Soviet and Russian violinist, lecturer and art critic Mikhail Kazinik spoke at a meeting of the Federation Council as part of the "Expert Time" format.
His story was dedicated to the place of culture in people's lives, the education of talented youth and the careful preservation of their spiritual principles.
The well-known art historian urged legislators to pay close attention to the issues of the nation's cultural development.
Key takeaways from Kazinik's speech:
1. Culture should come first in the Russian budget
If our country, when planning the budget, wrote “culture” as number one, then all other areas would automatically rise by many percent. One percent added for culture is the same as 15% for health or 25% for education. We have been convinced of this for a long time. Where culture is in second place, the first will have to pull out money for health care. Because people without culture get sick. Any country is great by what it has contributed to the world treasury of civilizations, and not by how much sausage it has eaten in a certain period of time. Culture is the most important thing.
2. The school stubbornly pretends to be from the 19th century.
Ask any philologist at school what Pushkin's tale about the fisherman and the fish is about. Everyone will say: this tale is about a greedy old woman who was left with nothing. Another stupidity. Is Pushkin going to waste time condemning another greedy old woman? This is a tale about unconditional love old man. It is easy to love a beautiful, generous, intelligent woman. You try to love an old, dirty, greedy old woman!
And here is the evidence. I ask any philologist: "How does The Tale of the Fisherman and the Fish begin?" Everyone says to me: "Once upon a time there was an old man and an old woman near the blue sea." Right? "That's right," say the philologists. "That's right," say the academics. “Right,” say the professors. “Right,” say the students. “Once upon a time there was an old man and an old woman by the very blue sea ...” This is wrong! It would not be Pushkin. "Once upon a time there was an old man with an old woman" - this is the most ordinary beginning of a fairy tale. And Pushkin: "An old man lived with his old woman." Do you feel the difference? Because its. Pushkin gives the code: his own, dear, 33 years together. Flesh of flesh.
Then I ask the philologists, where did they live? “Well, by the sea! By the sea!” And that's not true. By the blue sea. This is Pushkin's second code. As the old woman desires, she ceases to be her own, and the sea changes color. Remember? "The blue sea has become cloudy, blackened."
All I'm talking about now is culture. About another school, about smart teachers who will do such a thing that after that the children will read books all their free time, and not surf the Internet, and all sorts of "Pharaohs" and groups with obscenities. And the school pretends to be from the 19th century. From those times when there were two programs on television: on the first - Brezhnev, on the second - Kosygin. And the Pravda newspaper.
3. Teachers are far behind the internet
We live in a completely different world. Everything must change, because today there are no informant teachers. Not Ivan Petrovich, who said to read page 116 about Chomolungma. And the Internet, in which there are 500 thousand links to Chomolungma, to the highest peak in the world. From there you can learn about Tibet, about ancient cultures, about ancient knowledge, about the shadow of a teacher, and so on. What kind of school is this? Today, any normal Internet boy will give 100 points ahead to the good old Ivan Petrovich, who has a book “Methods of teaching geography in the fifth grade of high school” on the shelf at home.
4. Children need to play literature games
The school must be motivated by joy. Our children are only ten years old, the best years of life are from 6 to 16. What are we doing with them? For ten years, six hours a day - isn't that a crime? With such a speech, with such rhetoric, often that I get scared. Why did not a single teacher at school, telling the tale about the priest and Balda, tell the children the truth? That the whole "Tale of the priest and his worker Balda" by Pushkin is a struggle of two sounds? Pop is "o", and "Balda" is "a". Pop says, okay, it's round, and it reads the same from left to right - "pop", "pop".
Moscow, February 28, 2018.— Minister of Telecom and Mass Communications Russian Federation Nikolai Nikiforov spoke at the 430th meeting of the Federation Council of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation within the framework of the Government Hour on the issue “On topical issues of development of the communications and information technologies in the context of the formation of the digital economy in the Russian Federation”. Here is the text of his speech.
"Dear Colleagues!
What is the already approved program “Digital Economy”, what goals does it aim to achieve? Most importantly, it is aimed at creating a favorable legal environment for the use of digital technologies in the economy, building up competencies in the field of digital technologies of Russian enterprises, and developing data processing infrastructure. The whole digital economy is about how we collect, process and transfer data. This is to ensure our cyber resilience. We all understand the importance of this in our geopolitical environment. And, of course, this is the development of human capital. In fact, all aspects, one way or another, are connected with a person, with our leading specialists who create and develop these technologies.
The program provides for the development and implementation of a number of digital national platforms to support research activities, connect unconnected or connected at insufficiently high speed educational and healthcare institutions to the Internet. The implementation of the program will require close cooperation between the state, business and science.
The main goal is to create ten national leading companies - our national champions, which will benefit from the digitalization of the Russian economy and take their rightful place in the global market. You need to focus on this.
I will dwell in more detail on what has already been done in the sphere of communications and information technologies. These are the traditional issues that we discuss with you during government hours and during working meetings, as part of our work in the regions.
Our most important backlog in terms of the digital economy is that notable market players have been created and are working. These are Yandex and Mail.ru, a manufacturer of marine simulators and electronic navigation systems Transas, electronic announcement platform Avito, social network"VKontakte", a production company digital solutions in the field of security "Kaspersky Lab" and many others. This is done, among other things, thanks to our academic fundamental educational heritage and a meaningful policy in the field of new technologies.
Competent regulation of the communications industry has led to the fact that Russia has one of the lowest prices for communications and the Internet in the world. Despite the fact that the territory of our country requires huge investments, which is not faced by any state in the world. The fourth-generation LTE communication technology is available in the territory where 70% of our citizens live. Over the reporting five years, the number of users in the country has grown from 46% to 75%. About 70 million of our fellow citizens constantly carry certain mobile devices with them and use them online to organize their daily work. And this is the engine of digitalization of a number of industries.
We have always paid great attention to the project to bridge the digital divide. This issue has always been relevant for the Russian Federation. I would like to report that during the reporting period we managed to lay about 46,000 km of fiber-optic lines, which reached 5,600 settlements. And this work continues at full speed. These are settlements where communications simply would not have come without appropriate amendments to the federal law “On Communications”. And today there is a fully developed environment for the further construction of that very digital economy. Let me also remind you of such key projects that we managed to implement on Far East: these are submarine communication lines along the bottom of the Sea of Okhotsk Sakhalin - Magadan - Kamchatka, a project on the territory of Yakutia, where the problem of connecting settlements was especially acute. In 2017, the connection of Norilsk, a city with a population of 180 thousand people, where almost 2% of GDP is created, became a real event, all these years it did not have a land line. It was a real celebration, the whole city took to the streets and celebrated that now there is no digital divide, and high-speed inexpensive Internet access has appeared compared to satellite communications that existed before.
We will continue to implement the project to connect small communities. Fortunately, we have managed to resolve the issue with the financial bloc of the Government, and there is no more withdrawal of targeted funds from the Universal Communications Service Fund. All these funds are used today to solve the problem, which is envisaged federal law. Work is in full swing to connect healthcare institutions to high-speed communication channels. Let me remind you that the President of our country set such a task for the Government in his annual message on December 1, 2016. We will complete this work this year.
In 2017, we connected more than three thousand medical institutions. About ten thousand will be connected in 2018. This work is taking place locally. It must be remembered that in settlements, where high-speed communication comes, people live and other organizations are present, and not just a hospital, which will receive the possibility of using telemedicine and the most modern medical information technologies. The Internet will come to homes, to bodies local government, school, library, cultural institutions and so on.
Electronic public services are actively developing. 65 million of our citizens are registered on the Unified Portal of Public Services. There is growing confidence in the digital environment itself, in the electronic way of interaction between a citizen and business with the state. As a bright project, I would like to mention the electronic absentee ballot in the context of the upcoming voting in the presidential elections on March 18, 2018. Now an absentee certificate can be obtained using the public services portal. About a million citizens used the polling station selection service. This suggests that digital transformation is coming even to such conservative politically responsible topics as the organization of elections.
What needs to be done now so that digital transformation really creates the conditions for accelerating economic growth in Russia? We have to remove the remaining barriers in terms of legislation. This is our joint work.
In the priority activities approved under the Digital Economy program, the section on improving the regulatory framework already includes the preparation of potential amendments to about 50 laws. They are grouped into ten thematic sections.
We have to intensify work on import substitution and training of personnel. There is a serious concern here that the number of IT professionals, not only those who program and write program code, but in general, who introduce modern digital technologies into the work of industries and enterprises, is underestimated. In the sense that we are preparing few such specialists, and we need to increase the target enrollment figures in universities, pay attention to issues vocational training, including the revision school curriculum education.
Competition in the Russian economy, in the global market is, in a sense, a sport of high achievements. If an enterprise becomes more competitive by 1-2%, this can change the balance in established traditional markets. And such competition for these units of interest becomes possible precisely thanks to the use of digital technologies. Because traditional approaches have already been exhausted to some extent.
The Digital Economy program is not a program about how to spend taxpayers' money and increase budget spending. It is largely about creating conditions, including attracting private investment. One of important issues, which is also under consideration, is the issue of public-private partnership, involvement of the concession mechanism in the use and development of information systems.
Also, one should not forget that the digital economy is not only about communication, programming, and informatization. It affects a wide range of industries: education, healthcare, trade, finance. No industry can be left behind. In this context, I would like to touch on the current situation in the development of the postal service, because the digitalization of the economy is changing the traditional role of national postal operators in the life of the country. If earlier “Russian Post” was perceived, first of all, as a structure that delivers paper letters, today it is a commodity distribution network. Over the past five years, the number of international parcels handled daily has changed dramatically. Previously, about 80 thousand international parcels were processed per day, today it is more than a million parcels. And this number will increase. It will be realistic to estimate it at two million parcels per day, at three. The share of e-commerce will increase in relation to our traditional turnover, including in traditional retail networks. But we must use these opportunities not only to receive parcels from abroad, but to provide an adequate export flow and create conditions in terms of taxation, customs regulation, other forms of export promotion and support for small businesses in order to use these opportunities.
Technological change happens very quickly. I have already given an example about changing the number of Internet users. We need to realize this and create conditions so that our enterprises, our economy, including the quality of life of citizens, benefit from the new challenges that the technological revolution throws at us.
We believe that in terms of cooperation with legislators, with relevant committees, very interesting work lies ahead. And, of course, we are grateful for the political support that the Digital Economy program has today at the level of the President of our country, at the level of the Prime Minister, who are directly involved in the daily, monthly agenda for the implementation of this program.”
From a speech in the Federation Council, Mikhail Kazinik: “If our country, when planning the budget, would write “Culture” at number 1, then all other areas would automatically rise by many percent.
One percent added for culture is the same as fifteen percent for health care, it's the same as twenty-five percent for education. We have long been convinced of this.
Why? Now I will try to prove
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Persuasive Speech Standard
Today, TED talks are the standard for inspiring persuasive talk. The motto of TED is learning through fun. It means communicating ideas in a fun and engaging way.
If a person has the gift of presenting ideas in an easy and exciting way, this increases his ability to influence.
Mikhail Kazinik's Internet-breaking speech in the Federation Council is, in my opinion, an example of an impressive, incomparable speech.
Any speech of this speaker is an event, a discovery, a positive “brain explosion”. And it is no coincidence that Mikhail Kazinik was a participant in the TED conference, speaking on a topic with the figurative title “The school is dead. Long live the school!
What are the features of TED-style speeches and how is this reflected in Mikhail Kazinik's speech? Is it possible to call his speech not only impressive, but also effective? What impact did it have on the fate of Russian culture?
Emotionality as a way of conveying the main idea, the main message
The standard for TED talks is the speaker's ability to communicate passion and commitment to the audience. People feel the source of inspiration in the speaker himself, who lives and is sick of what he is talking about. His speech is not monotonous and scientific, but full of emotions, vivid images and accents.
My public speaking mentor, President of the Hollywood Speakers Guild, Klaus Hilgers, put it this way: “The audience is affected by being yourself and enjoying what you do.”
In a strong speech that has a powerful emotional impact, the main idea is always clearly traced as a red thread, what Stanislavsky called the most important task. This is the main goal of the speech, for the sake of which the speaker wants to introduce the idea into the minds and hearts of people.
The speech should be not only impressive, but also effective. You can't just say the text. The purpose of any performance is to change the worldview of people, to change their point of view to a more perfect one. The worst thing that can happen during a public speech is that people came as they came, they left as they were, nothing has changed.
A professional speaker, during the preparation of a speech, always asks questions that determine how accurately he can formulate the goal: “Why does the audience need to listen to all this? What value do they learn? What should my listeners do after the presentation? Where do I want to lead them?
The main idea is a clearly articulated message that relates to the purpose of the speech. This is that “dry residue”, a semantic concept, a phrase that should remain in the minds of people, even if they forget everything you said. People will not be able to memorize everything that is said, but they will remember vivid examples and individual ideas.
The speech of the art historian Mikhail Kazinik before the Federation Council is an excellent example of a speech built on an emotional dramatic principle. In his speech, as in a good play, there is a beginning, and an outset, and a climax, and a denouement. He educates while entertaining, telling stories and providing culture shock examples.
This is how Mikhail Kazinik voices the main idea of his speech at the very beginning of his speech: “I listened to what important and serious problems you have to decide, and now I want to take the conversation to a slightly different world, in a different direction. For someone it will seem strange, but for someone it is nature, meaning. I will now say one phrase, after which I will begin to prove that I am right. If our country, when planning the budget, wrote “culture” as number one, then all other areas would automatically rise by many percent. One percent for culture is the same as 15% for health and 25% for education. Why? Now I'll try to prove it.
He conveys this idea very figuratively, with a lot of live examples from literature and repeats it in different variations several times throughout the speech.
Repetition of the main idea several times during the speech in order for it to be remembered and have an impact, I call the Stirlitz principle. Remember the phrase from the film "Seventeen Moments of Spring": "Stirlitz knew that the beginning and end of the message is remembered"?
Here is how Mikhail Kazinik uses this principle of repeating the main idea.
In the middle of the speech, he again focuses on the main message, the concept of which could be formulated as follows: "Culture should come first in the country's budget."
Here is an excerpt from his speech: “What is culture? worship of the world. Who is Ur? This is the god of light. A cult is worship. Second, Latin meaning the words "culture" - cultivation. When the sun shines, it cultivates, gives growth forward. Culture always comes first, because it is the cultivation of the soul. The planet bows to light, not darkness. Where culture is in second place, the first will have to lay out money for health care. People without culture get sick. Even oncology is the result of the absence of light. This is darkness. I know people who live thanks to my cultural films. Each film is an attempt to open the human soul, to tell a secret.”
During his speech, the speaker reinforces the main idea with strong arguments. What are strong arguments? Clarification of concepts, life stories (how it happened, how it happened, what happened and why), statistics, demonstrations (during the performance, Kazinik plays the violin, illustrating his idea). All this draws attention to the topic and keeps the interest of the public throughout the time allotted to the speaker.
At the end of the speech, he again repeats the main idea, summing up the speech: “Remember, they used to write: the violin played, they cried? Why is no one crying today after a concert at the Philharmonic? But something was missing. And one day I realized what was missing. I need not an hour, but a whole conference on culture, so that you do not approve the second place in culture in the country's budget. So that you approve only the first place. Cultivation of the soul is the main thing. Without this, everything is lost. Everything we do is the equivalent of culture. Give money to the wrong place - they will spend it in the wrong place. Any country is valuable by what it has contributed to the world's treasury of civilization, and not by how much sausage it has eaten.
And Stanislavsky would have believed!
What other techniques allow Mikhail Kazinik to have an incredibly strong emotional impact on listeners?
To understand this, let's turn to the Stanislavsky system. The principles of this system are valid not only for actors, but also for speakers. Let's look at two important concepts from this system: stage action and faith in the proposed circumstances.
Actions according to Stanislavsky are a mental struggle with obstacles. This is the answer to the question: why don't they do it? For example, culture should be central to the country's budget. Why is it not? Is it all about ignorance? Let's fight ignorance. Method of struggle: we ourselves ask uncomfortable questions and answer them ourselves.
Here is how Mikhail Kazinik does it. He wonders: “Why did the violin play before and everyone cried, but now it doesn’t?” And he himself answers: "Because something is gone ... People without culture get sick, even oncology is the result of the absence of light." Throughout the speech, he addresses the audience with questions that make you think and change the point of view on known, but insufficiently understood important things.
The principle of "faith in the proposed circumstances" is manifested in the fact that Mikhail Kazinik, as a speaker, is not afraid to look comical, because he believes in what he says. He talks about his story and about what emotionally touches him personally. The speech of this speaker is full of metaphors that make the speech very lively and dramatic: “cultivation of the soul”, “the planet bows to the light, not darkness”, etc.
Master of bright storytelling and novelty of presentation
Let's take a closer look at these distinctive features TED style talks like:
1
the speaker's ability to illustrate his speech with stories and examples;
2
the ability to teach something new and make a speech memorable, to present the content in such a way that it is difficult to forget.
This is in line with the best traditions of the ancient Greek approach to public speaking: from the time of Ancient Greece oratory hasn't changed. The founder of business communication, Aristotle, believed that persuasion should include three things: ethos, logos, and pathos.
Ethos is the inner warehouse of a person, his characteristics as a speaker, his individual demeanor. And this is what affects the level of trust of the audience.
Logos is a harmonious presentation of the material, an appeal to the mind with the help of data and statistics. Logos must be combined with what Aristotle called pathos. Paphos is an appeal to emotions, heart, soul. In other words, any idea should be supported by examples or stories. For one idea - one or two examples or one story.
The special ethos of Mikhail Kazinik, his touching and maximally sincere, almost childish manner of communication could not fail to arouse sympathy even among such a restrained audience as members of the Federation Council.
Being a brilliant art critic, the owner of unique literary and historical knowledge Kazinik is great at using storytelling. He skillfully tells stories and gives "lethal" literary examples, skillfully combines "arguments and facts" and does it in his own unique manner.
For example, he analyzes Krylov's fable "Cabin".
It would seem, why? What does this have to do with the additional allocation of money for culture - the main goal pursued by the speaker? To be honest, as a person with a philological education, I was ashamed that, like most people, I misunderstood the meaning of a well-known literary work. It turns out that “the chest just OPENED (the emphasis is not on the word “just”, but on the word “opened”), that is, there was no secret of opening the chest, which even the master did not find, but there was simple human stupidity, which leads to the fact that people tend to exaggerate problems and complicate things instead of first assuming that the lid of the chest was never closed. analogy with life situations very simple. For many of us, it was like this: for example, the TV does not work. We call the master, and it turns out that the batteries in the remote control just ran out. The moral is simple: keep it simple, check the simple, obvious things.
Mikhail Kazinik does these “delicious” analyzes of literary works to show how culturally society and education have degraded, how superficially even the teachers themselves master the material and therefore are not able to either captivate children with learning, or instill a love for science, literature, art, and that means life itself.
After all, culture and education are designed to prepare a person for life, make him capable of improving the world, instilling moral values ... And great works of literature and art provide such correct guidelines.
Just on the example of the analysis of Pushkin's fairy tale “About the Fisherman and the Fish”, Mikhail Kazinik shows how this work, if understood correctly, can teach tolerance and love for one's neighbor, whatever it may be.
This is how our brilliant speaker justifies this: “Ask any teacher, and he will tell you that this is a fairy tale about a greedy old woman. My good, this is another stupidity. Will Pushkin waste time discussing another greedy old woman?
At this point, the speaker maintains a short pause, which gives weight to the words. Speakers know that a pause can sometimes say even more than words. An appropriate pause is a powerful technique for influencing an audience.
And then Mikhail Kazinik says: “This is a fairy tale about love. About the unconditional love of an old man. It's easy to love a smart, generous woman. You try to love an old, dirty, greedy old woman. How does the fairy tale begin? Did an old man and an old woman live? No. An old man lived with his old woman. Because it's still OWN. Then: they lived by the blue sea (emphasis on the word "blue"). The sea ceases to be blue, just as the old woman ceases to be her own. What am I talking about now? About culture. About another school. About other teachers who will do such a thing that children will read books all their free time, and not climb pornographic pictures. The school pretends to be from the 19th century. No, we live in a different world. Today, not teachers are informants, but the Internet, in which there are 500 thousand links to Chomolungma.
If children are told that the violin is the most cheerful instrument, they will not believe it, because the symphony, the philharmonic - immediately darkness appears. But the violin was born as an attribute of jesters (the dialogue of two cats plays the violin - a small one and a big one). If so shown, the child will not even notice that they are playing the violin.
The school must be motivated by joy. The best years of the life of children from 10 to 16 years old - what are we doing with them? After that, they come out with such a speech, with such rhetoric that I get scared. Why did not a single teacher tell the children the truth that the tale of the priest and his worker Balda is a struggle between two sounds, “o” and “a”? After that, the children would love to play literary games. And who knows that the tale of Ryaba the hen is a parable of chance? Every person in life gets a chance: not a simple egg, but a golden one. And he must understand that they don’t fry eggs from him. ”
Masterpiece, incomparable examples - what can I say!
The end is the crown of business?
The skill of the speaker is especially evident at the beginning and at the end of the speech.
First you need to be able to "break the ice in the audience" and instantly capture the attention of listeners. The final stage of the speech is strategically the most significant. After all last words continue to influence listeners even after the speaker has finished speaking.
The end is the best moment for a climax, and therefore the performance must end on a high emotional note. As in music, the last chord of a speech should sound like a powerful accent, create a motivating motive, and cause an emotional outburst.
At the end of his speech, Mikhail Kazinik told an incredibly touching story about how his violin music helped to establish contact with the dolphin civilization. He was invited to an event held at sea on a ship, at the birthplace of dolphin civilization, to play violin music for them. Several hundred dolphins swam to the sound of the violin and listened.
Then, to complete the impression, Mikhail Kazinik played this music on the violin for members of the Federation Council. Personally, I sobbed.
Why is this story the climax? Because in this way the speaker demonstrated the highest level of perception of culture among dolphins and how much it has degraded in humans.
He ended his speech with an appeal to the members of the Federation Council: “My dears, look at my films. I know that someone has problems with nervous system, with health and in general it is difficult to bear such responsibility as you. Please go to another world. You will help yourself, your health. I embrace you with music."
The mistakes of the great orator and his triumph
What is the result? Did this outstanding performance achieve its goal - to change the point of view of the members of the Federation Council on the place of culture in the country's budget?
Here is the adopted budget for 2018 under the headings “education”, “health care” and “culture”: education - 549.3 billion rubles, health care - 363.2 billion rubles, culture - 93 billion rubles.
So, Mikhail Kazinik's speech made a strong emotional impression on the listeners, caused a storm of applause, but did not prompt them to put culture in the first place in the budget. Why?
In my opinion, there are several reasons.
1 The audience, represented by the Federation Council, was not initially tormented by the question of “to be or not to be,” whether or not to allocate more money for culture. This brilliant speech was listened to by people who do not accept independent decisions. In other words, this audience did NOT have a PURPOSE to change anything in this area.
2 It was not clear from the speech how the emphasis more money for culture will help raise the cultural level of society so that it reads differently literary works, listened to music, perceived cultural values. It is unclear what exactly the money should be allocated for and why it would be effective; what happens if more money is invested in culture, and how this should happen.
Mikhail Kazinik's speech can be called educational (they didn't understand the importance of the topic - they realized), but it cannot be called selling (they understood the value of investing money and invested).
Nevertheless, the importance of this speech for society, in my opinion, can hardly be overestimated. As they say, talk about your plan, and sooner or later it will reach the majority.
Mikhail Kazinik himself in one of his interviews said about it this way: “It is not the momentary effect that is important to me, but the knowledge that even one meeting can reprogram a person, make him reconsider his views on life values. The goal is obvious - to try here, as in all other places, to blow up the atmosphere of non-school, non-education, non-education, absolute movement to nowhere. Of course, this is unlikely to happen in the foreseeable future, but I am convinced that my school is the future. We just need to talk about it more."
Mikhail Kazinik, an art critic and educator, devoted his whole life to serving art. He simply and clearly talks about music, literature, painting. He easily translates a theory far from life into something simple, vital and interesting.
About education
Schools need to be changed all over the world. Children do not want to go to school, parents shout: "It's not safe there!".
Children need to develop a different way of thinking, faith in their own strength. Do not force the child to study music, but help to discover creative potential.
About the 21st century
If another saving era of the Renaissance does not come in the 21st century, then it is absolutely true that an era of obscurantism will come to this place.
About geniuses
Mankind feeds and develops only on the creations of the spirit, left by great composers, writers, poets. This is civilization, this is true peace. Today the whole world has gone crazy with its idea of equality of opportunity, gender, intelligence.
If all people are brilliant, then what is your potential? A genius will never be a person who does not have a different way of thinking, does not have the ease of generating ideas, the ability to abandon an idea as soon as it is compromised.
About Tchaikovsky, Rachmaninov and school grades
What scoring system to evaluate brilliant works Chekhov, Turgenev?
When Tchaikovsky taught at the conservatory, he was so kind that he gave everyone fives - unsuccessful, weak and strong students. Since he was a melancholic, he immediately began to cry if he had to put a bad mark.
Once a tall young man approached him and held out notes with excitement, introducing himself as Rachmaninoff. Tchaikovsky began to play from the notes and suddenly burst into tears. Everyone was confused. It turned out that he was upset because if no one can be put above the top five, then this brilliant boy is the same as everyone else?
After this incident, Tchaikovsky introduced new system estimates. He drew a five, put a plus on the left, on the right, above, below, and a nine-point rating system was obtained. He was very pleased!
About the gastronomic approach to art
Classics - the text of civilization. If there is a mystery of geniuses who created outstanding creations, then there must be a mystery of geniuses of perception. From this it is clear that not everyone can understand genius.
How long does an average person spend in a museum near a painting? 4–5 seconds. The artist put so much work into this picture that people passed by ... by ... without even understanding the idea?
All painting does not so much represent as it expresses. Here, for example, you can hear such a conversation near a picture with an apple painted by a Dutch artist in the style of realism: “I would eat it (exactly a gastronomic approach to fine arts), but the Flemish apples are already different, I won’t eat these!
You need to look at the paintings of artists for a long time, look in detail, and then a completely different world will open before you!
About love
Love is the greatest energy in the world. All great music ever written by man is love, all great poetry is also love. After all, God created people with love!
Mikhail Semyonovich Kazinik - Scientific Director of the Eurasian Center for Advanced Socio-Cultural Design of the Moscow Educational and Cultural Cluster, member of the Committee for International Humanitarian Cooperation of the EECO, art critic and educator, author and host of original music and art programs, popularizer of classical music, musical expert of the Nobel Concert, guest professor at Stockholm Drama Institute, honorary member of the European Slavic Academy of Literature and Art in Bulgaria, Honorary Doctor of RISEBA (Riga International Graduate School Economics), professor at the open department of MPEI, holder of the Order of Service to Art for his contribution to strengthening international humanitarian cooperation.
Governing Council of the Moscow Educational and Cultural Cluster
