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...
The Moscow International Art Festival «Sounds of Dutar» named after Nury Halmamedov was held in the Russian capital for the seventh time, having completed its marathon last week. The project is unique in itself: to combine national classics with new creative hiccups of composers, young and novice performers with experienced musicians and mentors, musicologists – with a live audience. The current edition of the festival has shown that the project is in demand, saturated with growth points and carries important messages – cultural, spiritual, creating spaces of a special creative ecology and musical landscape.
In Moscow, on Sunday, October 29, in one of the wonderful halls of the Zurab Tsereteli Art Gallery on Prechistenka, the opening of the International Music Festival dedicated to the 85th anniversary of the outstanding Turkmen composer, People’s Artist of Turkmenistan, laureate of the USSR State Prize, the State Prize of Turkmenistan named after Magtymguly Nury Halmamedov took place.
The name of the brilliantly talented composer Nury Halmamedov has firmly entered the history of professional music of Turkmenistan as the creator of a unique individual style that combines the traditions of Turkmen folk music and composition techniques of the 19th and 20th centuries. His music was a unique embodiment of classical, romantic and impressionistic styles.
The competition of young musicians is the creative core of the Moscow International Art Festival "Sounds of Dutar" named after Nury Halmamedov, which will be held for the seventh time in the Russian capital from October 29 to November 4. One of the most important tasks of the festival is to preserve the spirit of classical music in a modern context. Following this intention, its organizers welcomed everyone who wanted to participate in the competition and received a record number of applications this year.
An exhibition of works by the best Turkmen artisans of folk applied art took place on September 30 at the Museum of Fine Arts in Ashgabat. The exposition was held as part of the Lebap Handmade Exports (Lebap HME) business incubator program, which started in Turkmenistan this spring.
Nikolai Artemovich Amiyants is an Honored Artist of Turkmenistan, Associate Professor of the Department of String Instruments of the Turkmen National Conservatory named after Maya Kulieva. He is the founder of the violin performing school in Turkmenistan.
.. The day before the match between Turkmen "Ahal" and Saudi "Al-Faiha", being in the podium, I had the opportunity to talk informally with the goalkeeper of the club from Annau, Rahat Japarov.
The film crew of the Oguzhan Turkmenfilm Film Studio arrived in Moscow for one day, on September 1, to shoot a story about the mono opera "Monologues of Magtymguly Pyragy" by composer Mammed Huseynov. This story will be included in a documentary about the great poet, whose 300th anniversary will be celebrated internationally in 2024.
The Embassy of Turkmenistan in Belgium, in cooperation with the Diplomatic World Institute, presented in Brussels on the evening of August 31 an exposition called "Cultural Treasures of Turkmenistan".
The creative evening of Turkmen musicians – the famous pianist Vladimir Mkrtumov and the talented violinist Aybolek Muhiyeva, which was held with great success in the Moscow House of Nationalities in the summer, can be called nothing else but "talents and fans". By a lucky chance, I happened to be in Moscow these days and got to this magnificent concert organized by the Moscow Society of Turkmen Culture. When I saw how the highest musical light of the Russian capital honored and applauded musicians from Turkmenistan, of course, I began to burst with pride.
Musicians of the State Symphony Orchestra conducted by conductor Rasul Klychev are on tour in Germany these days and participate in the summer music festival, which takes place annually in Bayreuth, Bavaria. These days, the German town is turning into a magnificent concert venue, and the natural scenery is a bizarre urban architecture with a symbiosis of medieval and modern architecture. Musical elite from all over the world come here every summer.
Melbourne. July. Warm winter evening. There is vanity and pandemonium in the courtyard of the Russian House. Tickets for the “Brother” concert dedicated to Sergei Bodrov Jr., a famous Russian director and actor, were sold out two weeks in advance. The organizer of the musical project is amateur singer Murad Arrykov, a Turkmen from Ashgabat who now lives in the Australian city. About a year ago, he won the hearts of the Russian-speaking Melbourne audience by winning the performers' competition with the song "Favorite Eyes". This melodic composition, in fact, "opened" the concert venues of Melbourne to him. Orient told his readers about this story.
The story happened 15 years ago in Tashkent, where two married couples met by chance – the newlyweds Govher and Romain Gouvernet, who came to the Uzbek capital from Ashgabat for work, and the famous composer Pierre Tilua and his wife Greta Komur, who found themselves in Uzbekistan as part of the Bukhara Violin music project.
These days, French composer Pierre Tilois is in Turkmenistan, the owner of the most prestigious music awards in France, Germany, the United States, the author of about 300 works, including several operas, dozens of symphonies, concertos for a soloist and orchestra, symphonic poems, oratorios, quartets, music for cinema and more. For about ten years, Pierre Tilois has been the organizer of music festivals among composers, the founder of a number of creative teams, he is also actively involved in social activities.
