Today the Tchaikovsky Concert Hall hosts regular concerts by both the Russian State Symphony Orchestra and many visiting international orchestras, ensembles, choirs, soloists and conductors.
April 13, 2006 (Press Release) --
History of the Hall
The building housing the Tchaikovsky Concert Hall, whose massive square-pillared portico and diamond-patterned facade looms above the main entrance to Mayakovsky Metro Station, was originally built as a theater for the avant-garde director and producer, Vsevolod Meyerhold. Meyerhold, who is regarded as one of the most exciting and experimental Russian theater directors of this century, started his career at Stanislavsky and Nemirovich-Danchenko's innovative Moscow Art Theater. He hoped to turn the building on Triumphalnaya Ploshad into a ground-breakingly modern theater, with a double revolving stage on which to play out his increasingly radical theatrical experiments. However, Meyerhold was arrested and killed during Stalin's purges of the 1930s and the theater was converted into a concert hall, which is now used by the Russian State Symphony Orchestra.
The Russian State Symphony Orchestra was founded in the early 1930s and began its first concert program in the Grand Hall of the Moscow Conservatoire in October 1936. The orchestra has played with some of the world's top musicians, including Svyatoslav Richter, Natalia Gutman, Yuri Bashmet, Evgeni Kissin and Vadim Repin, and has been held under the baton of some of the world's best-known conductors; Sir Yehudi Menuhin, Andrew Litton, Kurt Masur, Yuri Temirkanov and Valery Gergiev.
Performances
Today the Tchaikovsky Concert Hall hosts regular concerts by both the Russian State Symphony Orchestra and many visiting international orchestras, ensembles, choirs, soloists and conductors.
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The building housing the Tchaikovsky Concert Hall, whose massive square-pillared portico and diamond-patterned facade looms above the main entrance to Mayakovsky Metro Station, was originally built as a theater for the avant-garde director and producer, Vsevolod Meyerhold. Meyerhold, who is regarded as one of the most exciting and experimental Russian theater directors of this century, started his career at Stanislavsky and Nemirovich-Danchenko's innovative Moscow Art Theater. He hoped to turn the building on Triumphalnaya Ploshad into a ground-breakingly modern theater, with a double revolving stage on which to play out his increasingly radical theatrical experiments. However, Meyerhold was arrested and killed during Stalin's purges of the 1930s and the theater was converted into a concert hall, which is now used by the Russian State Symphony Orchestra.
The Russian State Symphony Orchestra was founded in the early 1930s and began its first concert program in the Grand Hall of the Moscow Conservatoire in October 1936. The orchestra has played with some of the world's top musicians, including Svyatoslav Richter, Natalia Gutman, Yuri Bashmet, Evgeni Kissin and Vadim Repin, and has been held under the baton of some of the world's best-known conductors; Sir Yehudi Menuhin, Andrew Litton, Kurt Masur, Yuri Temirkanov and Valery Gergiev.
Performances
Today the Tchaikovsky Concert Hall hosts regular concerts by both the Russian State Symphony Orchestra and many visiting international orchestras, ensembles, choirs, soloists and conductors.
Source: http://www.google.com/www.moscow-taxi.com
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