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20:00 | Lenny Kravitz (USA) |
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Lenny Kravitz is an American singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, record producer, actor and arranger, whose "retro" style incorporates elements of rock, soul, R&B, funk, reggae, hard rock, psychedelic, folk and ballads. In addition to singing lead and backing vocals, Kravitz often plays all the guitar, bass, drums, keyboards and percussion himself when recording. He is known for his elaborate stage performances and music videos. He won the Grammy Award for "Best Male Rock Vocal Performance" four years in a row from 1999 to 2002, breaking the record for most losses in that category and most consecutive wins in one category for a male. He has been nominated for and won other awards, including American Music Awards, MTV Video Music Awards, Radio Music Awards, BRIT Awards. On December 2011, Kravitz was made an Officer of the Order of Arts and Letters at a ceremony in Paris. Kravitz's albums regularly chart in upper reaches of the country's top 100, his latest album peaking at number seven - much higher than it managed in either the US or UK. Called Black and White America, the record tackles inter-racial issues - in particular those faced by his black mother and white father in 1960s New York. Lenny Kravitz's concert in Moscow will open the European part of his world tour in support of the musician's tenth album Strut (2014). The three-years-in-the-making album was was released through his own Roxie Records imprint. He has signed a worldwide agreement with Kobalt Label Services to release and promote the album. Read more
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19:00 | Russian Philharmonic: Insane Dances |
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Performers: Moscow City Symphony - Russian Philharmonic, Honoured Artist of Russia Larisa Kostyuk (mezzo-soprano). Conducted by Andris Poga (Latvia). In program: A. Borodin. Polovetsian Dances from opera "Prince Igor"; I. Stravinsky. Infernal Dance of All Kastchei's Subjects from ballet "The Firebird"; I. Stravinsky. Ritual of Abduction from ballet "The Rite of Spring"; S. Prokofiev. Death of Tybalt from ballet "Romeo and Juliet"; A. Khachaturian. Sabre Dance and Lezginka from ballet "Gayane"; M. Glinka. March of Chernomor from opera "Ruslan and Lyudmila"; V. Monti. Csardas; J. Strauss. Rosalinda's Csardas from operetta "Die Fledermaus"; C. Saint-Saens. Danse Macabre; J. Bizet. Habanera and Seguidilla from opera "Carmen"; L. Bernstein. Mambo from musical "The Westside Story"; M. de Falla. Ritual Fire Dance from ballet "Love the Magician"; A. Khachaturian. Adagio from ballet "Spartacus". Dances between heaven and earth, dances of passion, love and hatred, pain and despair, dance as struggle, dance as death, dance as revival, magnificence of the East and burning rhythms of Latin America, ritual ceremonies of ancient Slavs and fiery Polovetsian Dances. Uncommon variety of different music styles and countries are united by the dance element. The most vivid hits which are inseparably connected with dances of different epochs and peoples will be performed in the concert. Everybody will hear his favourite music fragment - Sabre Dance, March of Chernomor, Mambo from The Westside Story, Habanera and Seguidilla opera Carmen and many other remarkable music pieces. Andris Poga graduated in conducting from the Jazeps Vitols Latvian Academy of Music in 2007. From 2004 to 2005 he was taught conducting by Uros Lajovic at the Vienna University of Music and Performing Arts and also studied philosophy at the University of Latvia. While still a student, he took part in the master classes of conductors including Mariss Jansons, Seiji Ozawa and Leif Segerstam. Andris Poga won the Latvia Great Music Award in 2007, he is also awarded with the First Prize of the Evgeny Svetlanov International Conducting Competition in Montpellier 2010. "The Jury of the Svetlanov Competition recognised pure musical qualities devoid of showmanship, and a sensitive, thoughtful approach to music." Since then, he conducted many orchestras such as: New Japan Philharmonic, Latvian National Symphony Orchestra, Israel Symphony Orchestra, Orchestre National de Bordeaux, Sendai Philharmonic, Kyoto Symphony Orchestra, Orchestre National de Montpellier, Orchestre Philharmonique de Strasbourg. Since 2011 Andris Poga is the assistant conductor of Paavo Järvi at the Orchestre de Paris and has just been nominated assistant conductor of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, starting 2012/13 season.
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20:00 | Sixth June (Germany) |
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 Sixth June is the electro pop duo of Lidija Andonov, a Belgrade-born and Berlin-based actress and singer, and Germany illustrator, poster designer, short film and music video director, musician Laslo Antal. The group formed during 2008 in Belgrade and are currently based in Berlin. Their first official release Everytime came out in March 2010 for the German label Genetic Music/No Emb Blanc. Since then, the band has been playing gigs in Germany, Belgium, Croatia, Serbia. The duo have also performed at B.I.M. fest in Antwerp, and Exit festival Novi Sad. Sixth June's video "Oh No It's Burning" was selected and projected as part Berlin Music Week 2010. Their next release Back for a Day was out in May 2011 via their label Mannequin. In last year Sixth June released a mini album Pleasure and had appearance at Nuit Fantastique in Brussels. After Berghain concert in 2014 the Berliner Zeitung characterizes there as "sweet, cool, dark elektropop" remembering to Propaganda or Depeche Mode. Sixth June's band name has no concrete reference to June 6 in history. Their music were strongly influenced by some 1980s Dark culture bands and their albums, like Seventeen Seconds (The Cure, 1980), Music for the Masses (Depeche Mode, 1987), Dead Can Dance (1984), Mask (Bauhaus, 1981), Nada! (Death in June, 1985), Closer (Joy Division, 1980). Formative is Lidija Andonov's warm melancholic voice. Fault Magazine asked Sixth June about their plans and they aswered: "We are hoping also to play more, because playing live is something that we enjoy the most…Waiting to have a Sixth June tour soon. We are ready!" And you are ready, aren't you? More info
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