First festival of art song "Literary Chistopol" took place
The "Literary Chistopol", a festival of art song on August 19-21, 2016 took place. The festival was organized by the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Tatarstan, Chistopol municipal district, Chistopol state historical-architectural and literary museum. The festival was held for the first time and gathered on Chistopol land authors, artists, lovers of bard songs and poets. The festival has received all-Russian status, geography of participants was quite broad: Kazan, Rostov-on-Don, Yoshkar-Ola, Tolyatti, Novotroitsk Orenburg region, Naberezhnye Chelny, Nizhnekamsk, Bugulma, Chistopol, Aznakaevo.
The guests of honor and members of the "Literary Chistopol" jury bard song festival were Yulia Ziganshina (Kazan), Dmitri Bikchentaev (Kazan), Elmira Galeeva (Kazan), Ilya Olenev (Rostov-on-Don), Mark Offen (Kazan), Alla Grebneva (Kazan), Vladimir Holtzman (Kazan), Olga Levadnaya (Kazan) and Alexander Avvakumov (Kazan).
As chairman of the jury, Honoured Artist of the Republic of Tatarstan Yulia Ziganshina said , the festival "Literary Chistopol" already has acquired its own "face" and the concept differs from other festivals of art song, held in Tatarstan and Russia. Chistopol special feature of the festival is that the requirement for participation in the competition program indicated performance of the song on the verses of poets associated with Chistopol: Boris Pasternak, Mikhail Isakovskogy, Victor Bokov, Marina Tsvetaeva, Anna Akhmatova, Lev Oshanina and others. This approach allows us to expand the boundaries of the popularization of creativity of well known writers and public talents, opens new authors and performers.
Talented artists of Chistopol Nailya Nigmetzyanova and Olga Piskunova developed the logo of the festival, harmoniously showing symbiosis of literature, music and cultural heritage.
Within the festival the work of creative workshops wer held, competitive performances of the participants in nominations "Author", "Artist", "Duet", "Ensemble", "Let's remember all by name," "Songs at the fire", "Retro". The main competitive program and the preliminary rounds were held based at the "Rovesniki" health camp, where, in fact, participants lived. There, on the main stage of the camp the main competitive concert, which took place 26 performers, was held .
Chistopol have had the opportunity to get acquainted with the work of the participants, to attend a concert in the city squares. On the opening day of the festival of art song "Literary Chistopol", August 19, Skaryatinsky garden hosted a welcome concert, and on August 20 at the "Chistay" - a gala concert, where the ceremony of awarding the winners, winners, were the winners and guests of honor of the festival took place. Presenter of gala concert was Honoured Art Worker, the composer, songwriter and singer Dmitry Bikchentaev.
August 21, participants and guests of the festival made a tour through the historic center of the Chistopol, visited the Museum of city history, Boris Pasternak Memorial Museum, the Museum gift shop. With words of gratitude and hope for a meeting in Chistopol in the future, the participants of the festival, said goodbye to the organizers, with each other and departed again to different cities, taking with them fond memories of the August days held in the city on the Kama River, the press service of the museum-reserve informs.