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Russian romance club to start with Pushkin concert in Canada

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Russian romance club to start with Pushkin concert in Canada


03.06.2019

Photo:  culture.ru

Russian romance song From Afar club will open in Montreal on June 6 with a big concert timed to the 220th anniversary of the Russian poet Alexander Pushkin. Singers from Russia and Canada will attend the performance. According to the founder of the club, Antonina Levina, the community is going to unite different nations around the romance. It is planned to organize a romance song festival, the Mesto vstrechi Montreal newspaper reports. 

The idea of ​​organizing the club came to Levina after she was awarded the title of ambassador of the Russian romance song at the Great Romansiada festival in Moscow. According to her, the ambassador’s activity should be linked with the promotion of Russian culture in the world and the establishment of ties between nations. There is a Russian-language club of song lovers in Montreal but Antonina decided to concentrate her efforts on the development of the Russian romance song.

During the first concert, the club members will show the viewers where Alexander Pushkin’s inspiration came from – they are going to perform romance songs, opera arias and folk songs on the port’s poems. The readers are going to recite well-known works of Pushkin.

Special guests of the event will be soloists of the Moscow Pokrov ensemble. The performers of the renowned group will be in Canada on the days of the concert by a happy coincidence - they will come to perform with the Montreal classical choir. The Pokrov soloists themselves offered to perform at the evening of the Russian romance song.

According to Levina, the club will be uniting representatives of different nations and countries around the Russian romance song. The club was considering the inclusion of Russian Romance Song nomination in the program of the prestigious musical Jeunesse musicale contest, which was held in Montreal, or organizing a separate festival of romance song in Canada.
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