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Yuri Bashmet. “Viola is a violinist with a dark past”
Yuri Bashmet is a world-famous artist, an outstanding violist, conductor and teacher. “Kultura.RF” asked him about music lessons, motivation, favorite songs and the subtleties of the profession of a musician.
– Yuri Abramovich, tell us, please, when did you realize that you want to devote your whole life to music? For example, Pyotr Tchaikovsky shook his first trip to the opera – and then he realized his vocation. How was it with you? Continue reading
They were the first to play jazz.
The jazz was presented to the music world by a meeting of two cultures – European and African. At the international wave in the early 20s of the twentieth century musical direction broke into the Land of the Soviets. We recall the performers who were the first to play jazz in the USSR.
Valentin Parnach – pioneer of Soviet jazz Continue reading
Oleg Karavaichuk: sky taper
Director Sergei Lando shoots a documentary film “Sky Taper” at the Lendok film studio about one of the most mysterious musicians of our time, Oleg Karavaichuk. The author told the portal Kultura.RF about why Karavaichuk played in a pillowcase, how to find the truth in the myths about him and what will help him to understand his music. Continue reading