Why does music heal?
Almost everything that happens in nature is connected with the world of sounds. In any case, in wildlife. It can be considered proven that music affects us and you, and…

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MSTISLAV ROSTROPOVICH - CITIZEN OF THE WORLD
The greatest academic musician of the last century, Mstislav Rostropovich, not only had a unique performing talent, but was also a very principled person. He was not afraid to oppose…

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"DRUMMER" NIKOLAI GNATYUK
Hearing the name of this artist, most music lovers will immediately remember the famous “Smereka”, “Bird of Happiness” and “Raspberry Ringer”. Although some of the singer’s admirers prefer such hits…

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A BEAUTIFUL TALE WITH A DEEP MEANING IN THE SLEEPING BEAUTY BALLET

The tale of the French writer Charles Pierrot “Sleeping Beauty”, as it turned out, hides many secrets. At least, the creators of the ballet of the same name – composer Pyotr Tchaikovsky, choreographer Marius Petipa and director of the imperial theaters Ivan Vsevolozhsky, who became the author of libretto and costumes – filled the work with hidden meaning, elusive for a superficial look.

One thing is certain with confidence: the ballet Sleeping Beauty is far from a naive tale for children.

Political motives
The director of the imperial theaters, Prince Ivan Aleksandrovich Vsevolozhsky, gave the idea to put Sleeping Beauty. Former attaché at the Russian embassy in Paris, he adored everything French and actively supported the course of Tsar Alexander III towards the rapprochement of the two countries. Continue reading

TAMARA SINYAVSKAYA – OPERA QUEEN

Once Tamara Sinyavskaya admitted that she always loved difficult tasks, and fate generously endowed them with them throughout her creative life – each new opera party as a new peak requiring conquest. And such peaks are not enough for one mountain range.

Tamara Ilyinichna managed to make a dizzying career as an opera singer, earn recognition of connoisseurs of vocal skills around the world, forever write her name in the history of art, becoming a great soloist of the second half of the 20th century.

As a child, Tamara loved to go into the porches of old Moscow houses, where there was excellent acoustics, and arrange real concerts, listening to the sound of her voice. singer Tamara Sinyavskaya Especially she liked to imitate the famous Argentine singer Lolita Torres, whose fame was then booming throughout the world. Continue reading

KING RHYTHM-N-BLUES – PRINCE

The talented and mega-popular singer Prince has released hundreds of musical compositions and almost forty studio albums, 100 million copies of his records have been sold in the world. All this gave him a kind of creative freedom, he could afford unpredictable acts, shocking and eccentricity. And once he just wanted to change his stage name to a complex graphic symbol. He worked for hours in his home studio, and then, going to the thousands of fans on stage, enveloped them with his magic. At first he drove the audience into a frenzy, after which he forced him to listen carefully to the lyrical song. This was the secret of his popularity and magic, fueled by incredible performance.

Life for two
This virtuoso guitarist, multi-instrumentalist, composer and outrageous singer was called a real rebel and a true propagandist of freedom. He was born on June 7, 1958 in Minneapolis and was named Prince Rogers Nelson. Singer Prince His mother, an American of European descent, Matti Della, was a jazz singer. His father, African American John Lewis Nelson, was a pianist and composer. Continue reading

THE BEATLES - PHENOMENAL FOUR
Surely there is not a single person in the civilized world who has ever heard of The Beatles. The phenomenon of this four is still trying to unravel music historians,…

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GENNADY CHRISTMAS - AT THE SERVICE AT MUSIC
Among the outstanding conductors there is a man who is called the pride of the world performing art - this is Gennady Rozhdestvensky. A legendary person, through the bends of…

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DMITRY SHOSTAKOVICH: “LIFE IS BEAUTIFUL!”
The true scale of the composer Dmitry Shostakovich, widely known not only in Russia but also beyond its borders, can only be defined with the words “great, talented”. The more…

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