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Moscow's 850th Anniversary Pageant
{{Unreferenced, date=June 2019, bot=noref (GreenC bot) Moscow’s 850th Anniversary Pageant; Saint George, The Bell and The Dragon, opened Moscow’s week-long anniversary celebrations on 5 September 1997. It was staged in Red Square in front of St Basil’s Cathedral and was broadcast live throughout Russia and the Commonwealth of Independent States countries and in major broadcast markets elsewhere. The pageant featured a cast of a thousand (plus horses), with Russian classical, choral and folk music as well as dance. Large-scale graphics were used to depict scenes from Moscow’s past. The event was commissioned by the mayor of Moscow, Yuri Luzhkov, with the British producer and impresario Tony Hollingsworth being brought in to executive-produce the show. The creative director was Andrei Konchalovsky Andrei Sergeyevich Mikhalkov-Konchalovsky (russian: link=no, Андрей Сергеевич Михалков-Кончаловский; born 20 August 1937) is a Russian film ...
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Commonwealth Of Independent States
The Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) is a regional intergovernmental organization in Eurasia. It was formed following the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991. It covers an area of and has an estimated population of 239,796,010. The CIS encourages cooperation in economic, political and military affairs and has certain powers relating to the coordination of trade, finance, lawmaking, and security. It has also promoted cooperation on cross-border crime prevention. As the Soviet Union disintegrated, Belarus, Russia and Ukraine signed the Belovezh Accords on 8 December 1991, declaring that the Union had effectively ceased to exist and proclaimed the CIS in its place. On 21 December, the Alma-Ata Protocol was signed. The Baltic states (Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania), which regard their membership in the Soviet Union as an illegal occupation, chose not to participate. Georgia withdrew its membership in 2008 following the Russo-Georgian War. Ukraine formally ended its ...
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Yuri Luzhkov
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Tony Hollingsworth
The Nelson Mandela 70th Birthday Tribute was a popular-music concert staged on 11 June 1988 at Wembley Stadium, London, and broadcast to 67 countries and an audience of 600 million. Marking the forthcoming 70th birthday (18 July 1988) of the imprisoned anti-apartheid revolutionary Nelson Mandela, the concert was also referred to as ''Freedomfest'', ''Free Nelson Mandela Concert'' and ''Mandela Day''. In the United States, the Fox television network heavily censored the political aspects of the concert.Reed, T.V., ''The Art of Protest'', University of Minnesota Press, 2005, p. 174.Lee, Martin A., and Solomon, Norman, ''Unreliable Sources: A Guide to Detecting Bias in News Media''. . Quoted by Norman Solomon in Shirley, John, "Political and Corporate Censorship in the Land of the Free", ''Gauntlet'' No. 3, 1992.Morse, Steve (13 June 1988), ''The Boston Globe''. The concert is considered a notable example of anti-apartheid music. First of two Mandela events The Birthday Tribute ...
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Andrei Konchalovsky
Andrei Sergeyevich Mikhalkov-Konchalovsky (russian: link=no, Андрей Сергеевич Михалков-Кончаловский; born 20 August 1937) is a Russian filmmaker. He has worked in Soviet, Hollywood, and contemporary Russian cinema. He is a laureate of the Order "For Merit to the Fatherland", a National Order of the Legion of Honour, an Officer of the Order of Arts and Letters, a Cavalier of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic and a People's Artist of the RSFSR. He is the son of writer Sergey Mikhalkov, and the brother of filmmaker Nikita Mikhalkov. Konchalovsky's work has encompassed theatrical motion pictures, telefilms, documentaries, and stage productions. His film credits include ''Uncle Vanya'' (1970), ''Siberiade'' (1979), ''Maria's Lovers'' (1984), ''Runaway Train'' (1985), ''Tango & Cash'' (1989), '' House of Fools'' (2002), ''The Postman's White Nights'' (2014), ''Paradise'' (2016), and ''Dear Comrades!'' (2020). He also directed the 1997 ...
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Tribute Inspirations
The Nelson Mandela 70th Birthday Tribute was a popular-music concert staged on 11 June 1988 at Wembley Stadium, London, and broadcast to 67 countries and an audience of 600 million. Marking the forthcoming 70th birthday (18 July 1988) of the imprisoned anti-apartheid revolutionary Nelson Mandela, the concert was also referred to as ''Freedomfest'', ''Free Nelson Mandela Concert'' and ''Mandela Day''. In the United States, the Fox television network heavily censored the political aspects of the concert.Reed, T.V., ''The Art of Protest'', University of Minnesota Press, 2005, p. 174.Lee, Martin A., and Solomon, Norman, ''Unreliable Sources: A Guide to Detecting Bias in News Media''. . Quoted by Norman Solomon in Shirley, John, "Political and Corporate Censorship in the Land of the Free", ''Gauntlet'' No. 3, 1992.Morse, Steve (13 June 1988), ''The Boston Globe''. The concert is considered a notable example of anti-apartheid music. First of two Mandela events The Birthday Tribute ...
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Pelageya
Pelageya Sergeyevna Telegina (russian: link=no, Пелаге́я Серге́евна Теле́гина; before marriage Pelageya Sergeyevna Khanova; born Polina Sergeyevna Smirnova; 14 July 1986), known mononymously as Pelageya, is а Russian singer. She sings folk-songs from different nations in different languages, romances and compositions written by the members of her group, mostly in rock arrangements. Life and career Pelageya's mother, Svetlana Gennadiyevna Khanova (russian: link=no, Светлана Геннадьевна Ханова), formerly a jazz-singer, theatre director and performing arts instructor, is now a producer and art director of her daughter's band. Pelageya's father is unknown. Her last name ''Khanova'' is the surname of her mother's last husband. At the age of eight, Pelageya entered the musical school attached to Novosibirsk Conservatoire. At nine she was awarded the title "Best folk-singer of Russia in 1996" at a television contest. In 1997, she ...
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Red Army Band
Central Military Band of the Ministry of Defense of Russia, also known as the Red Army Band is a military band unit of the Russian Armed Forces. It is a branch of the Military Band Service of the Armed Forces of Russia. The current head of the band is Colonel Sergey Durygin. Brief history Even as the Presidential Band of the Russian Federation is the more senior military band of Russia (as it reports to the Federal Protective Service as part of the Kremlin Regiment), the CMB-MDR is the seniormost band in the Russian Armed Forces and the oldest active band in service, having been founded on October 1, 1927. Composition The band consists of 227 musicians that come from all walks of life: civilians, contract soldiers, and conscript musicians serving their military service term. The band itself is divided into two sections: a brass band and a symphonic band. Activities and Collaborations The band participates in social, and cultural events of Russia. It is a permanent par ...
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Music Festivals In Russia
Music is generally defined as the The arts, art of arranging sound to create some combination of Musical form, form, harmony, melody, rhythm or otherwise Musical expression, expressive content. Exact definition of music, definitions of music vary considerably around the world, though it is an aspect of all human societies, a cultural universal. While scholars agree that music is defined by a elements of music, few specific elements, there is Elements of music#Selection of elements, no consensus on their precise definitions. The creation of music is commonly divided into musical composition, musical improvisation, and musical performance, though the topic itself extends into #Academic study, academic disciplines, Music journalism, criticism, Philosophy of music, philosophy, and Music psychology, psychology. Music may be performed or improvised using a vast range of musical instrument, instruments, including the human voice. In some musical contexts, a performance or composi ...
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