TODAY’S BEST BET: Great Russian Music...Made in USA! “Сати. Нескучная классика...” с Артемом Варгафтиком и Диной Кирнарской/Sati: Engaging the Musical Classics” with Artem Vagraftik and Dina Kirnarskaya (Interview-performance. Russia, 2013)(Kultura, 15:00) -- > This 2012 TEFI award-winning series takes Russian music-related folk – performers, composers, critics, musicologists and so on – and gives them the floor to do what they do and/or talk about it, led by the gentle but expert prompting of Sati Spivakova, whose goal is to enlighten new audiences to The Truth, as she sees it, about the musical classics: that they are a language – one that everyone loves when they learn it. So here’s some first-rate learnin’… Today’s installment features two excellent enlighteners on the subject of great Russian music makers abroad – specifically Europe and America – and entertainingly answers, via articulate yakking and well-chosen performance examples, the musical version of an eternal question: Can you take Russia out of a Russian? Or to turn it around: What did America mean to Tchaikovsky musically? Or Stravinsky? Or Rachmaninoff? The expert guests are Artem Vagraftik – cellist, music historian, critic and two-time TEFI winner for musical programming on Kultura – and Dina Kirnarskaya, a uniquely accomplished psychologist-cum-musicologist, pro-rector of the Gnesin Music Academy here and author of two books that are music-appreciation standards: “Классическая музыка для всех”/Classical Music for Everyone (1998; now in translation) and “The Natural Musician: On Abilities, Giftedness and Talent” (Oxford University Press, 2009) – the latter a volume that you really, really want to buy, in fact 8 or 10 copies of it – use the convenient link below – right after you finish reading this blurb. Do it NOW. OK, then tune in this afternoon (or watch via the Kultura link) and hear DK make her case in person.
Posted on: Tue, 24 Sep 2013 06:17:06 +0000
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