Culture

Miracle of the "Winter waltz"

On 25 January, a concert of vocal music was held at the JINR Universal Library.

The audience was invited on a musical journey through different countries and eras by the winners of all-Russian and international competitions, members of the trio "AMARITA" Anna Kulakovskaya (soprano), Marina Sidorchuk (mezzo-soprano), the honorary worker of general education of the Russian Federation director and accompanist Tatyana Klinnikova.

"I hope that today, on Tatyana's Day, your hearts will be filled with music, love and joy," the author of the lyrical and poetic component of the concert - a slide show, poetic excerpts, stories and legends of the creation of the performed musical compositions Irina Leonovich started the concert. "May every note, every word that sounded in this hall give you happiness and pleasure!" she wished the gathered.

The concert programme included romances, waltzes and tangos from different countries and times. And a colorful whirlwind of beautiful, beloved melodies swirled: "Listen, if you want" by the singer and guitarist of the famous Sokolovsky Gypsy Choir Nikolay Shishkin, Barcarolle from "Tales of Hoffmann" by Jacques Offenbach, "Pasture" by Boris Fomin. We learned that the waltz "Silence", written by Isaak Dunaevsky especially for K.Shulzhenko for the 1954 film "Merry stars" became her favorite. There were also Italian melodies: "Return to Sorrento", O Sole mio, composed by Eduardo di Capua not in Naples, as one might assume, but during his trip to Russia in the Black Sea city of Odessa.

Most of the compositions were performed by a duet, yet admirers of the vocalists' talent were able to hear their beautiful solo voices. We were invited to dance the tango "Blue eyes" by Oscar Strok and "Parting waltz" by Yan Frenkel. And the last piece of the programme - the waltz "Danube waves" by the Romanian composer of Serbian origin I.Ivanovich Anna and Marina dedicated to the memory of the founder and long-time conductor of the choir "Bel Canto" Diana N.Minaeva. The audience also warmly welcomed the performance of the young vocalist Anna Zaitseva, a student of the Children's Art School "Rhapsody" (teacher Antonina Lushina).

Sincere applause, flowers and the feeling that for two hours we were transported to a blooming, fragrant, trill-filled spring - this is the miracle created by this "Winter waltz".

Olga TARANTINA,
photo by Elena PUZYNINA