Concert “Music and soul” took place in the Moscow Theological Academy
Once Aristotle said that music is an intermediary between spiritual and sensual life. Being considered as just a form of art, music is an amazing result of synergy between our soul and our senses. As stated music has always been used as a tool to express lyrical feeling and personal sentiments. For many people it also became a kind of diary aimed to preserve precious life moments. As a rule of fact, all this love and warmth of sweet memories is enshrined forever in different aspects of music.
On December 5 th a concert “Music and soul” took place in the Elizabethan’s hall of the Moscow Theological Academy. It was hold by the initiative of a third year student Gleb Shumko and his wife Maria Shumko, student of the Crimean Federal university, with the blessing of an administration of the Moscow Theological Academy.
Gleb Shumko:
One evening while my wife was playing the piano, we came up with an idea of this concert. Obviously, being themselves newlywed, we chose love as a main theme. Also it was my wife’s project in the Crimean university, so we thought that our students would benefit from listening to these classical pieces of music. We would like to thank an administration for its help in organizing the concert.
Seminarians and students of a Precentors’ faculty of the Moscow Theological academy performed for students and Academy guests who came to indulge classical music. The former Elizabethan’s dining room and a choice of songs created a special atmosphere of the evening.
During the concert the following pieces of music were performed: “Calling to You, My Lord” I. S. Bach, “In front of the icon of Theotokos” L. Yanachek, “A Girl was singing in a church choir” (music V. Sidorov, lyrics A. Block), “Evening in a harbour” (music V. Solovey-Sedoy, words A. Churkin), a Ukrainian folk song “Dark eyes, black eyes” and songs of I. Zshuravlev and A. Aleksin.
Background information:
During the concert the following pieces of music were performed: “Calling to You, My Lord” I. S. Bach, “In front of the icon of Theotokos” L. Yanachek, “A Girl was singing in a church choir” (music V. Sidorov, lyrics A. Block), “Evening in a harbour” (music V. Solovey-Sedoy, words A. Churkin), a Ukrainian folk song “Dark eyes, black eyes” and songs of I. Zshuravlev and A. Aleksin.
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