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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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19:00 | Lalo, Liszt-Buzoni, de Falla, Ravel |
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Symphony Orchestra "Novaya Rossia" performs Lalo's "Spanish Symphony" for violin and orchestra; Liszt-Buzoni’s "Spanish Rhapsody" for piano and orchestra; de Falla’s Symphonic version of "Nights in the Gardens of Spain" for piano and orchestra; Ravel’s Bolero. Alexander Sladkovsky conducts. Soloists - Nikita Borisoglebsky (violin), Ekaterina Mechetina (piano).
Moscow Conservatory Great Hall |
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19:00 | Moscow Chamber Male Choir "Peresvet" |
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Moscow Chamber Male Choir "Peresvet" in a concert timed to Defenders of the Fatherland Day. Vladislav Kosarev conducts.
Moscow Conservatoire Maly Zal |
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19:00 | Piazzolla, Rodrigo, Schnittke |
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