RCS Haven E-Bulletin – March 2018

There will be many practical sessions from teaching grammar to incorporating new trends in IT into your Russian classroom. All lead by truly inspirational and experienced teachers like wonderful Jon Drury.

Places are limited.

A place costs £35.

Rossotrudnichestvo, 37 Kensington High St, London W8 5ED

 

As the LPO launches its STRAVINSKY epic project, we are delighted to introduce you to the creative and extraordinary worPianist Dr Sergey Rybin will discuss the exciting sound world of Rimsky-Korsakov with Royal Opera House Principal Artist, the baritone Yuriy Yurchuk and award winning soprano Royal Opera House Young Artist Anush Hovhannissyan. These rising stars will perform a programme of songs and arias by Rimsky-Korsakov and other composers of his circle.

The Ivy, 9 West Street, London, WC2H 9NQ

 

These intriguing and captivating stories bring to life the humour, frailty and absurdity of our ordinary human drama.

Written as magical surrealism: poetic and daunting, true but not quite real. Lost husbands, found daughters. London, Berlin, St.Petersburg, New York. People who are cats and people who are boxes. People who are squirrels or Wales. People who are people but still have tails. Tales.

Anna is reading her stories in Russian. The author's English texts will be performed by actress Vera Horton.

Clementi House, 128 Kensington Church Street, W8 4BH London

 

A bilingual performance by JAG Art, a theatrical troupe which was founded by SSEES alumni.                                

St. Petersburg was home to the Stray Dog Cabaret, where many of the poets, musicians and artists of the Silver Age first presented their works in the years before the Revolution. JAG Art’s hour-long show - “A Cloud in Trousers” - provides an imaginative portrayal of the Revolution and its aftermath, as well as recreating the lively atmosphere of the Stray Dog Cabaret, where the artists originally presented their songs, music and poetry.

This performance, which was staged at Waterstone’s, Piccadilly last autumn, will include poems (in Russian and English translation) by Mandelstam, Akhmatova, Tsvetaeva and Pasternak, as well as by Blok, Esenin, Gumilyev and Mayakovsky.

Pushkin House, 5a Bloomsbury Square, WC1A 2TA, London

 

Charitable Foundation Chance For Life has a pleasure to invite you to the concert of Oleg Pogudin who arguably is one of the leading artists in the genre of romance and lyrical songs.

Oleg Pogudin is rightly known as the “Silver Voice of Russia”. From the very beginning of his career, Oleg Pogudin has distinguished himself as a singer with the most verified repertoire, serious approach to creativity and musical style, aspiration to the aesthetic ideals of the 19-20th century. Oleg’s performances combine various genres: romances, guitar song, variety song and much more.

All the raised money will be sent to Life Line in Russia to safe 2 year-old Samir Shafigullin.

Grosvenor Chapel, 24 S Audley St, W1K 2PA London

 

Alexander Valentinovich Vampilov (19 August 1937 - 17 August 1972) was a Soviet playwright who is often called “Chekhov of the modern times”. His best known works are Last Summer in Chulimsk, Duck Hunting, Elder Son and Farewell in June. Many of his plays have been filmed and televised in Russia. Vampilov emerged as one of the principal figures in the generation of dramatists who came to prominence following the death of Stalin. He reached the height of his popularity in the seventies and the first half of the eighties, but the process had already begun in his own lifetime.

Pushkin House, 5a Bloomsbury Square, WC1A 2TA, London

 

The book tells about life and work of the Russian poet Joseph Brodsky. Brodsky was forced to leave his homeland in 1972 and received the Nobel Prize in 1987.

Rather than telling about the poet directly, the book focuses on the biographies of three women which were closely linked to the life and work of the poet: Valentina Polukhina (London), Annelisa Alleva (Rome) und Evelina Schatz (Milano-Moscow).

Rossotrudnichestvo, 37 Kensington High St, Kensington, London W8 5ED

 

Russian Ballet Day in the UK is of great cultural and social significance, since they allow the inhabitants of the UK, first of all, children and young people to be associated with the high art of the Russian Ballet, to demonstrate the culture of Russian hospitality and tea drinking, to mutually enrich and diversify historical ties of our two countries and the great traditions of Russian culture.

Rossotrudnichestvo, 37 Kensington High St, Kensington, London W8 5ED

Nataliya Kartasheva is the winner of many international piano competitions and festivals and she is also the soloist of the First Moscow Student's Philharmonia.

Programme: Jongen. "The sun at noon"; J.S.Bach. Prelude and Fugue Fis dur, WTC, Book 1; Shostakovich. Prelude and Fugue A dur; Prokofiev. Etude d moll op.2 n.1; Rachmaninov. Etudes-tableaux op.33/2 C dur, op.33/3 c moll; Lyapunov. Transcendental etude op.11 n.10 "Lezghinka"; Scriabin. 5 preludes op.16; Sviridov. Sonate for piano.

Rossotrudnichestvo, 37 Kensington High St, Kensington, London W8 5ED