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| | Arts Calendar / January 4 / Concerts |
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| A New Year Tale for Hedgehog and Orchestra |
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 12:00, 16:00. Antique Cirque Independent Theater and Circus Company and Moscow Philharmonic Orchestra presents A New Year Tale for Hedgehog. Holiday music fantasy a la nouveau cirque based on Hedgehog and Bear stories by Sergei Kozlov. Circus Meets Orchestra. With no children of his own and not knowing his natural parents (in 1940 he was adopted from an orphanage) Sergey Kozlov grew up to become one of the best Russian fairytale writers ever. Despite his vocation, which became evident during his school years, Kozlov lived a quiet, almost solitary life and never desired fame; he didn’t even earn his living by writing alone. Although Kozlov’s stories are written as bedtime stories, to send children to sleep, they also keep parents wide awake and enchanted. Centred on the lives of various forest characters: Hedgehog, Little Bear, Hare, Squirrel and other animals endowed with human traits and distinct personalities, his fairytales have been translated into French, Japanese and several other languages. One of Sergey Kozlov’s tales, Hedgehog in the Fog, became famous worldwide after it was used as the basis for an acclaimed 1975 animated film of the same title by Soviet director Yuriy Norshteyn. Kozlov’s tales also furnished plots for cartoons such as In the Port and How Little Lion and Tortoise were Singing, whilst his nursery rhymes set to music gained vast popularity amongst children in the former USSR. Kozlov brings us back to our roots, and invites us to experience ourselves anew. In this respect, the fairytale has only just begun.
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