Aigul MYRZATAI
ALMATY, Nov 8
(THE GLOBE)
For Kazakhstanis, pianist Zhanya Aubakirova�s name is synonymous with music, and the audience at the November 4th concert held at the conservatory�s Big Hall to present German pianos, revealed only one facet of the activity of the rector of Almaty Kurmangazy�s conservatory, the People�s Artist Zhanya Aubakirova.
The history of the Almaty conservatory, like human life, is full of successes and failures. Unlike the Moscow conservatory, where Chaikovsky and Taneev greeted each other taking off their hats, or Skryabin and Glazunov, Neigauz and Richter, Leonid Kogan and David Oistrach went along corridors covered by rich carpets, the Almaty conservatory has neither a picturesque history nor stable traditions.
For a small period the Kurmangazy conservatory gave us talented musicians and composers. Most of them work in the world�s orchestras or teach in the best European universities. Such achievements are a credit to teachers and the top management of the conservatory. When Gaziza Zhubanova headed the Almaty conservatory, it flourished. The conservatory found strong teachers on all subjects. Those teachers did more than teach notes and theory, they widened their students� concept of music and its place in our lives.
Dyusen Kaseinov followed Gaziza Zhubanova as rector. He also gave violin lessons. His negligence as a teacher also influenced his activity as a rector. The teachers� team gradually lost its unity and sense of purpose. Many teachers left the conservatory. The library was getting poorer, the opera studio closed. The conservatory was getting damp, both literally and figuratively.
Zhanya Aubakirova took over an empty and unheated conservatory, sacked and deteriorating. No one else would have undertaken the If it were not she, someone else would not restore the building, as it was hardly possible to restore the palace from ruins.
The new rector says the Almaty conservatory is expanding its activities. One more adjoining building will be transferred to the conservatory, as it has been agreed with the city mayor Mr. Khrapunov. Twenty-five of the best German pianos will be the grace the conservatory. Unlike other Almaty universities, the conservatory pays significant attention to musical science. The �New Music Newspaper� which was not published for a long time due to financial problems has appeared again.
To be a musician is one thing. To be a rector another. Possibly, only individuals completely devoted to their people and state can succeed. When the great Russian thinker Trubetskoi, rector of Lomonosov Moscow State University (MSU) stood at the door of the building during the revolt in 1905 asking students not to take part in it, he cared for their lives. He did not want Russia to lose a great scientist or thinker. Trubetskoi died sitting in his study, as he devoted all his life to both science and MSU.
Speaking of a rector and scientist as one person, we may remember the great Russian mathematician Lobachevsky, whose name is associated with non-Euclidian geometry. He spent forty years in the Kazan University as a student, teacher, professor and rector. There he established and scientifically proved �the theorem on parallels�. Lobachevsky did his best to make the university one of the best in Russia. He did it. At present the Kazan university considered one of the best in the country with strong traditions and principles.
When Gaziza Zhubanova took over a nearly defunct conservatory many thought the woman rector would fail quickly. Yet sometimes we intuitively know that special situations require a woman�s endurance. Only the desire to create a family atmosphere may complete the restoration of �the palace from ruins� and impart it with harmony.
Aigul MYRZATAI
ALMATY, Nov 8
(THE GLOBE)
The opera festival was an important event for Kazakhstan. Artists from some CIS countries, including Russia, came to the festival. Everything would have been fine, if there had not been one �but�. For two days the festival held in the Republican Palace. You should be too musically �educated� as Mr. Mamashev, the former Minister of Culture, who has nothing to do with culture, and who is presently the main organiser of this cultural event in Almaty, to use this �privileged� palace suitable only for �Tamasha�, Alla Pugacheva, or other �recognised� showmen, for the opera festival. As the chairman of the Fund on Support of Culture Mr. Mamashev does not know the elementary music theory, the high opera art transformed to a show. The absence of elementary acoustics and overtone harmony caused headache from oversaturated sound waves accompanied by solo.
In addition I would like to add that being the Minister Mr. Mamashev initiated the ballyhoo with the reconstruction of the Opera Theatre, which is still continuing. The disputable status of the Abai�s Theatre arouses similar eternal moral questions: �Who is right? Who is guilty?�
Aigul MYRZATAI
ALMATY, Nov 8
(THE GLOBE)
The international seminar devoted to the problem of interrelations between children and mass media, which completed on November 6 in Almaty, aroused especial interest of psychologists and teachers, as well as of young parents, who are not indifferent to their children�s fate.
The information daily received by the person, is mainly through mass media. Today Tele- and radio-broadcasting, press are the main source of the information for both the child and the parent. When the older generation takes whatever it is interested in and does not fill its brains with negative emotions, the child �eats� everything whatever he given. That is why the child often perceives �positive� as �negative� information; and vice versa. �Negative� information seems more interesting and curious for the child, as it does not make the child think and decide himself. Hence, the intellectual level of children reduced, as well as arouses dangerous children�s aggression.
The main objective of the international seminar �Mass media and children� was to find a correct way of all mass media�s work the young generation. In the result of the seminar the declaration on humane-personal approach to children with the main postulates (to believe in child�s abilities, and to reveal his nature) approved. These are the main tasks to be taken into consideration by the mass media:
- healthy physical and psychical development of children;
- protection of children from pornography and narcotics;
- propaganda of common moral values.
Participants of the seminar approved an important point concerning operations of mass media. It is the responsibility of each journalist for published material and establishment of an independent public expert commission to censor mass media.
The Tengi-Umai Fund headed by Mr. Filatov and �Detsky mir� magazine published by the Fund, were organisers of �Mass media and children�. SOROS-KAZAKHSTAN sponsored this event important for the country.
November 9, 1935 United Mine Workers president John L. Lewis and other labor leaders formed the Committee for Industrial Organization.
November 9, 1938 Nazis looted and burned synagogues as well as Jewish-owned stores and houses in Germany and Austria in what became known as �Kristallnacht.�
November 9, 1963 twin disasters struck Japan as some 450 miners were killed in a coal-dust explosion, and 160 people died in a train crash.
November 9, 1986 Israel revealed it was holding Mordechai Vanunu, a former nuclear technician who�d vanished after providing information to a British newspaper about Israel�s nuclear weapons program. (Vanunu was convicted of treason and sentenced to 18 years in prison.)
November 10, 1989 Workers began punching a hole in the Berlin Wall, a day after East Germany abolished its border restrictions.
November 11, 1918 fighting in World War One came to an end with the signing of an armistice between the Allies and Germany.
November 11, 1965 Rhodesia proclaimed its independence from Britain.
November 11, 1966 �Gemini 12� blasted off from Cape Kennedy, Florida, with astronauts James A. Lovell and Edwin �Buzz� Aldrin Junior aboard.
The Kosteyev State National Museum. Exhibition of S. Kalmykov, I. Itkind, and V. Eifert�s works, and Rudolf Nuriev�s painting.
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