CLUD CLUB - A Talent Evening at SPbCU
On April 11th a talent evening called "Clud Club" took place in the assembly hall at St. Petersburg Christian University.
By tradition, the Clud Club is a special event, a kind of sermon or homily about Christ by means of a creative use of talents offered to the Lord. For the students and guests of SPbCU, this was a real celebration of music with many talented participants.
This time, all the talents were musical ones. The presentations were absolutely different in style and genre, from classical and jazz to Christian hip-hop and rock. One talented group gave way to another performing several very successful musical compositions.
The evening was opened by the orchestra of the Rostroprovich Music School under the direction of Arsena Yenikeyeva. The orchestra performed 4 works: a passage from a composition by Handal for the harp and orchestra (including a solo on the harp by Natalia Rudenko), and 3 jazz compositions.
Alexandra Shirshova, a graduate of the St Petersburg Conservatory and recipiant of honors in international competitions, served in the capacity of invited concert master for the evening.
For young orchestra members this was not their first experience of appearing in public --they love and know how to do tours, -- but it was their first concert in a Christain setting.
The task that was presented for the evening was to attract talented youth groups even from the secular sphere and combine them with Christian groups in order to participate together in the creative process. The Lord blessed us, helping us to "not bury our talents", but to bring forth fruit with joy.
SPbCU students Dalyer and Nastia directed the club. Dalyer tried to choose a respectable suitor for his sister from among the participants of the concert. This turned out to be a real competition of talents. The choice of a suitor wasn't a simple one, especially when each candidate could be praised for his special, unique abilities.
The Kolosov Brothers, a Russian variant of "The Beatles", lined up by height. Their musical succession was given from oldest to youngest.
Their performance was so ingenous and energetic that the hall echoed with applause.
Then several hymns were presented by a combined GOSPEL CHOIR. They sang in English and in Russian; they sang a capella, superbly drawing up complicated rhythmical parts of the canon, delivering a doxology like a relay race.
After that came a group known to many, "Thoughts Aloud" and Andrei Ageyev, a master of Christian Hip-Hop and known under the pseudonym of C-Flat with the group "Photon". The evening ended with a presentation by the group called "All I Have".
So much music in one program, and such variety, probably never was heard within the walls of a university. The next such evening is preliminarily planned for the coming Fall. A decision was made to also invite the poets and actors, who, due to humility, were found on this night only in the audience.