The musical and choreographic performance “Pushkin and the Kalmyk Woman” is a project created in memory of the legacy of the great poet.
The poet’s journey to the Caucasus passed through the Kalmyk steppes. Poetic memories of this have become the best gratitude to the entire Kalmyk people. One day, staying in the “nomadic caravan”, the great poet met a young Kalmyk woman. Admiring the wild beauty of the steppe, Pushkin wrote a message to the “Kalmyk Woman.”
The musical and choreographic performance “Pushkin and the Kalmyk Woman” is set to the music of two great composers of his time: Georgy Sviridov, a Soviet and Russian composer, People’s Artist of the USSR, Hero of Socialist Labor, winner of the Lenin and State Prizes, and Peter Chonkushov– the first professional composer of Kalmykia, Honored artist of the KASSR, Honored Artist of the RSFSR.
The program “Pushkin and the Kalmyk Girl”
(Bolero. Spain)
- Maurice Ravel – Bolero “The Evolution of Dance”
- Paco de Lucía Spanish Dance
- The Era Group Chinese fan dance
- Georges Bizet—Rodion Shchedrin Monologue from the ballet CARMEN
- Issac Albeniz “Catalan Capriccio” Performed by the Orchestra
- Mikhail Glinka “Aragonese hota”
- Johann Strauss “Persian Dance” Performed by Tatiana Davaeva
- Sergey Prokofiev “Pushkin Waltz” Is performed by the Orchestra.
(Pushkin and Kalmyk)
- Georgy Sviridov “Ball in honor of the Empress of Russia”
- Georgy Sviridov “Troika”
- Peter Chonkushov “Bamb tsetsg”
- Peter Chonkushov “Steppe sketches” by Haughton
- Georgy Sviridov “The Last Ball“
