Урок 1 Unit 2 Рабочая тетрадь ГДЗ English Кузовлев 9 класс

In your culture. Moscow and St Petersburg offer a lot of places where you can listen to some good music or see an interesting performance. What are those places?

Fill in the gaps with the articles where necessary.

Tourists may be interested in (0) — Moscow theatres (even those who don’t know Russian), there are a lot of different performances. People who love animals can go to (1) ___ Durov Animal Theatre and (2) ___ Kuklachev Cat Theatre. The first one was founded by (3) ___ famous animal trainer Durov who was one of the Durov circus dynasty that was started in the late 19th century. Kuklachev, (4) ___ circus clown, started his theatre to show what cats can do. You will enjoy any performance for adults at (5) ___ Obraztsov Puppet Theatre. They still show performances created by Sergei Obraztsov (1901—1992), who was (6) ___ leader of the theatre from 1931 to 1992. (7) ___ St Petersburg’s ballet is famous all over the world. Many tourists try not to miss the chance of going to (8) ___ Mariinsky Theatre. There are ballet performances at (9) ___ Mussorgsky Opera House and (10) ___ Rimsky-Korsakov Conservatoire. Wonderful music performances are offered by (11) ___ October Concert Hall. During the latest season orchestras conducted by Herbert Blomstedt (Sweden) and Seidji Ozawa (Japan), (12) ___ famous foreign performers, played there.

In your culture. There are many famous performers and composers in Russia. And there are conservatoire students and music school pupils who may become famous in the future. Which of them do you know? Use the underlined verbs to form the nouns and translate them. Use a dictionary to check.

1. Modest Mussorgsky composed music known all over the world.
2. Ul’yana Lopatkina dances at the Mariinsky Theatre. But many world theatres ask her to dance on their stages.
3. Igor Moiseev founded his famous Folk Dancing Ensemble in 1937.
4. Mikhail Glinka wrote the first Russian national opera in which he followed ethnic musical traditions.
5. Sergei Rachmaninoff performed in the best world concert halls as a pianist with great success.
6. Vladimir Spivakov contributed much to the development of the chamber music.
7. Pavel Kolesnikov is working hard as a pianist because he wants to win the Tchaikovsky Contest.
8. Alexandra Pakhmutova is very popular in Russia because she has written hundreds of songs.
9. Nikita Zverev is a young 12-year-old pianist who has just begun his musical career.

In your culture. Here is the story about the outstanding Russian composer Dmitri Shostakovich. What was his most famous work? Fill in the gaps with the words from the box.

Dmitri Shostakovich was born on 25 September, 1906 in St Petersburg. His father was an engineer and his mother was a (0) ___ and gave him his first piano lessons. When he was 13, he became a pupil of the famous (1) ___ Alexander Glazunov at the Petrograd Conservatoire. Shostakovich was happy because he liked Glazunov’s music a lot. Dmitri Shostakovich wrote his first (2) ___ in 1925 and it was performed all over the world. Every year until he died, Shostakovich celebrated its (3) ___ as the moment when his life changed forever. Shostakovich’s Second Symphony (4) ___ in 1927. It was an experimental work with a (5) ___ when the choir sang “To October” by Alexander Bezymensky. In the years of the Great Terror (in the late 1930s), his music was criticised, the critics said it was (6) ___ and complicated. In December 1941, D. Shostakovich (who lived in besieged Leningrad) wrote his most famous “Leningrad Symphony”. It is a real (7) ___. Its first night (8) ___ in the besieged city in 1942. Though Shostakovich’s works were a great success and played to (9) ___ in Russia and in the West, he suffered from criticism of the official powers. Many specialists think that the conflict with the powers (10) ___ his music very much. D. Shostakovich died in 1975 in Moscow. His son Maxim, a well-known (11) ___, helps to popularise his father’s music by working with the best world orchestras. Even now many orchestras (12) ___ Shostakovich’s music all over the world.