Music lovers in Ashgabat were immersed in a full Broadway experience during a performance held day before yesterday at the Mukamlar Palace of the State Cultural Center of Turkmenistan. The joint U.S.-Turkmen concert featured classics from such musicals as "Chicago," "Phantom of the Opera," and "Annie," among others. American artists Kate Bass and Aaron Young, artists from the National Symphony Orchestra of Turkmenistan conducted by Rasul Klychev, soloists from the Turkmen National Conservatory, and Youth Choirs from Mary and Lebap performed together on stage. Earlier, the cities of Mary and Turkmenabat hosted joint performances which attracted crowds across Turkmenistan.

The past thirty years have become a time of wasteful scattering of stones in our vast and once common expanses. How many names, traditions, schools have sunk into oblivion! The legacy is still being thoughtlessly scattered - look at the archive folders with scores discovered a few weeks ago in the Lenfilm trash heap...

A gala concert dedicated to the 30th anniversary of TURKSOY was held in Paris, at the headquarters of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO).

A solemn meeting was held at the Moscow House of Nationalities with the participation of Turkmen citizens living in Russia, as well as Turkmen students studying at Moscow universities. The meeting took place on December 12 and was dedicated to the 28th anniversary of Turkmenistan’s neutrality celebrated on this day.

The exhibition of decorative, applied and mosaic art of Turkmenistan and Iran is taking place in Mary on December 14-15. The exposition was organized in the regional Museum of Local Lore, and representatives of the Iranian Embassy and the Ministry of Culture of Turkmenistan visited its opening. The cultural event is attended by masters of folk crafts of the two countries, as well as musicians and singers who accompanied the opening day with national melodies.

On Tuesday, December 19, in the small hall of the special music boarding school at TNC. Maya Kuliyeva will host a solo concert by Honored Artist of Turkmenistan Vladimir Mkrtumov.

The founding conference of the Union of Cultural Capitals of the Turkic World is being held in Shusha on Sunday, December 10.

The Eurasian Film Award should be "powerful" from a financial point of view. The payout for the best film should be $1 million. Nikita Mikhalkov, chairman of the Union of Cinematographers of the Russian Federation, said this in response to a question from TASS, the Russian agency reports.

On December 11, in honor of the 28th anniversary of Turkmenistan’s neutrality, the exhibition “Bitaraplyk – bagtyň baky bahary” will be held in the exhibition hall of the Union of Artists of Turkmenistan in Ashgabat.

Reingold Moritsevich Gliere is a famous musician, Russian and Soviet composer, conductor, teacher, musical and public figure, who had a great influence on the formation of the professional composition school of Turkmenistan. So in 1935-1936 he was in Ashgabat and listened to young musicians here. On his recommendation, the most gifted of them, future composers and musicians: Ashir Kuliev, Veli Mukhadov, Khydyr Allanurov, Annagul Annakulieva, Maya Kulieva and others, were sent to study at the Turkmen department at the Moscow State Conservatory named after P.I. Tchaikovsky and received professional education.