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Friday, March 07, 2014

ARTS COUNCIL OF MONGOLIA Percussion Ensemble performs Compositions -2014

The Percussion Ensemble of the Music and Dance College is organizing a concert entitled Compositions 2014, which will be performed March 14th and 15th at 6 p.m. at the State Philharmonic. The Music and Dance Colleges Percussion Ensemble named after S. Gonchigsumlaa was first started in 1985. The Ensemble was awarded the Silver Tree at the 2010 music festival and in 2012, music teacher B.Zorig was awarded the Entrepreneur 2012 Prize by the Mongolian National Culture and Arts Division. In 2012, the Ensemble consisting of 18 talented young performers and their teacher participated in the 10th UNESCO Childrens Performing Arts Festival of East Asia in the Silver Swallow pavilion. The Percussion Ensemble held a Compositions concert annually for the last seven years, beginning in 2007. The performance consists of 14 pieces of world and national classical music; and during the first act, pieces are performed from world-famous artists like H.Zimmer, R.Shchedrin J.Collins, K.Abe, L.Schifrin, P.Peti and H.Berlioz while the second act includes pieces by Mongolian musicians G.Birvaa, S.Gonchigsumlaa J.Sharaa, Ts.Sukhbaatar and B. Zorigt as well as new compositions.

Stories being staged at the Black Box Theatre

The Black Box Theatre is inviting theatre lovers to enjoy Chairs play by famous French writer Ejyen Ionyesko and In a Grove, a short play by famous Japanese writer Ryunosuke Akutagawa. Mongolian theater director S.Myagmar and Russian theater director Oleg Yumov will conduct the 20th Centurys most famous absurd drama Chairs on the Black Box Theatres stage. Famous French writer Ejyen Ionyesko created the play for the Absurd Theater in 1951. Although there are many characters invisible to audiences, there are only three visible characters in the play; a 95-year old man, 94-year old woman and about a 50-year old orator. The stage is full of sand and water. In this remote place, these two old people were left. Nobody comes, nobody misses them, and there is no one except them. The surrounding environment becomes faded, withered, and shrinks into the sand. The old couple welcomes guests they waited for their whole life. Chairs on the stages appear to lift up. In further scenes, this absurd play becomes harder to understand. Paralleling with tragicomic scenes, along comes a King, but his chair is made of iron for torture. As a result, a deaf-mute orator comes in. Are they showing us our present life? On March 8, Chairs will be performed in Mongolian language. Mans love, a play by D.Bogoslavsky created a sensation in Russia. The stage play shows a village beyond a river. Investigator Turuu searches for missed Bold. The play starts with a scene where Zulaa, the wife of missed Bold, is being questioned. Zulaa says she doesnt know, but is very distressed. Thinking that Bold will never come back, Turuu who has loved Zulaa from his young age, asked Zulaa to marry him. The main scene of the play starts when the ghost of Bold comes to the couple. All things then heat up. The loves of men are different, but

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have same fate. Is it for loving or killing each other? Oh poor love Mans love will be performed in Mongolian language on March15. In a Grove, is a short story by

Ryunosuke Akutagawa, which first appeared in Japanese literature in January 1922. The play is an early modernist story, blending the modernist search for identity with themes from historic Japanese literature. In a Grove presents three varying accounts of a murder victim whose corpse was found in a forest. Each section simultaneously clarifies and obfuscates what the reader knows about the murder, eventually creating a complex and contradictory vision of events that brings into question humanitys ability or willingness to perceive and transmit objective truth. On March 22, this famous Japanese story will be performed in Mongolian language for the first time in history. The play was translated into Mongolian by B.Bataa and the music will be conducted by S.Myagmar (director and artist of Black Box Theatre, Mongolia) and Oleg Yumov, (director of Buryatia, Russia). The Black Box Theatre successfully presented the play in November 2013 and the season continues from February every weekend. We hope you enjoy this world famous story. For more information please visit www.facebook.com/blackboxmongol. Ticket price: USD20,000 / sale of entrance tickets on day /Contact : 88013418

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