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19:00 | Benko Dixieland Band (Hungary) |
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Benko Dixieland Band is one of the most popular jazz bands in Hungary as well as in the world. BDB is a top-ranking band with the first album ever to go gold. In 1971 the band became a prize-winner at the Jazz Festival in Montreux, in 1972 it was awarded with the Audience Prize in San Sebastian. UK's Music Week magazine voted BDB Stars of the Year in 1976. In the 1980s Benko Dixieland Band won America: in 1982 it won California Jazz Festival Grand Prix, in 1983 the same festival voted it International Jazz Orchestra of the Year. For fifty years BDB gave more than 10100 concerts visited by more than 9 million people. Benko Dixieland Band released 70 albums and toured Europe, USA and Far East where they were welcomed as jazz ambassadors of Hungary and New Orleans.
MMDM Svetlanov Hall  |
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The Stone Rose released just two albums but it proved to be enough to achieve cult status and enter all musical encyclopaedias as one of the most influential bands of the 1980-90s. Britain's New Musical Express magazine has recently published the Best Album Ever list topped by The Stone Roses' album of the same name leaving even such legends as The Beatles and Radiohead behind. After The Stone Rose's splitting up Ian Brown went on as a solo musician, released several brilliant records and New Musical Express magazine lately awarded him with the prestigious Godlike Genius Award. Read more
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19:00 | Schumann, Massenet, Gounod, Rossini |
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Elena Maximova (mezzo-soprano), Arsen Sogomonyan (baritone), Ekaterina Ganelina (piano) perform Schumann, Massenet, Gounod, Rossini.
Moscow Conservatoire Maly Zal |
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Yaroslavl Academic Orchestra performs Tchaikovsky's Overture "Romeo and Juliet", Concert No. 1 for piano and orchestra, Symphony No. 6 ("Pathetic"). Eduard Dyadyura conducts. Soloist – Yuri Rozum (piano).
Moscow Conservatory Great Hall |
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Marina Lapina (soprano), Valery Gerasimov (piano) perform Tchaikovsky's Romances.
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19:00 | The Brubeck Brothers Quartet (USA) |
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The Brubeck Brothers Quartet (USA), Symphony Orchestra "Novaya Rossia" perform famous jazz melodies. Alexander Sladkovsky conducts.
Tchaikovsky Concert Hall |
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