Yuri Temirkanov, play a benefit concert

20th November in the Great Hall of the Moscow Conservatory, a charity concert of the Academic Symphony Orchestra of St. Petersburg Philharmonic, named after DD Shostakovich under outstanding conductors Yuri Temirkanov. Benefit Concert of the cultural and humanitarian programs, ML Rostropovich organized, with the support of the Government of Moscow, dedicated to the 70th Anniversary of the most dramatic days of the Great Patriotic War - the beginning of the Battle of Moscow and heavy during the blockade of Leningrad. The concert takes place on 20 November is to take that day, 70 years ago in St. Petersburg, was a minimum standard bread ration is introduced and a cultural bridge of remembrance in the history of the two capitals have. Theme of the Great Patriotic War has always been sacred to the family of Mstislav Rostropovich and Galina Vishnevskaya. Maestro has lost for years in the evacuation in Orenburg, where his father. Galina Vishnevskaya survived the horrors of the blockade, was a member of the local defense unit, the actress before brigades speak, on trucks, submarines, in dugouts and trenches. Among his many awards, which it considers the most important medal "For the Defense of Leningrad". The concert will Symphony N 7 "Leningrad" DD Shostakovich Concerto N 1 for Piano and Orchestra, Soloist SS Prokofiev -. Denis Matsuev Seventh Symphony, one of the greatest musical works, was performed for the first time in the siege of Leningrad in 1942 and shocked audiences with the balance, strength and power. Concert invited veterans of World War II, prominent Russian artists, representatives of the Presidential Administration, lists the government of the Russian Federation, the Moscow City Government, NGOs, students of the music school fee for his performance Yuri Temirkanov and Honoured Ensemble of Russia Academic Symphony Orchestra of St. Petersburg Philharmonic Moscow War Veterans Hospital № 1 21st November prefect at 12:00 clock Central District Sergei Baidakov and Yuri Temirkanov purchased medical equipment with the fee maestro and his orchestra, the War Veterans Hospital № 1 hand ( Moscow 2, Dubrovskaya st., 13).