The music for the assembly hall (“After (Post)”, premiere)
One of the last musical events of the past year was the world premiere of the composition "After" (Post) by Vladimir Gorlinsky. The new piece turned out to be both daring and traditional. Gorlinsky's work was commissioned by the V-A-C Foundation, which gratifyingly joined the narrow circle of domestic institutions that issue orders to contemporary Russian composers. No less important is the fact that the premiere took place at the GES-2 House of Culture, a site that opened a little over a year ago and seemed to have been created for the sake of such projects. The assembly hall of......