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20:30 | Music for Harpsichord, Organ and Piano |
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The concert program "Parade of Keys" including compositions by Bach, Handel, Beethoven, Tchaikovsky, Gounod, Dickinson, Faure will be presented by Laureates of international competitions Anastasia Sidelnikova and Feodor Stroganov. Anastasiya Sidelnikova has ended the Moscow State Conservatory. Passed training on the master-classes of leading European teachers: H. Fagiusa (Denmark, Sweden), H. Fogelja (Germany), Z. Gijju (France), J. Laukvika (Norway) and others. The student of the All-Russia competition of organists, International organ festivals in Kaliningrad and Luebeck (Germany). In 1994 at the International festival in a of Calgary (Canada) has noted been as one of the best among organists of young generation. Her concert activity has begun in student's years. Feodor Stroganov studied harpsichord, organ and composition at the Tchaikovsky Conservatory. He continued his studies at the Paris Conservatory under the tutelage of Professor M. Chapuis. While a student he began an active performing life as an organist and harpsichord player. Mr Stroganov received many prizes in competitions as an organist as well as a composer. He teaches harpsichord and organ at the Tchaikovsky Conservatory in Moscow and frequently performs with the Ensemble of Ancient Music under the direction of T. Grindenko in Russia and abroad. The concert will be held with the candle lights.
Roman Catholic Cathedral of Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary  |
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Roxette is Marie Fredriksson and Per Gessle, and their game is pop. They entered the cosmic consciousness with The Look in 1989, followed up with the multiple-platinum album Joyride in 1991, and have been on top of the charts somewhere in the world ever since. The constant flow of hit singles and albums have resulted in staggering record sales (55 million albums and 20 million singles) and world tours too big to mention. For almost a decade Roxette was off the world music scene, mainly due to the vocalist's serious illness. But today things have changed radically - in the beginning of 2011 the Swedish band released a new album Charm School and set off on a large-scale tour. Roxette were one of the biggest global pop acts of the '90s, selling over 75 million records around the world and dominating the charts with songs like "The Look," "Listen to Your Heart," "Joyride," and "It Must Have Been Love," all four of which hit the top of the Billboard Hot 100. Hailing from Halmstad, Sweden, Roxette are a duo featuring vocalist Marie Fredriksson and songwriter, vocalist, and multi-instrumentalist Per Gessle. Fredriksson and Gessle first met in the late '70s, when she was a member of the pop combo Strul & Ma Mas Barn and he played with Gyllene Tider, one of Sweden's biggest groups of the late '70s and early '80s. As Roxette, they cut a single in 1986, "Neverending Love," which was a major hit in Sweden, and a number of songs Fredriksson and Gessle had earmarked for her third solo album became the basis of the first proper Roxette album, Pearls of Passion. In hopes of greater international success, Roxette wrote and recorded their material in English, but while Pearls of Passion was a hit at home, Capitol/EMI didn't bother to release the album in the United States. The same fate initially befell 1988's Look Sharp! until an American student studying in Sweden brought a copy of the album home to Minneapolis and persuaded a DJ at a local radio station to give "The Look" a spin. The song clicked with listeners, and soon Capitol rush-released Look Sharp! in the United States; both "The Look" and "It Must Have Been Love" went to number one on the singles charts, and the album went platinum, establishing Roxette in the States and kickstarting their career in Europe. Read more
Crocus City Hall |
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19:00 | Stanley Clarke (USA) |
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 Four-time Grammy winner Stanley Clarke is quite possibly the most celebrated acoustic and electric bassist in the world. As a performer, composer, conductor, arranger, recording artist, producer, and film scorer known for his ferocious dexterity and consummate musicality, Clarke is a true pioneer in jazz and of the bass itself. Unquestionably he is a "living legend," lauded with every conceivable award available to a musician in his over 40-year career as a bass virtuoso. Clarke's incredible proficiency has been rewarded with: four Grammys, gold and platinum records, Emmy nominations, an honorary Doctorate from Philadelphia's University of the Arts, and much more. He was Rolling Stone's very first Jazzman of the Year and bassist winner of Playboy's Music Award for ten straight years. Clarke was honored with Bass Player Magazine's Lifetime Achievement Award and is a member of Guitar Player Magazine's "Gallery of Greats". He was even given the key to the city of Philadelphia. Digging through the great multitude of accolades bestowed upon Stanley reveals an interesting phenomenon. It is difficult to remember how limited the potential career path of a bass player was before he came on the scene. Stanley almost single-handedly took the bass out of the shadows and brought it to the very front of the stage, literally and figuratively. The traditional role of the bass was largely one of time-keeping that sonically filled out the spectrum. Clarke says: "Before I came along a lot of bass players stood in the back. They were very quiet kind of guys who didn’t appear to write music. But many of those bass players were serious musicians. All that I did was just take the step and create my own band." Certainly there were great and celebrated bass players before Stanley like Ron Carter, Scott LaFaro, and the pioneering composer Charles Mingus. But Clarke became the first bassist in history to headline sold-out world tours and have gold albums. He was also the first to double on acoustic and electric bass with equal virtuosity, power, and fire. By the time he was 25 years old, he was already regarded as a pioneer in the jazz fusion movement. Clarke cites Mingus as a great influence personally and professionally. "The greatest moment in my life that changed me was having dinner with the great Charlie Mingus. He had the personality of a revolutionary that could have run a paramilitary group. He was very intense, heavy! That’s when I realized exactly what I wanted to do with the bass. I was going to approach my career completely like a revolutionary. Whatever was there, I was going to do the opposite." The rest, as they say, literally is history. Interestingly electric bass, for which Stanley is most renowned, is not his principal instrumental. His first passion, which carries to this day, is for the acoustic bass. "Electric bass is my secondary instrument. When I first started playing electric it was at parties and just for having fun. But I made records and got famous more as an electric bass player than as an acoustic bass player." In 1971, 20-year-old Stanley Clarke exploded into the jazz world, fresh out of the Philadelphia Academy of Music. Arriving in New York City, he immediately landed jobs with bandleaders such as Horace Silver, Art Blakey, Dexter Gordon, Joe Henderson, Pharaoh Saunders, Gil Evans, Stan Getz, and a budding young pianist-composer named Chick Corea. Stanley says: "My original goal was to be a classical bassist. I wanted to be one of the first black musicians in the Philadelphia orchestra. Chick Corea changed my mind about that." Clarke and Corea formed the wildly influential jazz fusion band Return to Forever, a showcase for each of the quartet’s strong musical personalities, composing prowess, and instrumental voices. They recorded eight albums, two of which are certified gold (Return to Forever and Romantic Warrior). They also won a Grammy (No Mystery) and received numerous nominations while touring incessantly. Clarke then fired the "shot heard round the world" that started the 1970s bass revolution and paved the way for all bassist/soloist/bandleaders to follow. In 1974, he released the eponymous Stanley Clarke album which featured the hit single, "Lopsy Lu". Two years later, he released School Days, an album whose title track is now a bona fide bass anthem, a must-learn for nearly every up-and-coming bassist, regardless of genre. Aspiring bassists must also master the percussive slap funk technique that Clarke pioneered as well. Sly and the Family Stone's Larry Graham first developed the rudimentary slap technique. Stanley took the idea and ran with it, adapting it to complex jazz harmonies. Always in search of new challenges, Clarke turned his boundless creative energy to film and television scoring in the mid-1980s. He is now an elite in-demand composer in Hollywood. Starting in television with an Emmy-nominated score for Pee Wee's Playhouse, he transitioned to the silver screen and now has over 65 credits to his name. As composer, orchestrator, conductor, and performer he has scored blockbuster films: Boyz 'N the Hood, What's Love Got To Do With It?, The Transporter, Romeo Must Die, Passenger 57, Poetic Justice, and The Five Heartbeats. He also scored the Michael Jackson video Remember the Time, directed by Jon Singleton. More recently he scored the 2013 box-office hit, Best Man Holliday. He has been nominated for three Emmys and won a BMI Award for Boyz 'N the Hood. In addition to his own band, Clarke has always enjoyed collaborating with other artists. Stanley teamed up with keyboardist George Duke in 1981 to form the Clarke/Duke Project. Together they scored a top 20 pop hit, "Sweet Baby", and recorded three albums. Stanley worked with George in various situations for over 40 years until George's untimely passing in 2013. Some of Stanley's other notable projects as band member or co-leader include: Jeff Beck, Keith Richards' New Barbarians, Animal Logic (with Stewart Copeland), Superband (with Larry Carlton, Billy Cobham, Najee, and Deron Johnson), Rite of Strings (with Jean-Luc Ponty and Al Di Meola), Vertu' (with Lenny White), Trio! (with Bela Fleck and Jean Luc Ponty), and SMV (with Marcus Miller and Victor Wooten). To this day Stanley Clarke remains as passionate about music as that young prodigy from Philadelphia with big dreams. His journey has already been epic and storied. Yet it is far from over. More info
MMDM Svetlanov Hall |
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21:00 | VivaCello Festival 2014: "Musica Viva" Chamber Orchestra |
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Performers: "Musica Viva" Chamber Orchestra conducted by Leonid Kazakov, David Oistrakh Quartet, Boris Andrianov (cello), Daniel Avstrikh (viola). The program includes the string sextet "Verklärte Nacht" by the Austrian composer Arnold Schoenberg and based on Richard Dehmel's poem of the same name and "Blitz", op. 52 (Fast Chess Game) by Richard Dubugnon qualified as "driven by a playful modern sensibility" by the New York Times. Both performance will be accompanied by video art installations: the first one was made by Kirill Ivanov, a poet, journalist, musician known also for his works in video art. As Richard Dubugnon's "Blitz" was dedicated to the most famous chess games in the history the orchestra performing this composition will includes 22 people as the chess pieces are on the chess-board. The concert will held as the part of the VivaCello Festival's program.
Multimedia Art Museum |
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