KREMLIN ORCHESTRA PLAYS CLASSICS FOR ALL-NIGHTERS

MOSCOW, May 19 (RIA Novosti) - Classics For All-nighters concerts were a tremendous success in 2004. The admiration of the audience inspired head of the Kremlin chamber Mikhail Rakhlevsky orchestra to play new concerts. The concert hall of the Gnesins Russian Music Academy is hosting late concerts from May 13 to 27. The events will start at 22.30, reports the web site afisha.mail.ru.

Mikhail Rakhlevsky is a brilliant musician. Being committed to academic principles, he is fond of surprises. New concerts of the Kremlin orchestra are not an exception.

The series opened with musical jokes and parodies under the motto "Friday the 13th: Smile!" on May 13. On May 16, the orchestra performed compositions by Wolf, Popper, Rostropovich and Bartok. Slovak musician Eugen Prochac played a cello solo.

The May 19 concert is entitled "Spanish Nights." Guitarist Andrei Garin and the Kremlin orchestra will play music by Turina and Boccerini.

On May 23, the program "Let's Go to the Movies" will include works by Nino Rota and John Corigliano.

The final concert (May 27) will include compositions by Joseph and Michael Haydn. Emmanuel Borok (USA) and Fyodor Stroganov will play violin and harpsichord solos.