Salt symphony.

      A unique festival "Salt Symphony" will take place at a depth of 300 meters underground kingdom.
      The idea of creating such a festival was born from Christian Gesslya, Commercial Counsellor Embassy of Austria in Ukraine. We decided then to organize a symphony concert and specially invited for the Austrian conductor Kurt Schmid, but decent room for this event was not found in the Donbass. Send whereas Mr. Gessl to the then Governor of Donetsk, but he advised him to arrange a concert there - and not somewhere, but right in the salt mine. Creativity! And what? Place beautiful - only one finish properly illuminated salt which is worth!
Unusual climate unusual acoustics in the hall, which made the wilderness. You go for salt niche, as in the tale. Acoustics is fantastic. The impression for life.

     The town Soledar, near which salt mines are situated, is in Donbass - a powerful industrial region of the north-eastern part of Ukraine. The industrial mining of salt began more than 100 years ago in this region. Among working mines, where salt is extracted, there are mines, where extraction of salt is already finished.

However, these closed mines still keep serving people. Bronchial asthma, lung inflammation, allergy and other diseases are successfully cured in the special salt sanatorium.

        The museum tells about salt mining at the area of Donbass, and divine service goes in the underground Orthodox Church; wedding ceremonies also take place here. Walls, ceiling, floor, trees - everything in the mine is made of salt. The salt palm is unique as the symbol of Donetsk; it is the analogue of Mertsalov's palm. Underneath you can also see salt sculptures made by folk masters.

      Art Festival "Salt Symphony 2007" The Concert of Symphonic Music:
Salare la sinfonia
Prokofjev Academic Symphony Orchestra of Donetsk Regional State Philharmonics
Soprano Catarina Coresi - Austria
Mezzo - Soprano Elena Suvorova - Austria
«L'orchestre de Contrebasses»
Orchestra Contrebasses – France

      Dates V Art Festival "Salt Symphony 2008", tentatively 16-18 May 2008.





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