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| | | | | In the Mirror Foyer 8 June’16 Wednesday 19:00 Tikhon Khrennikov: selected pieces Concert of the theatre's soloists Dedicated to the composer's birthday June 10, 1913 – August 14, 2007 The Novaya Opera presents a concert of the theatre’s soloists dedicated to the 103rdanniversary of the birth of Tikhon Khrennikov (1913–2007), a prominent Russian composer and a major public figure. Khrennikov’s music has been admired by several generations; the composer wrote a great number of pieces of different schools and genres ranging from classical music to pop tunes: operas, ballets, instrumental concerts, chamber and vocal music, songs and romances. However, it was his incidental music to drama performances and over thirty Soviet films that won him public love and fame. These include the musical comedies:/Love for Love/, A Chaperone and The Hussar Ballad, the children’s film/Got the point, Congratulations!/, the historical drama/The Captain’s Daughter/, the Much Ado about Nothing production after Shakespeare’s play, the comedies True Friends and They Met in Moscow to name a few. Says Mikhail Fikhtengolts: “Khrennikov’s music has the fervor of the mass song, Rachmaninoff’s freedom and Prokofiev’s sharp rhythms, but at the same time, there’s no eclecticism in it. Khrennikov is very different from his predecessors and contemporaries, with his rosy-cheek optimism of a citizen of the pacific and affluent country, which, during the 70 years, everybody read of but nobody ever visited”. (Izvestiya, 2001). Khrennikov’s music is a symbol of the Soviet Epoch, its dreams and history. In commemoration of the composer, the concert will include an array of his popular, as well as forgotten pieces.
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