Nursery plants in seats during a rehearsal at the Gran Teatre del Liceu in Barcelona, Spain. The opera is reopening its doors with a concert for plants to raise awareness about the importance of an audience after the lockdown. Photo: Nacho Doce/Reuters.
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The above picture, released by North Korea’s Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) on April 2, 2018 and taken on April 1, 2018 shows North Korean leader Kim Jong-un (centre left) speaking to South Korean performers as his wife Ri Sol-ju (far left) and South Korea’s Minister of Culture, Sports and Tourism Do Jong-hwan (centre right) look on, after a concert by South Korean musicians at the 1,500-seat East Pyongyang Grand Theatre in Pyongyang, North Korea. Photo: AFP/KCNA via KNS.
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Kim Jong-un is the first North Korean leader to publicly attend a performance by South Korean artists in Pyongyang and was “particularly interested” in Red Velvet, a K-pop girl band. Photos: AFP/KCNA via KNS.
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And finally, here are Kim Jong-un (back, centre) and his wife Ri Sol-ju (second row, sixth from left) posing with South Korean musicians after their performance in the East Pyongyang Grand Theatre in Pyongyang, North Korea. Photo: AFP/KCNA via KNS/Getty Images.
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The Orchestra Regionale Toscana (ORT) Foundation will celebrate the 72nd Anniversary of Italy’s Liberation Day with a free concert performing Giorgio Battistelli’s Experimentum Mundi symphony at the Teatro Verdi in Florence, starting at 21,00. Free entrance until the seats are exhausted. Download invitation letter.
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The Rolling Stones’ first ever concert in Cuba on March 25, 2016. “This shot was taken before it started, where thousands of kids and young people were waiting at the huge open venue, just dancing and having fun in the field. Everyone was excited, and some kids were throwing each other up in the air and catching each other”, says the photographer. Photo: Joe Raedle/Getty Images.
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As reported by TV Channel “Saint Petersburg”, chess Grandmaster Mark Evgenievich Taimanov was died last night in Saint Petersburg, Russia, at the age of 90.
Taimanov was born February 7, 1926 in Kharkhiv, then Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic, to Jewish parents. His mother, a piano teacher, introduced him to music. His family moved to Saint Petersburg (them renamed Leningrad) when he was 6 months old. He studied and practised chess at the Leningrad Palace of Pioneers, and music at the the Leningrad State Conservatoire named after Rimsky-Korsakov. In fact, he also was well-known as a top concert pianist in the Soviet Union. With his first wife, Lyubov Aleksandrovna Bruk, he formed a piano duo, some of whose recordings were included in the Philips and Steinway series Great Pianists of the 20th Century. Taimanov is unjustly remembered for his 6–0 loss to Robert James “Bobby” Fischer in the 1971 World Championship Candidates match. However, few players have beaten six World Champions (Mikhail Moiseyevich Botvinnik, Vasily Vasilyevich Smyslov, Mikhail Nechemevich Tal, Tigran Vartanovich Petrosian, Boris Vasilievich Spassky, and Anatoly Yevgenyevich Karpov) as he has. |
Mark Evgenievich Taimanov (left) and Boris Vasilievich Spassky (right) were habitués of the Leningrad Palace of Pioneers. Photo: eg.ru.
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Svalbard, Norway: Pianist Ludovico Einaudi performs in the Arctic Ocean as part of a Greenpeace campaign calling for its protection. Photo: Pedro Armestre.
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