INTERNATIONAL MUSIC FERSTIVAL “A WHITE NIGHT OF ROMANTIC MUSIC”

INTERNATIONAL MUSIC FERSTIVAL “A WHITE NIGHT OF ROMANTIC MUSIC - 2010” opening

FESTIVAL INFORMATION

     The production center Art- Assemblies and the Committee for Culture of Saint-Petersburg present the International festival A White Night of Romantic Music aimed to revive and preserve the cultural legacy – romantic music and art of the 18-19^th centuries. The leading character is the WHITE NIGHT. The venues are specially chosen based on the light characteristics: these are the concert halls with huge windows or atriums, and city parks and squares where the romantic of white nights enhances the romantic of music and art at late night time…

    In June 2005, the very first project was held in the Grand Hall of the Shostakovich St-Petersburg Academic Philharmonia. It was a great success highly praised by mass-media. The action aimed at popularizing classic music among the young non-philharmonic audience drew a wide response from the public and favorable opinions of mass media.

    Youth for Youth was the subject-matter of the 2006 Festival. The program included: 24 June, the Grand Hall of the Philharmonia: A Night of Tchaikovsky Music; 25 July, the Cappella: A Night of Tariverdiev Music; 28 July, the Cappella: A Romantic Night – Terem Quartet + Ballet; 1 July, the Grand Hall of the Philharmonia: A Night Gala-Concert; 7 July, the Small Hall of the Philharmonia: A Night of Ballads (Trio from Estonia). Line-up: the St-Petersburg Philharmonic Orchestra, the Philharmonic Academic Symphony Orchestra, the Terem Quartet, Aleksey Gribol, Svetlana Kryuchkova, the Youth Chamber Orchestra ‘Baltica’, Daniel Zaretsky (organ), Alexander Boldachyov (harp), Julia Novikova (soprano), the band ‘Petroplitana’, Sofia Khudyakova (soprano), Viktor Vysotsky (grand piano), Alexander Shirunov (accordion), Olga Dzusova (singing) and many other acclaimed artists.

    The 2007 festival Russian legacy was dedicated to the year of Russian language in Russia. The concert program featured works of the Russian compositors based on the texts of distinguished Russian poets and writers. The St-Petersburg’s classical halls opened the doors for the public from Friday, 1 June, to Saturday, 7 July. Lineup: Polina Osetinskaya, the Philharmonic Academic Symphony Orchestra, Alexander Dmitriev conducting; the Symphony Orchestra of the St-Petersburg Cappella, Alexander Chernushenko conducting; soloists of the Mariinsky Theater Oksana Shilova and Sergey Skorokhodov, organist Oleg Kinyaev and many more.

    The 2008 festival was dedicated to the outstanding St-Petersburg composer Vladislav Uspensky. The opening took place on May, 22, in the Chapel (the German Symphony Orchestra of Dortmund, soloist Giora Feidman (clarinet), an Oscar winner, with Arkady Berin conducting), May, 25 Gala-concert of Uspensky’s music in the Grand Hall of the Shostakovich Philharmonia (Polina Osetinskaya, Aleksey Gribol, Alexander Sladkovsky, Marina Vasilieva, Evgeny Rumantsev and others) accompanied by a unique light show by VALENTIN AFANASIEV. Every Friday (May, 23 – June, 27) saw the free-to-the-public concerts of classic and jazz music, free admission. 

    Traditionally, the ticket visitors get free admission to the Colonnade of the Isaac Cathedral and could enjoy a magnificent view of the night city with a bird’s-eye view, and can also go for a ship-tour by rivers and channels of the Northern Venice with a 50% discount, thus prolonging the mood of the romantic night.

    The light of white nights getting through the windows and the charming music played by virtuosic artists bestows the visitors the genuine atmosphere of St-Petersburg romantic nights.