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 It started nearly five decades ago with a crack of thunder, a distant bell ringing and then that monstrous riff that shook the earth. The heaviest rock sound ever heard. In that moment Heavy Metal was born, created by a young band from Birmingham, England barely out of their teens. Now it Ends, the final tour by the greatest Metal Band of all time, Black Sabbath. Ozzy Osbourne, Tony Iommi and Geezer Butler close the final chapter in the final volume of the incredible Black Sabbath story. Black Sabbath's farewell tour, The End, begins on January 20, 2016 and it promises to surpass all previous tours with their most mesmerizing production ever. Black Sabbath is credited with creating heavy metal. The success of their first two albums - Black Sabbath and Paranoid - marked a paradigm shift in the world of rock. Not until Black Sabbath upended the music scene did the term “heavy metal” enter the popular vocabulary to describe the denser, more thunderous offshoot of rock over which they presided. With their riff-based songs, extreme volume, and dark, demonic subject matter, Black Sabbath embodied key aspects of the heavy-metal aesthetic. Yet in their own words, Black Sabbath saw themselves as a “heavy underground” band. That term denoted both the intensity of their music and the network of fans who found them long before critics and the music industry took notice. In a sense, though they’ve sold more than 75 million albums worldwide, they still are a heavy underground band. Although they became eligible for the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1995, they weren’t inducted until 2006. The truth is, they remain one of the most misunderstood bands in rock history.
Olimpiisky Sports Complex  |
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19:00 | German Romantic Violin Music |
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 Saint Petersburg Symphony Orchestra, Conductor & soloist – Sergey Stadler (violin) will perform music works for Orchestra and Violin of Beethoven, Wagner, Reger, R.Strauss, Schubert, Schumann and Mendelssohn. The history of the St. Petersburg Symphony Orchestra began in 1931 when a small ensemble was organized at Leningrad Radio. Shortly after that, the ensemble grew to the size of a symphony orchestra. The orchestra, performing in the live air format and collaborating with many conductors, called for constant reinvigoration of a program and acquired flexibility in its performing manner. During the World War II Siege of Leningrad, the orchestra of Leningrad Radio was the only symphony orchestra remaining in the blockaded city. In – August 1942, conducted by Karl Eliasberg, this orchestra played the historic Leningrad première of the Seventh Symphony by Shostakovich in the Philharmonia. Sergei Stadler began having piano lessons with his parents before studying the violin with Boris Sergeyev (a pupil of Polyarkin and thus a descendant of the Auer line) at the Leningrad Special Music School. There he met Mikhail Vaiman who exerted a powerful infl uence upon his development. Later he studied at the Leningrad Conservatory and in Moscow, taking instruction from two of the most important Soviet violinists of the time, David Oistrakh and Leonid Kogan. Stadler has performed extensively with the London Philharmonic, the Russian National Symphony, and the Dresden Staatskapelle Orchestras. He is founder, artistic director and chief conductor of the New St Petersburg Symphony Orchestra; as a conductor, he has given the first complete performances in Russia of Messiaen’s Turangalîla-Symphonie and Berlioz’s Les Troyens.
Tchaikovsky Concert Hall |
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