Once David Allen arrived in England, rented a room in the city of Lidden and two weeks later he played a jazz trio with a sixteen -year -old son of his lessor (his son was called Robert Wyatt). Once David Allen read poetry under the door of the Parisian club, and Terry Riley accompanied him with the help of a motorcycle engine - they were not allowed into the club, until even Baker was entrusted with a certain Baker.

They feed three times a day. In the morning to choose from: porridge or meat. Sandwich. Coffee, flakes and tea with lemon without restrictions. For lunch: salad, soup, second and compote. For those who wish - horseradish and Bavarian mustard. For dinner, too, a salad, hot, a bun and fruits. Ryazhenka or tea - without restrictions. The rooms are double. Very comfortable. In front of the rest house there are deer from cobbled garlands.

Residents of Kursk demand to stop the demolition of the house of Malevich © Radioaktive / Wikimedia Commons On the Internet there is an appeal of the inhabitants of Kursk, protesting against the demolition of the house in which Casimir Malevich lived more than a hundred years ago. Under the appeal addressed to the mayor, the chief architect and the head of the city culture department, more than 7,500 people put their signatures. "The historical center of Kursk is gradually" disappears.

The metropolitan theater of nations continues the season of Russian classics by the premiere of Gogol's “Marriage” with Ksenia Sobchak as a matchmaker Fekla Ivanovna. Dmitry Renansky talked with the director and artist of the performance by Philip Grigoryan. - “Marriage” was your idea or the proposal of the Theater of Nations? - We were negotiating about the staging of a new performance, and all the names that I proposed did not fit for one reason or another.

Moscow will host the world premiere of the opera Alexander Manotskov © Open University Skolkovo / Creative Commons Alexander Manotskov April 4 and 5, the Chamber Theater named after B.A. Pokrovsky will present the world premiere of the opera Alexander Manotskov “Tititi impeccable” in the production of director Vladimir Mirzoev. A young conductor, a student of Gennady Rozhdestvensky Ayrat Kashaev and artist Alexander Lisyansky (Israel) also work on the performance .

Participation in the premiere of Gogolevskaya “Marriage” at the Theater of Nations Ksenia Anatolyevna Sobchak, who played the episodic role of Swach Fekla Ivanovna, was pronounced by all conceivable and unthinkable media - “Couriers, couriers, couriers ... thirty -five thousand couriers!”. So the media work.

Blonde Redhead will first perform in Russia © Stereogum Today, March 17, the first Russian concert of the American rock band Blonde Redhead will be held in the club in Moscow. The group will go from Moscow to St. Petersburg, where on Wednesday, March 18, it will perform in the Cosmonaut club. Blonde Redhead was formed in 1993 in New York by Italians Simon and Amadeo Pace and the Japanese Casazo Makino and Maki Takahai.

Chernyakov set Parsifal in Berlin On March 28, the premiere of Wagner in the production of Dmitry Chernyakov and Daniel Barenboym will take place in the Berlin State Opera. This is their fourth joint Berlin project after Boris Godunov, Mussorgsky (2005), the “player” of Prokofiev (2008) and the “royal bride” of Rimsky-Korsakov (2013). In addition, for the Russian director Parsifal will be the first production of Wagner outside of Russia.

Applications are accepted to the new Beat Film Festival program On Monday, March 16, the BEAT FILM Festival Music Film Festival announced the recruitment of short films for the first program of the “Change” platform, created together with the Stereotactic agency. The program will be shown on the nearest Beat Film Festival , which will be held from May 28 to June 7. The rules for filing applications are given on the festival website , applications are accepted until April 27.

The youth competition of Tchaikovsky will come to Novosibirsk © Victor Dmitriev / X1.ru State concert hall named after A.M. Katsa International Youth Competition. P.I. Tchaikovsky will be held for the first time in Novosibirsk from December 5 to 16, 2015. This was announced today, March 17, at a press conference in Moscow, the General Director of the Association of Laureates of the Tchaikovsky International Competition, Andrei Shcherbak, reports the Russia-Culture television channel.

. . . The Russian Museum has opened the exhibition “Serov. Not portrait painter ” , whose curatorial concept is polemically declared in the name. Animalism and historical plots, landscapes, graphics and sketches for decorations - everything except portraits. Thinking about the phenomenon of Serov, such a different stylist and ephemeral master, Colta.ru turned to the expert community with questions: 1) What does Valentin Serov mean for your personal artistic experience?

A special project “School of the 90s” , launched by Colta.ru, the educational portal “Your History” and the “Lessons of the nineties”, is dedicated to the era of the 1990s in the context of Russian history. For the most important period in the latest history of Russia, we will look at the main signs of that time and its key events through the eyes of famous teachers of history and literature. Alexander Borisovich Dragler is a teacher of history and social studies of the Education Center No.

The Heritage Institute checks the performances of Bogomolov and Serebrennikov © Ekaterina Tsvetkova / Moscow Art Theater named after A.P. Chekhova Scene from the play "Karamazovs" Russian Research Institute of Cultural and Natural Heritage named after D.S. Likhacheva (heritage Institute) conducts an examination of the productions of directors Konstantin Bogomolov and Kirill Serebrennikov in order to find out whether the literary works are distinguished by their basis.

The Moscow School of Writing announces a competition for free places In the summer of 2015, Creative Writing School (CWS) will open in Moscow - a school of writing. Classes at the school will be held from July 6 to 17 in the library named after I.S. Turgenev. This is the first experience in adaptation Creative Writing (creative letter) - disciplines popular in the American and British education system.

The Public Chamber opposed the tax on the Internet © Public Chamber of the Russian Federation The Public Chamber of the Russian Federation (OP) issued a negative conclusion on the bill on the introduction of tax on the Internet - a global license for the unlimited use of works posted on the network.