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AUDIO-VISUALEXPERIMENTSPlums Fest 6 p. 06

FAMOUS FRENCH TENORConcert Roberto Alagna p. 24

ORGAN, SAXOPHONE &

DUDUKfrom Bach

to jazzp. 22

MAMMA MIA!Italian Week

Festivalp. 10

MAURITIUSOcean of colours

p. 17

TOP5 BEST ITALIAN RESTAURANTS IN MOSCOW

Dear Friends!

This weekend will be terrific! Especially if you are interested in Italian Culture.

The Moscow Digest this week will present events from following sections:

Festivals and Markets, Exhibitions and Music!

Italy is an amazing country, this week you can enjoy an Italian Week Festival, an Italian Movies Festival, out TOP5 selection of Best Italian Restaurants in Moscow in addition

to a terrific concert of Italian Music.

The Festivals selection this weekend is fantastic, visit the last days of Plum festival of audio-visual experiments and

for the creative readers - a festival dedicated to embroidery, knitting and beading.

Expo selection is bound to present interesting things, find there an exhibition consecrated to the Great Russian Poet Mikhail Lermontov. A quite special exhibition about the film serie “The Big Bang Theory”. Catch the last days of the street exhibition about the beautiful Island lost in the Indian

Ocean.

Music selection is bigger than usual, find beautiful music in Moscow’s cathedrals - discover the Armenian Duduk and a

concert dedicated to the Organ. For the finale, find the fantastic concert of the Famous

opera singer Roberto Alagna.

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Contents:

Festivals in Moscow

06 u Plums Fest 6 (Last Days)08 u Creative Festival 2014 (Last Days)09 u Russia-Italia Film Festival (Last Days)10 u Italian Week festival11 u TOP5 Best Italian Restaurants in Moscow

Expos in Moscow

13 u Lyudmila Konstantinova and George Ostretsov “Calico revolution”14 u Exhibition dedicated to the Great Russian Poet Lermontov anniversary16 u Russian avant-garde. Dialogue across the centuries (Last days)17 u Street exhibition “Mauritius - Ocean of colours” (Last Days)18 u The exhibition of art works based on “The Big Bang Theory» (Last Days)

Music

20 u Knighting of the St. Cecilia21 u Journey to the Organ country22 u Organ, saxophone and duduk - from Bach to jazz24 u Concert Roberto Alagna

Moscow Weather

November, 22nd -7 -1

Sunny/Cloudy

source: gismeteo.ru

Cover: Russian avant-garde. Dialogue across the centuries (see p. 16 )

November, 23rd -9 -2

Cloudy/Snow

Festivals in Moscow

This weekend the festival sec-tion will present an amazing set of events linked with the Italian Culture and a special

selection of Italian Restaurants in Moscow.

More that that, you may find info about the Plums Festival of audio-visual experiments and a warm exhibition just on time with a show about knit-ting (with hand-made goods

market).

Plums Fest 6 (Last Days)

From the 18th November at the Museum of Moscow will take place the 6th Interna-tional Festival of audio-visual experiments Plums Fest.

This year’s festival highlights clearly define genre trends in the broad field of au-dio-visual art.Important point of contact of art and technology with the audience and the nature - how is the appeal to the consciousness of the view-er.

Plums Fest offers to the au-dience the game, critical di-alogue, in which everyone can take its own decision - that can be taken as a ma-terial for the long reflection, but that would be a bright flash of emotion in a particu-lar moment of perception of performance or installation.

The program of the Plums Fest.

November 22 – will be a very busy day.

Day of master classes, Playtronica for adults and evening program of perfor-mances and PlumsForma-tion party includes works by artists from different coun-tries:

Herman Kolgen (Canada), performance Seismik;Bit-Tuner (Switzerland) + Suffix Vjs (Switzerland);Anton Maskeliade / live /;Mujuice / live /;Interchain (ex stoned boys) / live /;Marat Hussein;vj Taras Gesh;vj RyBy;vj Struttura;Light performance.

Let’s PLUMS!

Until November 22ndEntrance fee: 100- 500RUBwww.plumsfest.ru

Museum Of Moscow2, Zubovsky Boulevard,m. Park Kultury

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The festival harvests the most interest-ing and cutting-edge projects in the form of new media art in-stallations, a/v per-formance, live vid-eo performance and electronic music. We also organise work-shops, lectures and educational events.

Plums Fest is a one of the pioneer events of its kind in Moscow, it was founded in 2008 and it used to happen as an official part of the Moscow Muse-ums’ Night.

PLUMS fest means a platform, community and a festival of fun and discoveries in the field of audio-visual, interdisciplinary and multimedia arts. PLUMS fest is explor-ing and bringing to the broad public different kinds of new art ex-periments, which are appearing in the field of intersection be-tween technologies, art, curiosity and mu-sic.


Creative Festival 2014(Last Days)

From November 21st in Moscow Design Centre «Artplay» will take place an international festival Crea-tive Festival 2014 - dedicat-ed to embroidery, knitting and beading.

For the first time in Rus-sia under one roof will fea-ture three unique project dedicated to knitting, em-broidery and beading in all possible forms and shapes - from the traditional to the most modern.

All this and more awaits you at the festival Creative Fes-tival 2014.

Join the hand made world of beauty!

Until November 23rdEntrance fee: 100- 200RUBwww.creativefestival.ru

Design Center Art-Play10, N. Syromyatnicheskaya str.m. Tchkalovskaya

Exclusive format of the fes-tival includes both extensive creative program and the sale of goods to these pop-ular types of needlework from renowned manufac-turers. This will allow guests not only to get acquainted with the amazing beauty of the works, but also to buy everything you need to im-plement your own ideas.

Special places are allocated to the fair copyright works. In the days of the festival is scheduled debriefing starts competition for the best embroidery works and the most original knitwear.

Also find Fashion defile from famous Russian and foreign fashion designers.

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Russia-Italia Film Festival (Last Days)

This week will take place a grandiose event for Italian cinema lovers – the festival of short and documentary films Russia-Italia Film Festival.

The film festival is held in order to strengthen cultural ties between Italy and Russia.

The program includes out-standing movies by the most talented Italian directors.

In addition, the “Fakel” cine-ma will show a film by Rus-sian filmmakers that made a film about Italy.

At the Russia-Italia Film Fes-tival will be presented Italian documentaries and short films from the best Italian filmmakers.

Each film screening will be followed by meetings and thematic lectures with the creators.

Until November 23rdStart: 7.30pmTickets: 300 -400RUBwww.riff-russia.ru

Fakel Cinema15/16 Shosse Entuziastovm. Aviamotornaya

Italian Week FestivalGuests of the Italian festival will have the possibility to visit tastings of Italian food and wines, workshops and exciting activities for kids.

Italian Week is held with the assistance of the network Lavazza Espression and most of the events will take place in coffee houses, lo-cated at

31, Prospekt Mira (m. Prospekt Mira) & 25, Pokrovka str. (M. Chistie Prudy).

Wine tasting and the dinner menu which included gour-met Italian cuisine, will avail-able at restaurants Casa del Vino &”wine market.

All the subtleties of cooking real italian pasta and other delicacies will tell master classes of culinary arts.

Winx Club organizes chil-dren’s party where young guests will have a manicure and aqua-grim, teach them to create Sireniks wings and fairy godmother Flora will help kids to create a puz-zles.

November, 22ndLAVAZZA ESPRESSION, 31, Prospekt Mira, m.Prospekt Mira4pm: Italian for little ones. Game-lesson for children from 5 to 8 years. Language Russian / Italian. The event is supported by the Italian Cultural Centre (www.cen-tro-italiano.ru).

LAVAZZA ESPRESSION,25, Pokrovka str.M. Chistie Prudy11am: Children’s club Winx2.30pm: dessert of fresh Italian cheese with cheese support from UNAGRANDE4pm: culinary master class from chef Mario Roberto Fortunato Maria Rizzo9pm: Film screening. Watching movies in Italian in a good atmosphere.

Sunday, November, 23rdLAVAZZA ESPRESSION25, Pokrovka str.m. Chistie Prudy11am: Children’s cooking class4pm: Favourite meal of Roberto Bruno9pm: Film screening. Watching movies in Italian in a good atmosphere.

Until November 30th(Stay tuned, next week we will continue to talk about this tasty festival)www.italianweek.ru


TOP5 Best Italian Restau-rants in MoscowIf you are a real gourmet, in Moscow you will find restaurants for all tastes! This week Moscow is so Italian, we decided to offer you a list of the best Italian Restaurants in Moscow as we know them! Enjoy the selection!

Restaurant Rybny Bazar (Рыбный базар )Italian cuisineAverage check: more than 3000RUB10/2, Trekhprudny Pereulokm. Mayakovskayawww.rbazar.ru

Restaurant & Bar BarLotti Italian, European, Auteur cuisinesAverage check: 1500 – 2000RUB2, Petrovka str.m. Lubyankawww.barlotti-moscow.ru

Restaurant La Panorama Italian cuisine Average check: 2000 – 3000RUB47A, Sevastopolsky Pros-pektm. Profsouznayawww.lapanorama.ru

Prices and info: menu.ru

Restaurant Don Ivan (Дон Иван)Italian, European, Russian CuisinesAverage check: 1000- 1500RUB10, Yaroslavskoe Shosse,m. VDNKHwww.don-ivan.ru

Restaurant La Provincia Italian cuisineAverage check: 2000 – 3000RUB1, Kaluzhskaya Square, bld.2m. Oktyabrskayawww.laprovincia.ru


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Expos in Moscow

Hurry Up! Most part of the exhibitions are held this week-

end for the last time!

Find interesting exhibition about Russian Avanade and

the Calico Revolution.

For the Russian Literature Fans and exhibition about

Mikhail Lermontov. And for fans of TV shows –

“The Big Bang Theory” Exhibition.

And catch the last days of the street exhibition neat m.

Tsvetnoy Boulevard.


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Calico revolutionBright cotton - a special ma-terial for the Soviet people, which in certain years of the Soviet Union were dressed absolutely everything: from an ordinary factory worker wife to the General Secre-tary.

For the artist Ludmila Kon-stantinova cotton becomes a creative metaphor with which the author draws the viewer to the collective im-age of Soviet women.

Center for Contemporary Art “Winezavod”1, 4th Syromyatnicheskiy Perulok, bld.6m. Kurskaya, m. Chkalovskayawww.winzavod.ru

Image over the fabric hero-ine Konstantinova - unfor-tunate victims of systems, the erased once all facets of personality.

The second participant of the exhibition - George Os-trecov. He also refers to the calico as a creative material. But his characters - strong women with dignity cope with everyday difficulties and family problems. Calico clothing in the interpretation Ostretsov becomes a kind of vestments for the Soviet superheroes.

Until December 14th Entrance fee: free

Great Rus-sian Poet LermontovThe 2014 year is a signifi-cant date for fans of Russian literature.

October 15th marks the 200th anniversary of the birth of Mikhail Lermontov. Lermontov is considered one of the most talented poets of the Golden Age of Russian literature.

The largest archives and lit-erary community in Moscow prepared in honour of this event the largest in the his-tory of Russian project

“My house is everywhere where there the vault of heaven ...”.

The Pushkin State Museum will host the project, which will bring together lovers of the Great Russian literature.

Organizers of the project to create an exposition of the portraits and drawings of the poet and exclusive things.

Exhibition Hall of The Pushkin State Museum12/2, Prechistenka str.m. Kropotkinskayawww.pushkinmuseum.ru


Sail

A lone white sail shows for an instantWhere gleams the sea, an azure streak?What left it in its homeland distant?In alien parts what does it seek?The billow play, the mast bends creaking,The wind, impatient, moans and sighs...It is not joy that it is seeking,Nor is it happiness it flies.

The blue wave dance, they dance and tremble,The sun’s bright ray caresses the seas.And yet for storm it begs, the rebel,As if in storm lurked calm and peace!..Translated by I.Zheleznova



Russian avant-garde. Dialogue across the centuries (Last days)

Creative artists Ksana Crohn’s and Amir Timer-galeev shared a century. But common artistic outlook and creative guidance combine two avant-garde artists.

match them up and ask yourself the question:

Has anything changed fun-damentally over the past century in the avant-garde art?

Until November 22thCentral House of Artists10, Krimsky Val atr.m. Oktyabrskaya www.cha.ru

Norwegian Xan Krohn from 1905 to 1917 lived in Russia. He first studied at the Acad-emy of Fine Arts, and then married a Russian woman who helped him to enter into the circle of Russian avant-garde Artists.

Amir Timergaleyev - mod-ern Moscow painter, who inherited and reflected in his work some characteristics of Russian avant-garde.

Break with the classical school of painting, the desire to experiment and search for new forms - these are the features of avant-garde movements.

The exhibition displays works Ksana Crohn’s and Amir Timergaleev,


Mauritius - Ocean of colours(Last Days)

Photo of the paradise island lost in the Indian Ocean.

Idyll white beaches, coral reefs, exciting seascapes, bright palette of entertain-ment and attractions.

The mild climate throughout the year, friendly locals, the original Creole cuisine, the national dance of Sega

Open-air exhibition takes place on the Tsvetnoy Boule-vard, near the Nikulin Circus. Its organizers - the publica-tion National Geographic Traveler and management of tourism in Mauritius.

Tsvetnoy Boulevard, near the Nikulin Circus Until November 22nd

- a unique island of Mauri-tius attracts many travellers.

The exhibition includes thir-ty-two images taken by photographer Kirill Umrikhi-na: in these blessed places he watched the giant waves that attract surfers from around the world, diving with dolphins, whale watch-ing and enjoying the pleas-ures of a beach holiday.

In the photos we can see the mountain of Le Morne, waterfalls Rochester, the island’s capital - the city of Port Louis, and Seven Coloured Earths Shamre-lya main wealth - the Indian Ocean.


Big Bang Theory(Last days)

From November 18th the Moscow fans of “Big Bang Theory” will meet with your favourite characters!

Leonard, Howard, Raj, Pen-ny, Bernadette and Amy - these heroes of the pop-ular series can be seen in the paintings of famous art-ists on the exhibition of art works based on the “Big Bang Theory”.

Of course, all this could not be a source of inspiration for artists from around the world whose work now and can be seen in Moscow. In-expressible seemingly style of the series perfectly fits into the world through the prism of perception of pic-tures of artists.

Until November 23Entrance fee: 100 – 200RUB +12

Solianka Gallery1/2, Solyanka str.m. Kitay Gorod (Entrance from Zabelina str.)www.solyanka.org


It is unlikely now you can meet someone who did not watch any of the popular television series about the history of the great physicist and their pretty neighbour. Friends involved knowl-edge of fundamentals of the world, often very naive in all that relates to everyday life, and in particular - with the opposite sex.

Plot outline seems trivial, but it is only a background for humorous dialogues, difficult situations, amazing scientific facts and lively cocktail of love, friendship and physics.


Music in Moscow

This weekend in many Cathe-dral in Moscow will take place pre-Christmas Concerts,

classical music and Jazz.

Find there the sound of the Armenian instrument – The Duduk, amazing concert dedicated to the Organ, con-cert of Italian music for the St. Cicilia – the saint of all the

musicians.

Don’t miss the concert of a unique opera voice – the fa-mous opera singer Roberto

Alagna.


Knighting of the St. Cecilia Since ancient times, it is believed that Saint Cecilia patron church musicians. According to the legend, she continued to sing devo-tional songs even when the executioner led her to death. Once through this resident of Rome 400 of its inhabit-ants turned to the Christian faith.

To this day, on the pictures Saint Cecilia is next to a keyboard or violin. On this day, after almost two thou-sand years since the death of the heroic martyr, a tribute to the holy church will pay homage together artists of Italy and Russia.

Acquaint the audience with a layer of wonderful music of Italy. Among the authors whose works will be per-formed this evening - Nino Rota, introduces viewers to the music for the motion picture Federiko Fellini.

Played by organist Giovan-ni Acciano Professor Mi-lan Conservatory named Dzhuzeppe Verdi, and the Russian Academic Choir EX ORIENTE LUH running Andrew Kaplanov audience will hear the music of Rota, Galliera, Donini, Dobitschen and Refiche.

Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception27/13, M. Gruzinskaya str.m. Krasnopresnenskaya, m. 1905 Goda, m. Belaruskayawww.catedra.ru

November 22ndStart: 8.30pmTickets: 650- 750RUB+6


Journey to the Organ countryThe Organ is a fantastic tool richness of timbre, the scale is enormous and even alone it sounds like an orchestra.

But when under the arch-es of the cathedral plays Svetlana Stepchenko violist, from the Organ no questions arise.

After all, a beautiful and original singing her instru-ment akin to singing in the best traditions of Italian vo-cal human voice.

Program: H. Purcell, JS Bach, T. Albinoni, GF Han-del.

SaturdayNovember 22ndStart: 4 pmTickets: 300-600 RUB

Cathedral of Saints Peter and Paul7, Starosadsky Pereulok,m. Kitay Gorodwww.lutherancathedral.ru

Trembling under the gentle touch of the bow, the string makes the listener with bat-ed breath to listen to the amazing sounds.

Light virtuosity, combined with the brightest emotional and extraordinary charm - create artistic phenomenon puzzles. And I want to solve this puzzle again and again.

Especially when it is a mira-cle takes place in the amaz-ing acoustics - the sounds of the organ.

Performed by Honored Art-ist of Russia, soloist of the orchestra “Moscow Virtuosi” Svetlana Stepchenko (viola), Nikolay Grigorov (organ).


Organ, saxophone and duduk - from Bach to jazzMajestic historic organ “Sau-er” will ring in a duet with the Armenian duduk and sensu-al saxophone, conquering the hearts of listeners.

Best Russian musicians in this concert will perform a unique program consisting of both favourite works of classical heritage, as well as jazz masterpieces.

Organ, saxophone and duduk. Three mega-stars, the reigning musical Olym-pus. And it is strange that so far they almost never met to-gether. But the result of this meeting is amazing - in one place, at one and the same time is not just going to the three instruments, and three era! Baroque era, the era of jazz and a fantastic folk tra-dition.

The majestic historical Zau-erovsky body merge in the ensemble of the Armenian duduk, shaded sultry sax-ophone timbre. A classical masterpieces make room

flowing into the concert jazz and bottomless depths of folk melodies.

Artists:

Anastasia Sidelnikova - the Organ;Mikhail Antonov - saxophone;Papin Shakhbazian - duduk;Ivan Ipatov - piano.

November 22ndStart: 7pmTickets: 600- 1200RUB

Cathedral of Saints Peter and Paul7, Starosadskiy Pereulokm. Kitay Gorodwww.lutherancathedral.ru


The DudukThe duduk (or doo-dook), is a woodwind instrument indigenous to Armenia. Unlike other double reed instruments, such as the oboe or shawm, the duduk has a very large reed in proportion to its size.

The unflattened reed and completely cylindri-cal (not conical) body of the instrument produce a sound closer to that of a clarinet or saxophone than to more commonly known double-reeds.

UNESCO proclaimed the Armenian duduk and its music as a Mas-terpiece of the Intangi-ble Heritage of Humani-ty in 2005 and inscribed it in 2008.

The duduk music has used in a number of American and others films, most notably in Gladiator.

Variations of it exist in Eastern Europe, the Middle East and Central Asia, including the bal-aban in Azerbaijan and Iran.

Armenian musicologists cite evidence of the duduk’s use as early as 1200 BC, though Western scholars suggest it is 1,500 years old.

The history of the Armeni-an duduk music is dated to the reign of the Armenian king Tigran the Great, who reigned from 95–55 B.C.


Concert Roberto AlagnaThe creative life of the fa-mous French tenor could be the plot for a novel. Rober-to Alagna was born in the suburbs of Paris in a Sicil-ian family, where everyone, without exception, sang, and Roberto was consid-ered not the most gifted.

For several years he sang at night in the Parisian caba-ret, although in his heart re-mained an avid fan of opera. A watershed event in the life of Roberto Alagna was a meeting with his idol and Luciano Pavarotti.The world heard the voice of the Italian tenor, which you can only dream of. Roberto Alagna has been invited to perform the part of Alfred in “La Traviata” at the Glynde-bourne Festival, and then - at La Scala under Riccardo Muti. Leading opera hous-es of the world, from New York to Vienna and London, opened the doors to the singer.

For 30-year career, Roberto Alagna has performed more than 60 parties - from Al-fred, Manrico and Nemorino to Calaf, Radames, Othel-lo, Rudolph, Don Jose and Werther. Particularly note-worthy is the role of Romeo, for which he won a Laurence Olivier theater

award, rarely awarded opera singers.

Roberto Alagna has record-ed an extensive operatic repertoire, some of his CDs have received the status of gold, platinum and double platinum. Singer won nu-merous awards, including the prestigious “Grammy”.

In an interview, Roberto Ala-gna admits: “When I start-ed, then assured his mother that it was a maximum of five years, and had passed God knows how! I just sing from the heart. The most important thing in life - to be happy, then everything, everything fails. We must live for today. After all, what is happening at the moment is unique. “Of course, one of those unique moments will be forthcoming perfor-mance Roberto Alagna. Do not miss the chance to en-joy one of the most beautiful opera voices!

Russian National OrchestraArtistic director - Mikhail Pletnev. Conductor - Arkady Berin, soprano - Catherine Shcherbachenko.

November 22ndStart: 6pmTickets: 5000 - 50000 rubles6+

Barvikha Concert Hall114, Rublevo- Uspenskoe Shosse, m. Molodezhnaya www.barvikhaconcerthall.ru

In an interview, Roberto Alagna ad-mits:

“When I started, then assured his mother that it was a maximum of five years, and had passed God knows how! I just sing from the heart. The most impor-tant thing in life - to be happy, then everything, everything fails. We must live for today. After all, what is happen-ing at the mo-ment is unique.”

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