International Music Day (01/10)

International Music Day, celebrated annually on October 1 since 1975, was established at the initiative of the International Music Council (IMC) of UNESCO two years earlier at the 15th General Assembly of the IMC in Lausanne.

One of the initiators of the establishment of International Music Day were composer Dmitry Shostakovich and Chairman of the International Music Council Yehudi Menuhin.

The holiday is celebrated annually all over the world with large concert programs, with the participation of the best artists and artistic groups. On this day, works are heard that have entered the treasury of world culture. Creative meetings with composers, performers, musicologists are also held, thematic exhibitions and educational events are organized, which contributes to the goal of disseminating music as art in a variety of communities.

Music (from the Greek musike, literally — «art of the muses») — is an art form in which organized musical sounds serve as a means of embodying artistic images. Humanity has been familiar with music since ancient times. Caves in Africa have preserved rock paintings of long-disappeared tribes. The drawings depict people with musical instruments. We will never hear that music again, but it once brightened up people's lives, made them rejoice or grieve.

In 2000, Chinese archaeologists discovered a museum of musical instruments created two thousand years ago during the Han Dynasty.

Music has enormous power. There are few people in the world who are indifferent to music. Many composers have tried to express the state of their souls through her. Their great names will always be said with gratitude by their descendants. Music does not age, it will live as long as a person exists.

After all, music affects a person’s perception and fills him with emotions. This is not only the creative expression of composers, musicians and singers, for centuries and millennia music has been an inseparable part of the cultural tradition, religious rite and daily existence of every nation. And now, fortunately, music has not lost its meaning, but on the contrary, — the need for it is increasing.

Free access to many musical works via the Internet, modern means of recording and reproducing music make it more accessible, new multimedia capabilities allow you to listen and watch performances by musicians on more advanced media. All this helps to expand the knowledge of people (and especially the younger generation) about various cultural environments, layers, traditions where music is necessarily present.

Therefore, International Music Day also implements the idea of rapprochement and friendship between peoples, mutual enrichment of cultures, because the language of music is international and understandable to everyone who feels...



Postcard «1 October — International Music Day»

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