Together with his team, he has attended more than a hundred festivals, including the minsk jazz festival, beloved by many music lovers in belarus. Unfortunately, the maestra left this world, but his creative legacy continues to live on. Its been 34 years now. Minsk jazz is a bright event in the cultural life of the belarusian capital. Today the artistic director and chief conductor of the orchestra is maxim rasokha, laureate of international competitions, scholarship recipient of the special fund of the president of the republic of belarus for the support of talented youth. Maxim nikolaevich, hello, good afternoon, its no secret that jazz is far from slavic music. But today they know about it and play it all over the world, and there is even an opinion that there are roots of belarusian jazz, so tell us, what was the path of jazz to our country . The path of jazz is unique in our country, because no one imagined that it could appear, considering the soviet union, how would everything be like this here . More academic music and nothing foreign seemed to be very welcome, but the fact is that already when, lets say, the beginning of the war happened in 309, and when. Hitlers germany captured part of poland, many polish musicians, artists, singers , cultural figures, mostly they were of jewish nationality, naturally, they were persecuted, they escaped, where did they go, they went, as they say, to the east, because they could escape, just the city of belvostok, at that time it turned out to be soviet the city, and there such a large number of musicians accumulated that several orchestras were created, and one of these orchestras was led by. Zazadsky, this orchestra that he created became the prototype of the first state Jazz Orchestra of the bssr, and the famous trumpeter eddie was invited to lead this orchestra rosner, who later also became an honored artist of the bssr, so in fact this orchestra of emigrants existed for seven years from 1940 to the fortyseventh year existed on our territory, the period wartime, the great patriotic war, he traveled, lived on the train, and accordingly all the musicians, they had no housing, it was a separate train, a train that traveled throughout the soviet union, performed both in tlu and in advanced positions, for fighters, supporting their morale, so well, this is a significant event for us and i want to say that even as soon as the city of gomel, the first belarusian city, was liberated, the orchestra gave a series of concerts in the liberated city in ruins, then there was the city of minsk in the city in the building opera house, by the way there were a lot of concerts, jazz is not just a stage jazz for us. This is the orchestra that did a great job during the great patriotic war and indeed this is our national music, and what is most interesting is that compositions were created, in addition to world ones, which are performed by this group, compositions were also created by edi rosner, yuri belzatsky and many others belorsky composers, we were lucky that we found in the archives a work called jazz in the night, it dates back to 1940, then in fact, this is one of the first works from the repertoire of this orchestra and we perform them. With great pleasure and tell the public that this is ours, this is our heritage, for almost 80 years, last year we gave a whole big concert as part of the belarusian jazz evening at naratush, we gave an anthology of belarusian jazz, where starting from the forties, here was the composer yuri belzatsky rosner, then there was evgeny grishman, evgeny glebov, igor luchenok, vladimir olovnikov, and in fact the whole an anthology of belarusian jazz from creation. To our times was heard from the stage where we talked about what it was, that we should be proud of it, that many people came up to us and said, but we didnt know that we have such a rich history since the forties, so we were its very nice that we also perform an educational function. Jazz certainly has its listeners all over the world, and this musical direction has developed and continues to develop. Styles such as blues, souul, swing and so on. Regarding our belarusian listeners, what style do they perceive . Who is your main audience . Firstly, of course, to listen to jazz, you need to love it, just like anyone else. Music, especially since there is jazz that is more accessible, like swing, and there is jazz, which is very complex, it is so for a sophisticated audience that must be prepared, that understands jazz, we of course perform music that is more accessible to people, so that people enjoy it from the music, didnt sit in tension that there was something on stage now something crazy is happening, some kind of accessible swing stuff, especially in the forties and fifties from the repertoire of the glen miller orchestra, duke ellington, that is, those are already luminaries, those meters are recognized, so like those compositions that we play are basically here are compositions from the repertoire of these great artists. Our audience, in principle, loves jazz, we watch it because, firstly, we have several projects annually, this is minsk jazz, three concerts, every day in a row, three different jazz concerts in lets just say this year there were very interesting three diverse multigenre events, the first concert was an exception to instrumental music, called a jazz kaleidoscope, the second concert was dedicated to youth in jazz, called where. Young artists, our talented ones, they were mostly girls, by the way, we sang to the orchestra, and we dedicated the third concert to mikhailovich finberg and the orchestra, we called it a concert of a personality, an orchestra of a legend, you named the worlds outstanding jazzmen, you probably know the belarusian ones too jazzmen, do we know about them . Well, i want to say, firstly, our team, the National AcademicConcert Orchestra. Firstly, this is a group, we are talking about a jazz group, about the big band of this group, then this is the best group of our country, the legislator of jazz music, pop jazz its true, here are the best musicians performing music in this style, this is an excellent guitarist, this is sergey antishin, honored artist of belarus, aleksandar kolinovsky bass guitar, also honored artist of belarus, vadim chaikov, our wonderful drummer is also honored, these are honored people of our country, igor borankovsky is simply phenomenal. Plus our brass players, who know how to improvise, not every performer knows how to play improvisation, but with us he can do it. And what are the distinctive features of belarusian jazz . There was such a person as evgeny grishman, he worked for 5 years in the radio orchestra, under the direction of boris raisky. We know that boris arajski came from china and brought jazz here too, shanghai jazz, as they called it, they are in the circus i was a conductor and thats it. And just evgeny grishman, he was a flittist and arranger, over the course of 5 years he created a large series. On belarusian themes, on the theme of belarusian folk songs, dances, that is, in fact, this is probably the most important thing, bach also relied on his german folklore, all composers in their work, this is their national highlight in the fact that this is folklore or near folklore , evgeny glebov did the same, he wrote both on belarusian folk themes, and created his own pseudo belarusian folk themes, everyone thought that this is a folk theme, but it was the authors music, his own, the authors melody. Therefore, it is very important in National Jazz this is jazz based on national roots, this is very important, first of all, and secondly , what is clear is that there is german jazz, there is american jazz, there is russian jazz, there has already been a century of russian jazz once was noted, but we seem to have our own special jazz, it is based on the traditions of both european and russian jazz, in combination, as always, our entire classical school, with the Composer School this is a combination of the west and the east, that is, we are right in the middle geographically. These influences have great significance on us, thats why our jazz is such a synthesis of different jazz directions, eras, and of course this is our value, that we can do this and that. And your big band has worked and continues to work only with live sound without the use of a soundtrack. Tell us, what is the magic of live sound . Film, cassette, when we insert it, it goes as it is, it, we know that now this will happen, but it will, and in a minute it will sound like this. Especially if you can listen to it several times, we are already accustomed to this sound; there is already a standard in our heads, when performed by a live orchestra there is no standard, it seems to be there, but today i am in such a mood, i want it differently, i can slow down the tempo take, i can ask the musician while playing to just play with his hands more quietly, softly, that is, i give out the emotion, yes, that is, if there is no conductor, the orchestra can play unconditionally, but it will be just music, like in disk, here it comes, what it is is what it is , in the process there is a conductor, what is a conductor for, to create a process is no longer a result, a result, yes, here it already is , we have done everything, they can play, but to achieve what you want, when the concert begins, the most interesting thing, for example, im in this mood, right . That is, the rehearsal process and the heartbeat, the pulse is one thing, its so even, at a concert everything really clears up, somewhere the tempos are different, you already catch Something Different you caught the character and you are in the process of performing, at the moment of performing a concert, you get this from them, you ask them to show it, just like that, they dont expect it, because they dont, well, it s like we learned it, here everything is completely different, so of course , Live Performance, this is the magic when you launch an emotion into the orchestra and the orchestra gives it to the listeners, it is important to bewitch so that the emotion goes there, and we finish playing, and they still have euphoria, this is a Live Performance for me, what do you think are the main components of a successful presentation . Firstly, the selection of the repertoire, this is very important, not just the selection of the repertoire, but its arrangement into a Concert Program , yes, that is, for example, 20 numbers need to be arranged so that it is interesting, and not just some kind of confusion, firstly secondly, preparation for the concert, it is clear that the musician has a note written, so he plays as it is written. And if you ask him here to be softer, here louder, and here more carefully, and here to show this new tidy up, that is, he records it all with a pencil, at a concert in in principle, we already know that everything will happen to them now, so we bring this out to our listeners, so it is very important to get the musicians to emphasize that music, in principle, already exists, but here is the melody, there is a development of the melody and the like, its very important to emphasize this, to add something of your own, your vision, how i would like it to sound like this. That i want, for example , Chimney Sweeps to play this way, and trumpet players here to play differently, this is a Creative Process of preparation, when everything is ready, you know how cake, success is when its delicious, i say, the music should always be delicious , its like absolute cooking, that means we come to a restaurant, take the menu and see some picture of the dish, we call the waiter, he says, whats here . It would be, and he says, here it is , here it is, whipped cream, theres a cherry on top, weve already imagined a fantasy that works, as if bring it, they bring us this dish, here we imagined two will be the other, or vice versa , really delicious, that is, the music is the same, that is, at concerts i say, like a waiter, whats going to happen now, but because, by the way, by the way, and in general , this thing is such a genius, and then its a game, its very important for me to reinforce it, so that people say yes, its very tasty, the music should be tasty, musicians true masters of improvisation, an honored team over. The National AcademicConcert Orchestra of belarus named after Mikhail Finberg annually presents jazz fans with a wide palette of world classics of jazz music, introduces the best composers and performers of this musical directions. If you want to feel at least for a moment the beauty and grandeur of this elite music, then we invite you to attend events such as the now traditional minsk jazz festival in turn, you will receive a real jazz cocktail of enchanting rhythms, bright melodies, virtuosic improvisation and of course, harmony. Jazz music is strong in the present moment, it does not have any script, it is a dialogue and the musicians make a decision about what emotions to share with listeners in a matter of minutes. A split second based on what we feel right now, you and i still have to enjoy hundreds of wonderful concerts of bold experiments, and witness. The emergence of new styles, expand your musical horizons, be in the present moment, follow fashion trends in cultural life our country, alina nevoina was with you, remember, being cultural is fashionable, see you in a week, until new cultural meetings. It was expected that the 141st october session could put an end to the issue of the participation of belarusians at the olympics in paris. Still, the end of the year is approaching, its high time to plan the next season, but in mumbai there was only rhetoric without any specifics, but the whole industry cannot remain in limbo, since last week at a joint Forum Belarus and russia actually reacted to a waitandsee attitude thomas bach, they discussed modern sport, its innovations and prospects, they agreed that closer integration in most team sports is ahead, but an invitation to paris and belarus and. We are still waiting, today, despite the fact that sanctions have been imposed on our sport and the sport of the russian federation, we continue to work today, regardless of these sanctions, our athletes will have practice, will have the opportunity for various kinds competitions, levels to engage in, perform, win and prepare, i think that sooner or later, all these people who today head these International Olympic committees, who. Who were, spoke from the rostrum today, today sport should be a unifying force, but not on the contrary, dividing countries, peoples, athletes, and so on. This is sportskadr, hello, look at the program today. We lack performing skills in completion. Torpeda and neman slowed each other down in the fight for medals. To the delight of dynamo minsk, they are those people who, unfortunately, do not make decisions themselves, how sanctions work, Vladimir Konoplev gave a comprehensive example of the dependence of International Federations on the mock, the opponent knocked them out of the reception, unforced errors, in principle they lost easily, the belarusian volleyball players had a bad start in the russian championships, we are figuring out why some things worked out and others didnt, there is still time to draw certain conclusions and move on. They returned to the world cup stages and immediately swam to the podium, but they were not allowed there. Impression in a sports frame. Torpedo belas and neman are competing for championship medals, which means european competitions, where good money is paid, and very good money is paid in the champions league, and grodno is aiming there. There are five rounds until the end of the championship, there is virtually no time to correct mistakes, but in last friday, these two clubs shared three points between themselves and absolutely. There could be no compromises. The clubs are headed by two hot men, who are often fined and sent to watch football from the stands. Both neman and torpeda conceded the least amount of goals in the championship. All this leads me to the fact that vzhodins game itself did not promise a certain aesthetics, but had the highest emotional intensity. Our correspondent Alexander Yakubovsky felt it, working from the edge. Both clubs torpedo belas and neman are on an international break. The automakers defeated naftan , and the grodno team belshina, by the way, the trio from grodno was invited by carlos alos ferrer to the main team of the country, and two draws with the leaders of our group, the romanians and the swiss, were a worthy result of the october training camp. These are results that speak first of all about the potential of our team, our guys, and everyone could see that they can, and i hope that they can. And believe in yourself even more, the current Coaching Staff has done a great job, and we see it, as they say, with the naked eye, but its even more noticeable when you you observe this with your own eyes in the training process, including in theoretical classes, so this is the result of excellent work and i. Am sure that it will get better, and of course, we all want victories, but not all at once, everything has to come gradually, we are grateful to the way he builds this even methodical work on planning the training camp, analyzing the training camp, and he regularly notes that he wants to get to know as many guys as possible, he has on his pencil lets say, not 23 football players, but almost 50, uh, so in in this regard, i hope that his passion will really burn , and his desire to improve our team will only multiply, we havent won for 2 years, everyone was waiting for at least something, now we are playing in a draw with switzerland, in a goal draw, we score three, and we are upset that we are playing in a draw with such a team, which , excuse me, is fifteenth in the ranking, fifa, therefore seventh in the uefa ranking, so here we should expect something, or demand something it is, of course, very difficult to do more here now, i hope that they will take this burden off themselves, inspired by the energy that the Coaching Staff, in particular carlos, charges them with, Egor Parkhomenko again received a call to the national team, but so far the twentyyearold defender of neman has not made his debut for the white krylov, maybe he sees something, some potential, lets see for the future is considering, it will be seen further, but from the outside, but the emotions were very, very strong, well, when in the 88th minute it was 1 3 in our favor, we, to be honest, already celebrated a little, even perhaps for a minute, and then it happened