The Kirillo-Belozersky Museum-Reserve will host the First Russian and Chinese Festival of Russian Song from June 11 to 14, 2015. The choir “International”, the Department of Culture in the Kirillov District Administration and the Vologda Regional Training School of Culture will become the partners of the event.
The motto of the festival has been already invented: “To sing Russian songs is in fashion!” The list of participants includes the choir “International” from Guangzhou, the choir of the Children’s Art School in Kirillov, the Cossack Ensemble “Silver Horseshoe”, the retro ensemble “Northern Frescoes”, the Folk Song Ensemble “Light Chamber”, the amateur group of teachers-veterans “How Young We Were”, the veterans’ ensemble “Golden Age”, Elena Antonova, Elena Vyazigina, Artyom Polkovnikov and others. They will perform with civil, folk and patriotic compositions and songs of the Great Patriotic War.
The festival has its own music directors both in Kirillov - Svetlana Zavarina (Honoured Art Worker of the RF, teacher of the Vologda Regional Training School of Culture) and Olga Chechanicheva (teacher of the Children’s Art School) and in Guangzhou – the top-ranking musician, artistic director and chief conductor of the choir “International”.
Temporary exhibitions about national cultures and traditions of two countries will be open in the museum during the festival. A gala concert will take place on the main stage on the Day of Russia celebrated on June 12.
The festival will be opened in several months, but the work in the creative groups is in full swing: the musicians are choosing the repertoire and are rehearsing a lot. You will be able to find information about every participant in the promotional reporter “World of the Museum”. The first material about the choir from Guangzhou has been already published.
According to the materials of
the promotional reporter “World of the Museum”,
Issue 4 (26) of 2014.
