18.09.2024
The Singing Pillars music festival has been held in Krasnoyarsk for three years at this point. This season, the Bobrovy Log Funpark's stage welcomed the musicians of the Harbin Symphony Orchestra to perform Music in the Mountains in tandem with the Krasnoyarsk Chamber Orchestra. The performance was presented by the Asia-Siberia-Europe music festival.
Those attending had the opportunity to listen to the rendition of to the works of Li Huanzhi and Dmitri Shostakovich by the musicians conducted by maestro Lin Tao for free in one of the most picturesque places of the regional centre. The virtuoso musician Zhang Haitao captivated the audience with his performance on the ancient wind instrument "suona", who also played an excerpt from the popular Soviet song "Katyusha".
— This great celebration that united us all together in such a wonderful corner of nature has every chance to become historic. It's a unique concert that took place here today. I sincerely wish all of us musical pleasure and many similar events that will leave a joyful mark in everyone's heart, – said the Head of the Main Department of Culture Lyubov Sakharova.
That day, the Bobrovy Log Funpark was divided into three stages: Song of the Pillars, Rhythm of the Pillars, and Pillar of Traditions. The main stage offered the guests of the festival classical works and modern compositions performed by various musicians. Local folk groups from the Sverdlovsky Palace of Culture performed on the Rhythm of the Pillars stage. At the third location, Pillar of Traditions, artists entertained the audience with guitar poetry.
Theme-appropriate interactive locations from various organizations of the district also worked for the guests of the festival. Everyone attending could create a small souvenir with their own hands, participate in quizzes, take a photo as a keepsake, get their face painted, play giant Jenga and even get cotton candy as a gift. The highlight among the sites was the location of Eastern culture: here everyone could join a tea ceremony, practice qigong, study Ba Zi astrology, the art of calligraphy, get a forecast for the future, learn the secrets of kung fu and get acquainted with the secrets of the national cuisine of China.