October 21, 2017 at the folklore theater "Golden Ring" will be a concert called "The Age of the Present". The big musical program consists of three departments. Famous singer-songwriters Alexander Gorodnitsky, Yuli Kim and Sergey Nikitin will perform before the audience.
Fans of the author's and bard songs are waiting for the best hits from the masters of the genre in a soulful live performance. These will be stories filled with deep meaning and sincere feelings: so different in mood, but equally heartfelt and "grabbing for the soul."
organizational information
Those wishing to buy tickets for the Epoch of the Present concert in Moscow can choose seats in the stalls or the amphitheater of the Golden Ring. The artists will start their performance at 18.00. The musical event is designed for listeners who have reached the age of 12 years.
More about performers
Alexander Gorodnitsky is one of the creators of the art song genre in our country. A geophysicist by profession, he is the chief researcher of the Oceanological Institute. He wrote songs on voyages and expeditions. His poems and songs are translated into many languages and included in school curricula. The song "Atlantes hold the sky" is considered the unofficial anthem of St. Petersburg. Gorodnitsky wrote more than fifty books of poetry, songs and memoirs.
Julius Kim is a poet, bard, teacher, screenwriter, playwright, philologist and historian. He began to write and perform songs in his student years, very quickly gained popularity. Now he composes songs and plays for plays and films. Participated in the dissident movement in the USSR; in his songs of those years, in a light, ironic form, he criticized society. In the 1970s, Kim retired from his human rights activism. The discography of this author-performer includes more than 20 titles of audio carriers with songs (discs, records, audio and video cassettes). He wrote over 500 songs, 30 plays and 10 books, translated into Russian the script and most of the songs of the famous musical Notre Dame de Paris.
Sergey Nikitin is a famous composer and singer-songwriter. He writes songs based on poems by domestic and foreign poets (Pasternak, Voznesensky, Yevtushenko, Shakespeare and others). They will compose music for films (including the famous films The Irony of Fate, Moscow Does Not Believe in Tears, Old New Year and many others), as well as for performances.
Laureate of the Bulat Okudzhava State Literary Prize, Honored Scientist of the Russian Federation, Academician of the Russian Academy of Natural Sciences, Doctor of Geological and Mineralogical Sciences, Professor.
Poems Alexander Gorodnitsky began to write at school (1947), and songs - in the first expeditions (1954). His first poetry publications date back to 1948.
More than one generation of our fellow citizens grew up on the songs of A. Gorodnitsky. Many songs written by him in the Far North and on long ocean voyages and still enjoying wide popularity are considered nameless and folk songs. These include songs "Snow", "Wooden Cities", "Song of the Polar Pilots", "Shoals", "To the Mainland", "Canada", "Pillars of Hercules", "The French Ambassador's Wife", "Clean Ponds" and many others. Song "Atlanteans Hold the Sky", which won first place at the All-Union Song Contest in 1966, became a legend for tens of millions of fans of the author's song.
The discography of A. Gorodnitsky includes about 50 titles of records, laser discs, audio and video cassettes with author's songs. Among them: "Russian bards. Alexander Gorodnitsky"("Imka-Press", Paris, 1977), "Atlantes" "Friends Meeting"("Melody", Leningrad, 1987), "Shore"("Melody", Leningrad, 1988), "Near the Square"("Russian-German Music", St. Petersburg, 1993), "For those on Earth"(CD, St. Petersburg Recording Studio, 1995) and many, many others.
Alexander Gorodnitsky is the author of 28 books of poems, songs and memoirs. Among them: "Atlantes"(Poems. M .: Soviet writer, 1967), "New Holland"(Poems. M .: Sov. writer, 1971), "Shore"(Poems. M .: Sov. writer, 1984), "Midnight Sun"(Poems. M .: Sov. writer, 1990), "Flying Angels"(Poems and songs. Sverdlovsk: Start, 1991), "Near and Far"(Memoir prose and songs. M .: Polygraph, 1991), "Islands in the Ocean"(Songs. M .: MGTSAP, 1993), "Constellation Pisces"(Poems. St. Petersburg: The Ninth Wave, 1993), "Footprint in the Ocean"(Doc. narration. Prose and songs. Petrozavodsk: Karelia, 1993), "Island of Israel"(Poems and songs. Jerusalem, 1995), "Seasons"(Poems. M .: Sampo, 1996), "Ice Stirrup"(Poems. St. Petersburg: Star, 1997), "Atlanteans Hold the Sky"(Jerusalem, 1999), "Station names"(St. Petersburg: Petropol, 1999), "Behind the Time"(M.: Vagant, 1999), "Selected poems and songs"(St. Petersburg: Limbus-press, 2000), "Compositions"(M.: Lokid, 2000), "When Destiny is at stake"(M.: Eksmo, 2001), "And still hope to live"(M.: Vagrius, 2001), as well as numerous periodic publications in domestic and foreign literary journals, collections, almanacs.
The songs and poems of Alexander Gorodnitsky were translated into English, French, German, Bulgarian, Czech, Spanish, Polish, Hebrew and other languages.
For several decades, A. Gorodnitsky has been devoting a lot of time and effort to the promotion of the author's song. Since 1971, he has been the permanent chairman of the jury of the world's largest festival of authorial and amateur songs in memory of Valery Grushin, which takes place on the banks of the Volga near Samara. As chairman and jury member, he repeatedly participated in international, all-Union and all-Russian festivals of author's and amateur songs in Moscow, St. Petersburg, Kyiv, Tallinn, Ulyanovsk, Kursk, Chelyabinsk and other cities. He gave a course of lectures on the author's song in Russia, the USA and Germany. Led creative seminars for young authors.
Numerous articles, dissertations, reviews and scientific reports in our country and abroad are devoted to the work of A. Gorodnitsky. Gorodnitsky's songs and comments to them are included in textbooks on author's song for high school. They have been repeatedly performed on radio and television in Russia and other countries, and have become the subject of numerous television films.
Poems and songs of Gorodnitsky are included in the anthologies of modern Russian poetry (Anthology of Russian poetry "Strophes of the century" (1995), "Petersburg in Russian poetry" (1975), "The law of random numbers", "155 poets in the year of the 850th anniversary of Moscow" (1997 ) and etc.). In 1998 he was awarded the Tsarskoye Selo Lyceum Art Prize, and in 1999 he was the first to be awarded the Bulat Okudzhava State Literary Prize.
A. M. Gorodnitsky was awarded the medals "50th Anniversary of Victory in the Great Patriotic War", "60th Anniversary of Victory in the Great Patriotic War", "250th Anniversary of St. Petersburg" and "300th Anniversary of the Russian Fleet". He is a member of the Writers' Union of Russia (1972) and the International Pen Club.
Lives and works in Moscow.
October 21, 2017 at the folklore theater "Golden Ring" will be a concert called "The Age of the Present". The big musical program consists of three departments. Famous singer-songwriters Alexander Gorodnitsky, Yuli Kim and Sergey Nikitin will perform before the audience.
Fans of the author's and bard songs are waiting for the best hits from the masters of the genre in a soulful live performance. These will be stories filled with deep meaning and sincere feelings: so different in mood, but equally heartfelt and "grabbing for the soul."
organizational information
Those wishing to buy tickets for the Epoch of the Present concert in Moscow can choose seats in the stalls or the amphitheater of the Golden Ring. The artists will start their performance at 18.00. The musical event is designed for listeners who have reached the age of 12 years.
More about performers
Alexander Gorodnitsky is one of the creators of the art song genre in our country. A geophysicist by profession, he is the chief researcher of the Oceanological Institute. He wrote songs on voyages and expeditions. His poems and songs are translated into many languages and included in school curricula. The song "Atlantes hold the sky" is considered the unofficial anthem of St. Petersburg. Gorodnitsky wrote more than fifty books of poetry, songs and memoirs.
Julius Kim is a poet, bard, teacher, screenwriter, playwright, philologist and historian. He began to write and perform songs in his student years, very quickly gained popularity. Now he composes songs and plays for plays and films. Participated in the dissident movement in the USSR; in his songs of those years, in a light, ironic form, he criticized society. In the 1970s, Kim retired from his human rights activism. The discography of this author-performer includes more than 20 titles of audio carriers with songs (discs, records, audio and video cassettes). He wrote over 500 songs, 30 plays and 10 books, translated into Russian the script and most of the songs of the famous musical Notre Dame de Paris.
Sergei Nikitin is a famous composer and singer-songwriter. He writes songs based on poems by domestic and foreign poets (Pasternak, Voznesensky, Yevtushenko, Shakespeare and others). They will compose music for films (including the famous films The Irony of Fate, Moscow Does Not Believe in Tears, Old New Year and many others), as well as for performances.
Concert “Alexander Gorodnitsky, Julius Kim, Sergey Nikitin. The big concert “The Epoch of the Present!” was held in the Golden Ring on October 21, 2017.
