do not have new stars, why we do not hear real large Russian hits.

Nicole Virts: "Catalysts of changes in the urban environment" The lecture of the Swiss urbanist Nicole Virts “Catalyst Changes in the Urban Environment” will be held on November 11, 2014 at 19.00 in the Moscow Architectural School Marsh Swiss architects and engineers offer a project to transform former industrial zones. The catalyst for the further development of these “sleeping” sites/lands often become temporary structures for temporary use, which can be built in a short time.