Royal family’s piano to be played in Yekaterinburg

Musicians will play the grand piano of the Romanov family in a new philharmonic society, which is to open at the Church-on-Blood in Yekaterinburg on the day of St. Catherine, heavenly protector of the city. The Diocese of Yekaterinburg bought the piano, royal prisoners played when in Tobolsk. It is being restored, but some spares are not produced at present, they are bespoke especially for the instrument, the diocesan representative said.

The restoration will take one or two months. First charitable concert will be given on December 9 without it.

‘Music gives the greatest emotional energy among all kinds of art. It is filled with positive emotions, it seeks open attitude to the world, communication with God and people’, the diocesan representative noted. He underscored it was impossible to think about Orthodox spiritual and cultural tradition without classic music composed by Glinka, Rakhmaninov, Chaikovsky, Prokofiev, Borodin.

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