Russian pianist wins award at Eurovision Young Musicians.

VIENNA, May 15 (Itar-Tass) - Russian pianist Daniil Trifonov, 19, has
won the third place the 15th international Eurovision Young Musicians
Competition-2010. The final of this prestigious contest ended in the
Austrian capital late on Friday and marked the beginning of the
traditional annual Vienna art festival. Despite the unusually cool and wet
weather that has set in here, thirty-seven thousand people gathered on a
square in front of the Vienna Town Hall where the finalists performed.
The winner was a 16-year-old girl from Slovenia, Eva-Nina Kozmus, who
played the fifer. A 16-year-old violinist from Norway, Guro Kleven Hagen,
was runner-up. Daniil Trifonov was third. He played Grande Polonaise
Brilliante by Frederick Chopin. He did that masterfully.
The Eurovision Young Musicians Competition has been held since 1982 on
initiative from the European Broadcasting Union, which unites 86 media
companies from 56 countries. Seventeen European TV companies broadcast
this year's final to millions of TV viewers in Europe and beyond its
boundaries.

. Moscow museums to participate in European night of museums.

MOSCOW, May 15 (Itar-Tass) - Almost 150 Moscow museums and picture
galleries will join the European night of museums action on May 15th. They
will open for visitors at 19:00 Moscow time on Saturday and will stay open
until 2 o'clock in the morning on Sunday.
Three bus routes will be launched in Moscow for this coming night.
They will shuttle between various Moscow museums every 15 minutes. The
first route will run on the Moscow Garden Ring with stops at the Museum of
Moscow on Zubovsky boulevard, the exhibition halls of the State Museum of
Alexander Pushkin, the Library of the History of Russian philosophy and
culture, the museums of Marina Tsvetayeva and Mikhail Bulgakov.
The second route will run through the South West of Moscow and will
cover the panoramic museum of the Borodino Battle, the Darwin Museum and
the Museum of the Great Patriotic War. The third bus route will connect
museum estates like Tsaritsyno, Kolomenskoye, Kuzminki, Lyublino and
Kuskovo. Six pedestrian routes will also work.
This is the fourth time that Moscow museums and picture galleries will
leave their doors open free-of-charge for one May night. A total of 60
museums, 36 exhibition halls, 42 galleries and six art centres will stay
open tonight.
Muscovites will be able to see theatrical shows and concerts, and
attend master classes and film runs. More than 300 events and 500
excursions will be organized for them tonight.
Four leading museums in Russia's Penza region will join the European
night of museums action on Saturday. The 100-year-old Penza regional
ethnographic museum, the K.A. Savitsky picture gallery, the Association of
State Memorial Museums of Literature and the Penza museum of folk art will
stay open from Saturday evening, May the 15th, until two o'clock in the
morning on May the 16th.
There are about thirty museums in Penza. They have what to offer to
their visitors: six million artifacts from the main stocks.
The museum workers have prepared theatrical shows, meetings one-day
exhibitions, excursions and diverse master classes for fanatic lovers of
history and culture.
The first 'Night of Museums' was held on May 18, 1999 under the name
of "Spring of Museums". The French Ministry of Culture and Communications
organized it. Thirty-nine countries from Europe and America participated
in the action in 2001. In 2005, the action was renamed into the night of
museums. Seven hundred and fifty museums in France and 500 museums in
Europe joined the project in 2005. Their number increased to 2,300
museums in Europe, including Russia.
In the meantime, France remains unconditional leader of this Night of
culture. More than 1,300 museums, both state and private, will be open in
France in the evening hours on Saturday. They include ethnographic,
historical and thematic museums as well as Versailles, the Louvre Museum
in Paris, the museums of Rodin, Burdela and Maillol as well as the museums
of mail, the Middle Ages, the Renaissance and romantic life.
France's Culture Minister Frederick Mitterand said the European night
of museums offered an excellent opportunity to remove barriers that
prevent the access of some social groups to cultural heritage. Last year,
the museum night action drew together 1.8 million art fans in France,
exceeding the 2008 levels by 300,000 people. This year, the attendance is
expected to be as high as in previous years. A spate of cold and rainy
weather in France is the only thing that can actually decrease the number
of visitors.


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