May 24 is a holiday on Red Square. V.R
On May 24, a grandiose choral concert dedicated to the Day of Slavic Literature and Culture was held on Red Square. More than a dozen children's choirs from the capital took part in it.
This evening, Moscow professional, educational and amateur choral groups united into a huge combined composition on the main square of Russia to perform popularly beloved songs of the 19th-20th centuries: folk (“Oh, you are a wide steppe”), military (“Katyusha”, “We one victory is needed”, “Farewell of the Slavic woman”), children’s songs (“Sunny Circle”, “It’s fun to walk together”, “There is nothing better in the world”), songs of the Soviet period (“I love you life”, “Nadezhda”, “I I’m walking around Moscow”). Suffice it to say that such cultural events have not taken place in Russia for several decades. A huge choir of two thousand, located on a stage specially constructed for the occasion, united 27 groups, including: Choir of the Academic Music College at the Moscow State Conservatory. P.I. Tchaikovsky, State Academic Choir of Russia named after. A.A. Yurlova, State Academic Russian Choir named after A.V. Sveshnikova, Moscow male chamber choir V.M. Rybin, Moscow State Academic Chamber Choir conducted by Vladimir Minin, Choir of the Sretensky Monastery, Choir of the Song and Dance Ensemble of the Military Space Defense Forces, Patriarchal Choir of the Cathedral of Christ the Savior, Children and Youth Choir of the Union of Composers of Russia "Preobrazhenie", Big Children's Choir named after V. .WITH. Popov, Concert Choir of the Children's Musical and Choral School "Joy", Children's Choir "Preobrazhenie" of the Union of Composers of Russia, and many others. Instrumental support for the huge choral composition was provided by two orchestras (wind and symphony) of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation under the direction of the chief military conductor of Russia, Honored Artist of the Russian Federation, Lieutenant General Valery Khalilov.
The concert, called “Russia Sings. Our Favorite Songs” was dedicated to the Day of Slavic Literature and Culture. Every year on this day, May 24, the memory of Saints Equal-to-the-Apostles Cyril and Methodius, educators who created the Slavic alphabet and translated the Bible into Slavic, is honored. The Day of Slavic Literature and Culture is the only state-church holiday in Russia. This is not just a tribute to the memory of the founders of Slavic writing, but also a symbol of the unity of the Slavic peoples, their inextricable historical connection and common cultural heritage. The holiday was revived in Russia in 1986, and in 1991 it acquired state status. The Day of Great Enlighteners annually brings together scientists, writers and cultural figures from Russia, Belarus, Bulgaria, Macedonia and other countries. Each year a new capital was chosen to host the main celebrations. Since 2010, Moscow has become the center of festive celebrations.
The organizers of the holiday on Red Square this year were the Russian Orthodox Church, the Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation and the Moscow Government.
“On this cloudy festive evening, we are beginning, perhaps, a wonderful tradition - to gather together on Red Square to sing,” the Primate of the Russian Orthodox Church, Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus' Kirill, addressed those gathered with a welcoming speech. - A song, like nothing else, unites people, and every person knows this well. When relatives and close people meet, the feast is often accompanied by a song. When soldiers go into battle, they also sing. We know that a song raises a person to military and labor feats, it mobilizes a person’s will, directs him to achieve his goal.
Today we celebrate the memory of Saints Equal-to-the-Apostles Cyril and Methodius, two outstanding people, educators who created our alphabet, grammar, who laid the foundation for the Slavic literary language, who stand at the origins of our culture. These are our ancestors who revealed world culture to the Russian people and all Slavs. It is remarkable that the first thing the brothers Cyril and Methodius did was translate it into Slavic and put the words of the Bible into this alphabet. This means that the origins of our culture are the highest spiritual ideals. And what then appeared - literature, poetry, including song poetry - all this, in the end, came from there... Many of you know that in the Church we also pray through song, we sing songs that we call chants. But many of you also know that sometimes a simple song becomes a prayer. Many people who have gone through difficult circumstances in their lives know this; people know this well.
Today I invite you all to sing, not just listen to wonderful music performed by wonderful choirs, but also sing together. Let's sing those songs that united our grandparents, fathers and mothers, brothers and sisters, and which today are able to unite us as one people. Congratulations on the holiday! Christ is Risen!" - concluded Patriarch Kirill.
The holiday of Russian song was conceived and carried out precisely as a national one - the choral groups located on the stage were echoed by the entire Red Square. To do this, the words of the songs were projected onto huge screens installed in front of the stage. The musical performance was completed by the powerful tutti of the “Glory” choir M.I. Glinka from the opera “A Life for the Tsar”, colored by festive fireworks that flashed in the evening sky, brightened after the rain.
For hundreds of concert participants and listeners, this action became an unexpected and generous gift.
Watch the photo report from the concert and the broadcast of the festive evening carried out by the Kultura TV channel!
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Every year on May 24, the Church commemorates and glorifies the holy Equal-to-the-Apostles brothers Cyril and Methodius, the creators of Slavic writing. On this day, many Slavic countries host festive concerts and events dedicated to this event.
According to the tradition that has developed over the past few years, on May 24 at 13:00 in Moscow, on Red Square, an all-Russian festive concert dedicated to the Day of Slavic Literature and Culture will take place.
At 13:00 (Moscow time) concerts will simultaneously begin in all regions of Russia from Vladivostok to Kaliningrad. The center of the celebrations will be Red Square; live broadcasts from Belgorod, Yekaterinburg and Nizhny Novgorod will complement the program of performances in Moscow.
The main idea of the holiday this year will be the theme of spiritual unity, the unity of the Slavic peoples and the veneration of the great cultural heritage. At the beginning of the concert entitled "I, you, he, she - together the whole country..." spiritual works by Kastalsky and Tchaikovsky, Prokofiev and Sviridov will be performed. Then popular songs by Soviet authors will be performed, including V. Basner, M. Blanter, G. Struve, V. Shainsky, A. Pakhmutova, A. Gladkov, I. Dunaevsky, D. Tukhmanov and others. In the final, Russian singer Polina Gagarina accompanied by the Great Moscow Combined Choir, which includes about 1,200 people this year, will present the song "Million voices ", with which she took second place in the LX song competition “Eurovision”.
35 children's and youth academic choirs will perform at the festive concert. Participants in the program will be the Great Children's Choir named after V.S. Popov Russian State Radio Company "Voice of Russia ", Academic Big Choir "Masters of Choral Singing" of the Russian State Musical Television and Radio Center, State Academic Choir named after A.A. Yurlova, State Academic Russian Choir named after A.V. Sveshnikov, Moscow Synodal Choir, Sretensky Monastery Choir, State Academic Symphony Chapel of Russia, as well as soloists of the Bolshoi Theater. The gala concert will end with the majestic patriotic anthem “ Hail" to music by M. Glinka from the opera “Ivan Susanin”.
Admission to the concert is free.
/ Tuesday, May 16, 2017 /Topics: Church Slavic writing
The All-Russian festive concert dedicated to the Day of Slavic Literature and Culture will take place on May 24, 2017 on Red Square in Moscow. This was reported by the press service of the Moscow Patriarchate.
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The event will open with a welcoming speech from His Holiness Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Rus'. . . . . . The gala concert will end with the majestic patriotic anthem “ Hail" to the music of Mikhail Glinka from the opera “Ivan Susanin”.. . . . .
The Day of Slavic Literature and Culture is dedicated to the Day of Remembrance of the Holy Equal-to-the-Apostles Brothers Cyril and Methodius. In Russia, the holiday has been celebrated annually since 1991. Since 2010, Moscow has become the center of festive celebrations.
MOSCOW, May 24. /TASS/. A combined choir of a thousand people opened a concert on Thursday on Red Square in honor of the Day of Slavic Literature and Culture. The song marathon on this day, according to an already established tradition, will unite all regions of Russia, as well as some other Slavic countries.
“We have been gathering for six years in a row. The holiday has outgrown its boundaries: today all of Russia, all 85 constituent entities of the Russian Federation, about one million, are singing with us,” noted Deputy Prime Minister of the Russian Federation Olga Golodets, addressing the audience. “The holiday unites all Slavic peoples and we are eternally grateful to the patriarch that he became the founder of a wonderful tradition,” she added.
Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus' Kirill also took the stage and congratulated all those gathered on the holiday - the Day of Saints Equal-to-the-Apostles Cyril and Methodius, educators of the Slavs. “It has become a wonderful tradition to gather on Red Square on this day to think a little about the origins of that wonderful huge path, dramatic and at the same time victorious, that the Slavic peoples, our Russian people, have traveled: from the origins of writing to the latest knowledge,” the patriarch said.
“We always need to remember our beginning: the parents who gave us life, remember the history of our country and, of course, we need to know the beginning of the culture of our culture. We recognize ourselves as a people, a single whole, when we are bonded by a common language, culture and common moral spiritual values. This is the basis on which the edifice of human life develops and is built,” he added.
Song Festival
The participants of the concert are the best performing groups in Russia - the "Masters of Choral Singing" choir of the Russian State Musical Television and Radio Center, the Popov Big Children's Choir, the Sretensky Monastery Choir, the Moscow Synodal Choir, the Pyatnitsky Folk Choir, the ensemble "Pesnyary", "Domisolka" and others. Together with them in the combined choir are student groups from the Moscow Conservatory, MEPhI, Moscow State University, MIIT, and Russian State University for the Humanities.
Several thousand spectators gathered on Vasilyevsky Spusk. Today they, together with a professional choir, sing their favorite songs of different generations, which are included in the concert program entitled “When my friends are with me!” Compositions of Russian sacred music, popular songs by Soviet authors, including A. Alexandrov, A. Babajanyan, A. Pakhmutova, I. Dunaevsky, E. Krylatov, and others, as well as famous Belarusian and Russian folk songs will be performed.
In a live broadcast from Krasnodar, the marching song of the Black Sea Cossacks “Unharness your horses, lads” will be sung by the State Academic Kuban Cossack Choir; from Bulgaria the Hymn to Saints Cyril and Methodius will be performed, and from Serbia a combined national choir will perform the song “Tamo Far Away”. The gala concert will end with the patriotic anthem “Glory” by Mikhail Glinka.
In Russia, the Day of Slavic Literature and Culture has been celebrated at the state level since 1863 - the 1000th anniversary of the creation of the Slavic alphabet by Cyril and Methodius. During the Soviet years they tried to revive it, and in 1991 the holiday was given state status.
On May 24, 2018, holiday programs in all regions of Russia, from Vladivostok to Kaliningrad, will begin at 13.00 Moscow time. The main celebration will take place on Red Square in Moscow. The event will open with a welcoming speech from His Holiness Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Rus'. During the concert there will be live broadcasts from Krasnodar, Serbia and Bulgaria.
The main idea of the holiday is the theme of spiritual unity, the unity of the Slavic peoples and the veneration of the great cultural heritage. In the Concert entitled “When my friends are with me!” works of Russian sacred music, popular songs by Soviet authors, including A. Alexandrov, A. Babajanyan, A. Pakhmutova, I. Dunaevsky, E. Ptichkin, E. Krylatov, E. Kolmanovsky, as well as famous Belarusian and Russian folk songs will be performed.
Dozens of children's and youth academic choirs will take part in the festive concert: Academic Big Choir “Masters of Choral Singing” of the Russian State Musical Television and Radio Center, Moscow Synodal Choir, Sretensky Monastery Choir, State Academic Russian Folk Choir named after M.E. Pyatnitsky, as well as VIA “PESNYARY”, ensemble “Domisolki”, soloists: Polina Shamaeva, Oscar Abdrazakov, Vasily Ladyuk, Bogdan Volkov, winner of the “Voice Children” show Rutger Garecht and many others.
Admission to the concert is free, reports the Ros-Registr website. You can easily get to Red Square from the metro stations: “Okhotny Ryad”, “Ploshchad Revolutsii”, “Teatralnaya”.
After arriving at one of the stations, you need to find a sign indicating the exit to the city to Manezhnaya Square. On the surface you need to focus on the large red building - the State Historical Museum. Red Square is located right behind the museum.
On May 24, Russia will celebrate the Day of Slavic Literature and Culture. At the press conference, the organizers explained how the celebrations would take place. According to tradition, Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Rus' will deliver a welcoming speech. Festive programs have been prepared in all regions of Russia, from Vladivostok to Kaliningrad. A large-scale concert will take place on Red Square. Dozens of children's and youth choirs will take part in it.
“We are for this holiday to become truly like this, including for families. Let someone come to Red Square, someone congratulate Kirill and Methodius on their name day - this is also part of the celebration, because a holiday that does not have a personal dimension is not a holiday, in my opinion,” emphasized the deputy chairman of the Synodal Department on the relationship of the Church with society and the media of the Moscow Patriarchate Vakhtang Kipshidze.
Today, May 24, 2018, in connection with the celebration of the Day of Slavic Literature and Culture, traffic will be blocked in the center of Moscow. A traditional concert dedicated to the holiday will take place on Red Square. A service will be held in the Cathedral of Christ the Savior in honor of the memory of Saints Cyril and Methodius, who invented the Slavic alphabet.
On May 24, 2018, traffic in the center of Moscow will traditionally be blocked in connection with the annual festive event dedicated to the Day of Literature and Culture.
Traffic restrictions are expected on the section of Ilyinka Street until 15:00. Representatives of the Information Center of the Transport Complex reported that travel will be prohibited from Birzhevaya to Red Square. Drivers are asked to take alternative routes.
Due to the celebration, visitors to the Moscow Kremlin will not be able to exit through the Spassky Gate. The Mausoleum of Vladimir Lenin and the necropolis near the Kremlin Wall will also be closed to visitors.
Festive concert on Red Square
On Thursday, May 24, 2018, residents and guests of Moscow will be able to attend a concert on Red Square dedicated to the Day of Slavic Literature and Culture. Compositions of Russian sacred music, popular songs by Soviet authors, as well as famous Belarusian and Russian folk songs will be performed at the gala event. This was reported on the website of the press service of the Patriarch of Moscow.
Today we also celebrate the Day of Equal-to-the-Apostles Cyril and Methodius, who are considered the founders of the Slavic alphabet and writing. In honor of the memory of these saints, a service will be held in the Cathedral of Christ the Savior.
The concert in the center of Moscow will traditionally begin at 13:00 on Red Square. The organizer of the festive events is the Russian Orthodox Church, the Moscow government, the Federal State Budgetary Institution "ROSCONCERT" and the Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation.
Festive events will take place in all regions of the country, but the main celebration will take place in the capital.
The concert, called “When my friends are with me,” will feature dozens of children’s and youth academic choirs: the Academic Big Choir “Masters of Choral Singing” of the Russian State Musical Television and Radio Center, the Moscow Synodal Choir, the Choir of the Sretensky Monastery, the State Academic Russian Folk Choir named after M. .E. Pyatnitsky, as well as VIA “PESNYARY” and others.
Modern celebration of the Day of Slavic Literature
In 1985, Slavic countries celebrated the 1,100th anniversary of the death of St. Methodius. For the first time, May 24 was declared a holiday in the USSR. Since 1991, all state and public organizations began to hold Days of Slavic Literature together with the Russian Orthodox Church.
Since the same year, the annual spiritual and cultural expedition “Slavic Movement” has traditionally been held in many Russian cities.
During the celebration, church services are held in the Assumption Cathedral of the Kremlin and other churches in Russia, religious processions, conferences, exhibitions and concerts.
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