27/09/10 - Enchantment of Melodies in Chekhoviana concert

Дата публикации: Jan 19, 2012 1:25:3 PM

The National Symphonic Orchestra of Uzbekistan excited its audience anew with its striking performance in the State Conservatory of Uzbekistan. The new concert season of 2010-2011 opened with the concert performance of Chekhoviana ballet by the famous Uzbek composer Anvar Ergashev to characters of plays Three Sisters and Seagull by Anton Chekhov.

Sensual and thrilling music of Chekhoviana ballet gifted spectators with new impressions and positive emotions, enabling them to enjoy the art of the Russian classic and talent of the Uzbek composer.

The classic music is getting popular among young people, evidencing of their wish to get acquainted with the world classics. This tendency is proved by the increasing number of youngsters regularly visiting the classic music concerts. This kind of amusement brings not only aesthetic pleasure, but fosters and cultivates high moral features in young people.

The concert on the occasion of 150th anniversary of Anton Chekhov’s birth became a peculiar reflection of creativity of eminent national figures of art and foreign classics. His art inspired many world composers on creation of brilliant works, precisely reflecting delicate features and temper of characters, and impressive subject in the writer’s works. Many composers managed to introduce bright colors into performances, and showcast the uniqueness of their creative work. Anvar Ergashev, Honored Figure of Arts of Uzbekistan, State Award laureate, author of numerous music compositions, serves a model.

“Anton Chekhov is an excellent expert of people’s souls, his works remind us of the necessity of remaining humans in spite of any trials, and preserving a true spirituality at that. That is why I decided to address the creative work of this outstanding writer,” says Anvar Ergashev.

“We witness two commencements here: the Russian writer and the Uzbek composer. Their tandem engendered a very interesting synthesis of a composition imbued with the Chekhov’s creative culture and pertained to the Uzbek people’s origins,” says Andrey Slonim, production director and set designer of Alisher Navoi SABT, Honored Worker of Culture of Uzbekistan. “This ballet is also an independent symphonic performance. I’m very glad to see its success in Chekhoviana concert as I know about the whole process of working on it: we presented its first part a year ago, and now the second part was concluded. I find this a big professional merit of the composer Anvar Ergashev.”

Charming sounds of the national symphony orchestra made people sometimes fall into melancholic romantic dreams or wake up and survive passionately together with extraordinary fates of Chekhov’s characters. Upon the concert’s conclusion, grateful audience awarded the performers with a storm of applause, and encored them once and again.

Guzal Fayzieva