The ”Shtokman symphony” is written in honor of the world’s largest offshore natural gas field located some 600 kilometers north of the Kola Peninsula in the Russian part of the Barents Sea.
23-year old Anton Lubchenko is the composer. Lubchenko lives in St. Petersburg, planned to be the new Gazprom capital in Russia. Gazprom is know as one of the mayor sponsors of Russian cultural life. The ”Shtokman symphony” composer is known for the opera he wrote dedicated to the 2004 Beslan school shoutout in North-Osetia, reports the
Moscow News.
RIA Novosti reports the ”Shtokman symphony” will be a part of ”The Industrial Trilogy.” In addition to Shtokman as tema, the two others are also connected to Russia’s petroleum industry; the Sakhalin oil and gas project in the Far East and the long railway-bridge over the river Yuribei on Yamal Peninsula also holding large amounts of natural gas.
The two first part of the symphony trilogy, Yuribei and Sakhalin will be recorded this weekend in St. Petersburg, according to a press-release sent by Sinemafonika, the company producing the symphony to honor Russia’s largest industrial natural gas projects.
The composer’s task is to form an artistic image of Russia’s industrial power, reads the press-release from Sinemafonika.
RIA Novosti says the idea behind the symphony is reminiscent of Soviet-era Socialist Art.
