Misplaced Pages

#143856

92-495: Ivan Shuvalov and Mikhail Lomonosov promoted the idea of a university in Moscow, and Russian Empress Elizabeth decreed its establishment on 23 January [ O.S. 12 January] 1755. The first lectures were given on 7 May [ O.S. 26 April]. Saint Petersburg State University and MSU each claim to be Russia's oldest university. Though Moscow State University was founded in 1755, St. Petersburg which has had

184-458: A Gentleman-In-Waiting , and his liaison with the Empress began. Although the cousins planned to use him as a pawn in their court intrigues, Shuvalov refused to get enmeshed in their machinations. As his biographers like to point out, Shuvalov was "mild and generous to all" and "had no enemies whatsoever". His position at court grew stronger during Elizabeth's declining years, when he served as

276-544: A Olympia show, and wrote music for the International Festival of Magic. In 1972 he also released his first solo album, Deserted Palace , and composed the soundtrack for Les Granges Brûlées ( English : The Burned Barns ). Jarre's 1976 low-budget solo album Oxygène , recorded at his home studio, made him famous internationally. The music was made with analog synthesizers like the EMS VCS 3 and

368-449: A Russophobic nuncio at Warsaw , with the more pliant Count Giuseppe Garampi . His eventual return to Russia in 1777 occasioned Derzhavin 's well-known epistle , while the Empress made him High Chamberlain. Shuvalov's mansion was to be frequented by the new generation of Russian intellectuals: Ekaterina Dashkova , Denis Fonvizin , Mikhail Kheraskov , Ivan Dmitriev , and Aleksandr Shishkov  – many of them products of

460-566: A 1969 exposition at the Maison de la Culture (Cultural House) in Reims , Jarre wrote the five-minute song "Happiness Is a Sad Song". That same year he composed and recorded "La Cage/Erosmachine", a mixture of harmony, tape effects and synthesisers, which was released in 1971. In 1971 Jarre was commissioned by choreographer Norbert Schmucki to perform a ballet called AOR (in Hebrew, "the light"), at

552-584: A Paris jazz club run by one of her friends from her resistance years, where saxophonists Archie Shepp and John Coltrane , and trumpet players Don Cherry and Chet Baker were regular performers. These early jazz experiences suggested to him that music may be "descriptive, without lyrics". He was also influenced by the work of French artist Pierre Soulages , whose exhibition at the Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris he attended. Soulages' paintings used multiple textured layers, and Jarre realised that "for

644-640: A Russian scholar who aspired to establish a university in Russia. Lomonosov found a loyal patron in Shuvalov and paid tribute to his accomplishments in his dedication of a couple of odes and "meditations" to him. On 23 January 1755 – the name-day of Shuvalov's mother Tatiana Rodionovna – the Empress endorsed their project to set up the Imperial Moscow University "for all sorts and conditions of people". Tatiana Day

736-701: A band called Mystère IV. While he studied at the Lycée Michelet , his mother arranged for him to take lessons in harmony , counterpoint and fugue with Jeannine Rueff of the Conservatoire de Paris . In 1967 he played guitar in a band called The Dustbins , who appear in the film Des garçons et des filles  [ fr ] . He mixed instruments including the electric guitar and the flute with tape effects and other sounds. More experimentation followed in 1968, when he began to use tape loops , radios and other electronic devices. In 1969, he joined

828-633: A concert at La Défense in Paris, attended by a record-breaking audience of about two million people, again beating his earlier world record. He later promoted a concert near the Pyramids of Teotihuacan in Mexico, to be held during the solar eclipse of 11 July 1991 . However, with only weeks to go, important equipment had not arrived and the sinking in the Atlantic Ocean of a cargo ship containing

920-628: A continuous existence as a "university" since 1819 sees itself as the successor of an academy established on in 1724, by a decree of Peter the Great . MSU originally occupied the Principal Medicine Store on Red Square from 1755 to 1787. Catherine the Great transferred the university to a building on the other side of Mokhovaya Street, constructed between 1782 and 1793, to a design by Matvei Kazakov , and rebuilt by Domenico Giliardi after fire consumed much of Moscow in 1812 . In

1012-634: A full complement of live musicians, but at Aalborg he was accompanied only by Francis Rimbert, and having guests like the Klarup Girls Choir, Safri Duo and the Aalborg Symphonic Orchestra. In 2003 he released Geometry of Love on Warner Music label, it was commissioned by Jean-Roch as soundtrack for his 'V.I.P. Room' nightclub in France. The physical CD was a long time out of print, but in 2018 remastered reissue

SECTION 10

#1732772635144

1104-516: A million at his home city of Lyon , in celebration of a visit by Pope John Paul II . Watching from Lyon Cathedral , the Pope began the concert with a good-night blessing, a recording of which appears on Cities in Concert – Houston/Lyon . In 1988, Jarre released his ninth studio album Revolutions , and in same year, a concert called Destination Docklands was planned for September, to be held at

1196-459: A record-breaking audience of more than a million people at the Place de la Concorde , a record he has since broken three times. More albums followed, but his 1979 concert served as a blueprint for his future performances around the world. Several of his albums have been released to coincide with large-scale outdoor events. As of 2004, Jarre had sold an estimated 80 million albums and singles. He

1288-416: A sense we're putting most of our bets on Jean-Michel Jarre. He is quite exceptional and we're sure that by 1980 he will be recognised worldwide." Jarre's follow-up album, Équinoxe , was released in 1978. Though its sales were still healthy, it had less of an impact than Oxygène . but in 1979 Jarre held a large open-air concert on Bastille Day , at the Place de la Concorde . The free outdoor event set

1380-623: A smaller scale than his previous concerts, featuring a miniature skyline, laser imaging and fireworks. Locations included Lausanne, Mont St Michel, London, Manchester , Barcelona, Seville and the Versailles Palace near Paris. In March 1994, a concert was held in Hong Kong, to mark the opening of the city's new stadium. Jarre performed many of his most well-known hits at the Concert for Tolerance on Bastille Day in 1995, celebrating

1472-719: A studio album that described the different stages of a loving relationship. In that same year released on EMI label a new recording of his 1976 album named Oxygène: New Master Recording . Jarre performed 10 concerts ( Oxygène Live ) in December 2007, held in the Théâtre Marigny , located in the Champs-Élysées , Paris. Later in 2008 Jarre performed several concerts to celebrate the 30th anniversary of Oxygène , in theaters in Europe. Following one such performance at

1564-486: A surge in sales—a further 800,000 records were sold between 14 July and 31 August 1979—and the Frenchman Francis Rimbert featured at the event. By the time Les Chants Magnétiques was released on 20 May 1981, Oxygène and Équinoxe had achieved global sales of about 6 million units. In its first two months the new album sold 200,000 units in France alone. The album uses sounds from

1656-414: A virtual master of petitions to her, eclipsing her previous favourite and rumoured husband, Aleksey Razumovsky . Promoted general in 1760, Shuvalov refused most other honours that the Empress wished to bestow upon him, including the title of count. Unlike the self-seeking favourites of Catherine the Great , Shuvalov determined to put his good fortune to constructive use for the advancement of education and

1748-482: A world record for the largest number of spectators ever at an open-air concert, drawing more than 1 million spectators. Although it was not the first time he had performed in concert (Jarre had already played at the Paris Opera Ballet ), the 40 minute-long event, which used projections of light, images and fireworks, served as a blueprint for Jarre's future concerts. Its popularity helped create

1840-515: Is a French composer, performer and record producer. He is a pioneer in the electronic , ambient and new-age genres, and is known for organising outdoor spectacles featuring his music, accompanied by vast laser displays , large projections and fireworks . Jarre was raised in Lyon by his mother and grandparents and trained on the piano. From an early age, he was introduced to a variety of art forms, including street performers, jazz musicians and

1932-526: Is an instrumental version of the first, with the voices removed. In 2001 he composed, with Francis Rimbert arrangements, the music for the short-lived French channel Match TV. On 7 September 2002, Jarre held a very wet and muddy concert at the Gammel Vrå Enge  [ da ] near the city of Aalborg in Denmark, with 40,000 spectators (including 5,000 VIPs). Danish band Safri Duo featured on

SECTION 20

#1732772635144

2024-590: Is openly inspired by the album Zoolook to which it pays tribute. On 5 October 2016, Democracy in Europe Movement 2025 announced that Jarre would be a member of its advisory panel. The transmedia is composed of a web documentary using Zoolook ' s creative process involving 4 international artists ( Simonne Jones , Mikael Seifu, Daedelus and Luke Vibert ); a 52' documentary film directed by Beryl Koltz broadcast in September 2015 on ARTE (with

2116-578: Is still celebrated in Russia as "Students Day" (now falling on 25 January because of the increased difference between the Julian and Gregorian calendars). Shuvalov became the university's first curator and attracted the finest scholars to teach there. He came up with the idea of establishing The Moscow News ( Московские ведомости ), a newspaper published by the university press, which was also founded at Shuvalov's instigation. Apart from two colleges affiliated with Moscow University, he also helped establish

2208-617: Is the goddess, the Maria Callas of the Orient. Then I heard " Georgia on My Mind " by Ray Charles , and I realised that music can talk to your tummy. I was so impressed by the organic sensuality coming from Ray Charles's music – there was no intellectual process and it was great. As a young man Jarre earned money by selling his paintings, exhibiting some of his works at the Lyon Gallery ;– L'Œil écoute , and by playing in

2300-638: The Confédération Internationale des Sociétés d´Auteurs et Compositeurs (CISAC). In Spring 2015, Jarre released the first music from a new studio album, released in October 2015, following around four years of work. The album, Electronica 1: The Time Machine (working title: E-Project ), comprises a number of collaborations with other artists. The first of these to be released was the collaboration with Gesaffelstein entitled Conquistador , followed by Glory , with M83 . The track

2392-568: The 1998 FIFA World Cup in France. British group Apollo 440 were credited alongside Jarre for the remix. In 2001, he released Interior Music , an album of 1,000 copies created for use by the Danish audio-visual company Bang & Olufsen stores. The album consists of two long-form pieces: "Bonjour Hello", is a 25 minute audio collage of sounds with voices saying short sentences in French, English and Danish. The second piece, "Whispers of Life",

2484-716: The Commonwealth of Independent States . In November 2012, Mikhail Basharatyan, Deputy Dean of the MSU World Economy Department, was fired for taking a bribe from a pupil. In February 2013, Andrei Andriyanov resigned as head of the Kolmogorov Special Educational and Scientific Center of the university, after an investigation concluded that he had included fake references in his doctoral thesis. In March 2022, Victor Sadovnichy, rector of Moscow State University and president of

2576-709: The EMS Synthi AKS , and recorded with a Scully 8-track recorder. Jarre initially was turned down by several record companies, until Jean-Michel decided to meet with Francis Dreyfus, the head of the Disques Motors label, to see if he could release the album, to which he accepted. The first pressing of 50,000 copies was promoted through hi-fi shops, clubs and discos, and by April 1977 had sold 70,000 copies in France. When interviewed in Billboard magazine, Motors's director Stanislas Witold said, "In

2668-550: The Fairlight CMI , a new instrument of which Jarre was a pioneer. Its digital technology allowed him to continue his earlier sonic experimentation in new ways. In that same year, the British Embassy gave Radio Beijing copies of Oxygène , Équinoxe , and Les Chants Magnétiques , which became the first pieces of foreign music to be played on Chinese national radio in decades. The Republic invited Jarre to become

2760-521: The October Revolution of 1917, the institution began to admit children of the proletariat and peasantry. In 1919, the university abolished tuition fees, and established a preparatory facility to help working-class children prepare for entrance examinations. During the implementation of Joseph Stalin 's first five-year plan (1928–32), prisoners from the Gulag were forced to construct parts of

2852-581: The Palais Garnier . He also composed background music for ballet, theatre, television programs, department stores, and advertising jingles for Pepsi-Cola , Nestlé and RTL . The music for airports, and North America libraries was composed with the VCS 3 and an Farfisa professional organ. From 1972 to 1975, Jean-Michel wrote music and lyrics for artists like Françoise Hardy , Gérard Lenorman , Christophe and Patrick Juvet . In 1972 he collaborated in

Moscow State University - Misplaced Pages Continue

2944-651: The Roland JD-800 and the Kurzweil K2000 . In the state of mind I did Chronologie , it's quite close to what I did for Oxygène , using a lot of the old synthesizers of the '70s, like the Moog synthesizer — which I consider to be the Stradivarius of electronic music — mixed with the digital sound and the beat of the dance scene of the '90s. In a sense, Chronologie is a kind of mixture between

3036-828: The Royal Albert Hall Jarre met Queen guitarist Brian May , who proposed he create a concert in Tenerife for the International Year of Astronomy , but a lack of sponsorship meant that the concert did not take place. In 2009 he was selected as the artistic director of the World Sky Race, and also accepted a role as Goodwill Ambassador for the International Year of Astronomy. In 2009 he started an indoor tour in arenas throughout Europe. On 1 March 2010, Jean-Michel Jarre started

3128-546: The Royal Victoria Dock in east London. Close to the heart of London, the location was chosen in part for its desolate environment, but also because Jarre thought the architecture was ideally suited for his music. Early in 1988 Jarre met with local officials and members of the community, but Newham Borough Council delayed their decision until 12 September, the month in which the show was due to take place. The local fire service were also concerned about access in

3220-541: The 15th Paris Apple Expo 's iMac Night , Jarre, Apple brand ambassador and friend of Steve Jobs ' created the first 3D concert, Electronic Odyssee , to mark the 50th anniversary of electronic music and the launch of the Apple iMac computer. It was enjoyed by 6000 spectators wearing special 3D glasses. Another large-scale concert followed on 31 December 1999, in the Egyptian desert near Giza . The Twelve Dreams of

3312-670: The 18th century, the university had three departments: philosophy, medicine, and law. A preparatory college was affiliated with the university until its abolition in 1812. In 1779, Mikhail Kheraskov founded a boarding school for noblemen (Благородный пансион) which in 1830 became a gymnasium for Russian nobility . The university press , run by Nikolay Novikov in the 1780s, published the newspaper in Imperial Russia: Moskovskie Vedomosti . In 1804, medical education split into clinical (therapy), surgical, and obstetrics faculties. Between 1884 and 1897,

3404-536: The 1970s with Oxygène 7–13 , dedicated to his mentor at the GRM , Pierre Schaeffer , who had died two years before. In September that year he set his fourth record for the largest-ever outdoor-concert audience with a performance at the Moscow State University , celebrating the 850th anniversary of Moscow. The event was viewed by an audience of about 3.5 million. On September 18th 1998, during

3496-463: The 50th anniversary of the United Nations. The Eiffel Tower was specially lit for the occasion, prompting the installation of a more permanent display . The following December, he created the website "A Space for Tolerance", which featured music from En Attendant Cousteau , played while the user browsed a variety of "visual worlds". In 1997, Jarre returned to the analogue synthesisers of

3588-582: The Academy and the Hermitage Museum . He also commissioned copies of the finest Roman sculptures in Rome, Florence and Naples and later presented these to the Academy of Arts. As regards politics, Shuvalov's life abroad was not as exciting as the previous period of his career. On Catherine II's request, he would go on diplomatic errands; thus it was he who persuaded Pope Pius VI to replace Durini,

3680-491: The Academy his own collection of Western drawings and paintings, which formed the nucleus of its formidable holdings of fine art. At the time, his palace also hosted performances by Russia's first theatrical troupe, led by Fyodor Volkov and Ivan Dmitrievsky . Upon Elizabeth's death and the ascension of Catherine II , Shuvalov set off for Europe, ostensibly with the purpose of improving his frail health. During fourteen years of foreign travels, he acquired choice works of art for

3772-768: The Department of Medicine built a medical campus in Devichye Pole , between the Garden Ring and Novodevichy Convent ; designed by Konstantin Bykovsky , with university doctors like Nikolay Sklifosovskiy and Fyodor Erismann acting as consultants. The campus, and medical education in general, were separated from Moscow University in 1930. Devichye Pole was operated by the independent I.M. Sechenov First Moscow State Medical University and by various other state and private institutions. The roots of student unrest in

Moscow State University - Misplaced Pages Continue

3864-710: The Groupe de Recherches Musicales (GRM), founded and led by Pierre Schaeffer , inventor of musique concrete . Jarre was introduced to the Moog modular synthesizer and spent time working at the studio of influential German composer Karlheinz Stockhausen in Cologne . In the kitchen of his apartment in Rue de la Trémoille, Jarre set up a small makeshift recording studio. It included his first synthesiser, an EMS VCS 3 , and an EMS Synthi AKS , each linked to Revox tape machines. For

3956-625: The Russian Union of Rectors, was the lead signature in a public statement endorsing the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine . In reaction, Academia Europaea , a pan-European academy, suspended the membership of Sadovnichy. In response to the Russian invasion, that same month Yale University , the Hamburg University of Applied Sciences , University of Potsdam , and HKU Business School suspended their longstanding relationships with

4048-532: The Shuvalov brothers arranged his meeting with the Empress, who was making a pilgrimage to the Monastery of St. Sabbas . The Shuvalovs were not disappointed in their calculations: the 40-year-old Empress took notice of the handsome page, who was 18 years her junior, and bid him accompany her in the upcoming pilgrimage to the New Jerusalem Monastery . Three months later, Shuvalov was appointed

4140-505: The Sun celebrated the new millennium and offered a preview of his next album, Métamorphoses , released in 2000. The show featured performances from more than 1,000 local artists and musicians, and was based on ancient Egyptian mythology about the journey of the Sun and its effect upon humanity. In 1998, British commercial broadcaster ITV used a remixed version of "Fourth Rendez-Vous" (called Rendez-Vous 98) for their television coverage of

4232-663: The album was nominated for the Grammys 2017 Awards in the "Best Dance/Electronic Album" category. In June 2015, in collaboration with Jean-Michel Jarre, the transmedia project Soundhunters was released on the platform of the Franco-German channel ARTE . The transmedia conceptualized by the Blies brothers (Stéphane Hueber-Blies and Nicolas Blies), François Le Gall and Marion Guth of the Luxembourg production company a_BAHN,

4324-459: The area, and many cars were stuck until the next day. The problems became a big issue in Danish media, since, had there been an accident, it would be extremely difficult for help to get to the location. Two years previously, nine people were killed at Roskilde Festival , which had brought focus on security at large concerts. Preparations for AERO were later proven to have been lacking, and the police investigation concluded, in part, that permission for

4416-470: The artist Pierre Soulages . His musical style was perhaps most heavily influenced by Pierre Schaeffer , a pioneer of musique concrète at the Groupe de Recherches Musicales . His first mainstream success was the 1976 album Oxygène . Recorded in a makeshift studio at his home, the album sold an estimated 18 million copies. Oxygène was followed in 1978 by Équinoxe , and in 1979, Jarre performed to

4508-590: The audio, the DVD features a visual image of Anne Parillaud 's eyes, recorded in real time as she listened to the album. Jarre used the minimalist imagery to reinforce the audio content of the DVD. In his role of UNESCO Goodwill Ambassador, Jarre performed a concert named Water for Life in Morocco, on 16 December 2006, to celebrate the United Nations Year of Desertification in the world. The performance

4600-476: The boy was ten, and Tatiana Rodionovna. The Shuvalov family fortunes changed drastically in 1741, when Empress Elizabeth Petrovna ascended to the Russian throne with help from Ivan's powerful cousins – Peter Shuvalov and Alexander Shuvalov . The following year, they had the fourteen-year-old Ivan attached to the imperial court as a page . In July 1749, when Ivan was visiting his brother-in-law Prince Galitzine at his country estate near Moscow,

4692-533: The buildings to be used as a backdrop was painted white. One large mirror ball being transported to the event fell onto the roadside, causing a degree of confusion as some people mistook it for a fallen satellite . World War II searchlights were installed, to illuminate the sky and surrounding architecture. Along with thousands in the surrounding streets and parks, 200,000 people watched Jarre and guests such as guitarist Hank Marvin perform in less than ideal conditions. Inclement weather had threatened to break

SECTION 50

#1732772635144

4784-461: The city's skyscrapers into spectacular backdrops for an elaborate display of fireworks and lasers. Rendez-vous Houston entered the Guinness Book of Records for its audience of over 1.5 million, beating his earlier record, set in 1979. The display was so impressive that a nearby freeway was blocked by passing vehicles, forcing the authorities to close it for the duration of the concert. Several months later he performed to an audience of about

4876-538: The concert at the Meridian Gate, and each concert was transmitted nationwide on live television. Jarre collaborated with musician Chen Lin. Accompanying his traditional musical repertoire, 600 projectors shone coloured light and images across various screens and objects. In September 2004, Jarre released both a DVD and a CD in one package AERO . A compilation album made in 5.1 surround sound , it contains re-recorded versions of some of his most famous tracks, including tracks from Oxygène and Équinoxe . Accompanying

4968-471: The concert should not have been granted. Reactions from spectators were mixed, some claiming it was unsafe, and others saying it was a case of overreacting. A concert in September of that same year at a wind farm near Aalborg in Denmark proved problematic when 22 mm of rain fell on the venue, causing long delays for spectators. It also marked a change in direction in Jarre's live concerts; from Rendez-vous Houston onwards he had been accompanied by

5060-434: The concerts to be free, but the Chinese authorities decided to charge between £0.20 and £0.50 per ticket. In 1982, recordings of the concerts, which featured one of Jarre's signature electronic instruments, the laser harp , were released as a double-disc LP . Between February and May 1983, Jarre recorded a single LP copy of an album entitled Musique pour Supermarché ( English : Music for Supermarkets ) whose objective

5152-410: The education of the most gifted boys from all strata of society. At first no formal examination was required to enter the Academy; even peasants' children – like Fyodor Rokotov and Fedot Shubin  – were admitted on Shuvalov's personal recommendation. Shuvalov served as the Academy's first president until 1763, when he was succeeded by Ivan Betskoy . In 1758, he donated to

5244-459: The event of a fire. Site work continued as Jarre's team searched for alternative locations in which to stage the concert, but following improvements to both on and off-site safety Jarre eventually won conditional approval on 28 September to stage two separate performances, on 8 and 9 October. The floating stage on which Jarre and his musicians performed was built on top of four large barges . Large purpose-built display screens were built, and one of

5336-415: The first Russian college outside Moscow – in Kazan . He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1758. In 1757, Shuvalov submitted to the Governing Senate his project for establishing the Academy of Three Noble Arts at his own palace in Saint Petersburg . This institution – later transformed into the Imperial Academy of Arts  – was envisioned by him for

5428-421: The first time in music, you could act as a painter with frequencies and sounds." He was also influenced by classical, modernist music. In a 2004 interview for The Guardian , he spoke of the effect that a performance of Stravinsky 's The Rite of Spring had upon him: This is where Stravinsky created it in 1913, and it was a huge shock. I also saw the last concert by the great Arabic singer Om Khalsoum . She

5520-424: The first western musician to play in post- Mao Zedong China. The performances were scheduled to run from 18 October to 5 November 1981. 5 concerts were performed, two in Beijing and three in Shanghai . The first, in Beijing, was initially attended mostly by officials, but before the concert began, technicians realised that not enough power was available to supply the stage and auditorium. Chinese officials solved

5612-445: The main building. The building on Mokhovaya Street houses the Faculty of Journalism , the Faculty of Psychology , and Institute of Asian and African Countries . A number of faculty buildings are located near Manege Square in the centre of Moscow and a number of campuses abroad in Ukraine , Kazakhstan , Tajikistan and Uzbekistan . The Ulyanovsk branch of MSU was reorganized into Ulyanovsk State University in 1996. As of 2009,

SECTION 60

#1732772635144

5704-451: The newly expanded university. In 1970, the university imposed a 2% quota on Jewish students. A 2014 article entitled "Math as a tool of anti-semitism" in The Mathematics Enthusiast discussed antisemitism in the Moscow State University's Department of Mathematics during the 1970s and 1980s. In the mid-1980s, the Dean of MSU's law faculty was dismissed for taking bribes. After 1991, nine new faculties were established. The following year,

5796-445: The part was performed by McNair's friend, American saxophonist Kirk Whalum : I remember just before take-off, Ron calling me in Paris saying "Everything's ready, see you in a week's time, watch me on television for the take-off" ... I will really, keep always, the bit of Ron's smile and Ron's face in my heart. About 2,000 projectors shone images onto buildings and giant screens up to 1,200 feet (370 m) high, transforming

5888-503: The pavement, the young Jarre was able to observe street performers at work, an experience he later cited as proving influential on his art. Jarre struggled with classical piano studies, although he later changed teachers and worked on his scales. A more general interest in musical instruments was sparked by his discovery at the Saint-Ouen flea market, where his mother sold antiques, of a Boris Vian trumpet violin . He often accompanied his mother to Le Chat Qui Pêche (The Fishing Cat),

5980-505: The post-war era, Joseph Stalin ordered seven tiered neoclassic towers to be built around the city. It was built using Gulag labour, as were many of Stalin's Great Construction Projects in Russia. The MSU main building was the tallest building in Europe until 1990. The central tower is 240 m tall, 36 stories high. Along with the university administration, the Museum of Earth Sciences and faculties of Mechanics and Mathematics , Geology, Geography , and Fine and Performing Arts are in

6072-424: The problem by temporarily cutting power to the surrounding districts. The stadium was almost full when the concert began, but as Beijing's buses stopped running at about 10 o'clock, about half the audience left before it finished. To boost the audience attendance for the second night, Jarre and his production team purchased some of the concert tickets and gave them to children on the streets. Jarre originally wanted

6164-446: The promotion of fine arts in his country. A model of the enlightened courtier, he maintained correspondence with the leading French thinkers – Helvetius , d'Alembert , Diderot , and Voltaire . He supplied the latter with materials necessary for his Histoire de l'empire de Russie sous Pierre le Grand and was later instrumental in publishing it in Russia. Shuvalov's activity brought him in touch with Mikhail Lomonosov ,

6256-400: The purpose-built pyramidal stage and other technical and financial problems made staging the concert impossible. Jarre's disappointment was such that he "could not cope with Mexican food for two years". About two years later he released Chronologie , an album that features Jarre's traditional collection of instruments like the ARP 2600 and Minimoog , as well as newer synthesisers such as

6348-412: The second leg of his 2009–2010 Indoors tour; on 10 June, he was presented with a Lifetime Achievement Award by Mojo magazine . On 1 July 2011, Jarre performed a large-scale concert in Monaco to celebrate the marriage of Prince Albert and his bride Charlene . A later concert was held at Carthage during the city's 12 August 2013 musical festival. In June 2013, Jarre was elected as president of

6440-477: The some international rankings MSU is the highest-ranked Russian university (with the nearest Russian competitor being Saint Petersburg State University ), but it was consistently ranked outside the top 5 nationally in 2010–11 by Forbes and Ria Novosti / HSE , with both ratings based on data set collected by HSE from Russian Unified State Exam scores averaged per all students and faculties of university. The university has contacts with universities throughout

6532-406: The sounds of the '70s and the sounds of the '90s. Jarre was invited to the inaugural celebrations of the Palace of the Lost City, a hotel located within the Sun City in South Africa. Three concerts were held on 1, 2 and 3 December 1992, in which more than 45,000 people attended. Chronologie was performed at a series of 16 performances across Europe called Europe in Concert . These were on

6624-533: The stage from its moorings, putting paid to the original plan to float the stage across the Royal Victoria Dock. Wind speeds were so high that television cameras were blown over. On the second evening the audience, which included Diana, Princess of Wales , was soaked by rain and wind. In 1990, Jarre released En Attendant Cousteau ( Waiting for Cousteau ), a tribute to the French oceanographer Jacques-Yves Cousteau . On Bastille Day he performed

6716-420: The track "Aero", which in fact was Bourges 2 from the performance earlier that year, and Rendez-Vous 4. The concert was broadcast live on various TV stations around the world and a shortened one-hour version was made available for rebroadcast. By no fault of Jarre, due to 22 millimeters of rain and lack of proper preparation for and execution of the event, it took several hours for all people to be able to leave

6808-468: The university gained a unique status: it is funded directly from the state budget (bypassing the Ministry of Education). On 6 September 1997, French electronic musician Jean Michel Jarre used the front of the university as the backdrop for a concert . The concert attracted a paying crowd of half a million people. In 2007, MSU Rector Viktor Sadovnichy said that corruption in Russia's education system

6900-494: The university had 39 faculties and 15 research centres. A number of small faculties opened, such as Faculty of Physics and Chemistry and Higher School of Television . The full list of faculties is as follows: In world rankings, MSU was ranked 101st–150th by the Academic Ranking of World Universities 2022, #75 by QS World University Rankings 2023 , and #355 by U.S. News & World Report 2023. According to

6992-750: The university he had established. While living at his palace, the poet Ermil Kostrov produced the first Russian translation of the Iliad . After his imperial lover's demise, Shuvalov never married and had no children. He died at the Shuvalov Mansion in Saint Petersburg on 14 November 1797. His tomb is in the Annunciation Church of the Alexander Nevsky Monastery . In 2003, a memorial statue of Shuvalov

7084-667: The university reach deep into the nineteenth century. In 1905, a social-democratic organization emerged at the university and called for the overthrow of the Czarist government and the establishment of a republic in Russia. The imperial government repeatedly threatened to close the university. In 1911, in a protest over the introduction of troops onto the campus and mistreatment of certain professors, 130 scientists and professors resigned en masse , including Nikolay Dimitrievich Zelinskiy , Pyotr Nikolaevich Lebedev , and Sergei Alekseevich Chaplygin ; thousands of students were expelled. After

7176-879: The university's research institutes and facilities. More than 40,000 undergraduates and 7,000 advanced degree candidates are enrolled. Annually, the university hosts approximately 2,000 students, graduate students, and researchers from around the world. As of 2017, 13 Nobel laureates, 6 Fields Medal winners and one Turing Award winner had been affiliated with the university. It is the alma mater of writers Anton Chekhov , Boris Pasternak , and Ivan Turgenev ; politicians Mikhail Gorbachev , Mikhail Suslov , and Ruslan Khasbulatov ; and mathematicians and physicists Vladimir Arnold , Boris Demidovich , Vladimir Drinfeld , Vitaly Ginzburg , Andrey Kolmogorov , Grigory Margulis , Andrei Sakharov , and Yakov Sinai . Ivan Shuvalov Ivan Ivanovich Shuvalov (Russian: Иван Иванович Шувалов ; 1 November 1727 – 26 November 1797)

7268-571: The university, and the University of St Andrews suspended a joint master's degree programme with the university. Intel and AMD , the largest chip manufacturers in the world, whose processors are used in the Moscow State University supercomputer , as well as Nvidia , reacted by suspending deliveries of their processors to Russia. Since 1953, most of the faculties have been situated on Sparrow Hills , in southwest Moscow. In

7360-838: The world, exchanging students and lecturers. It houses the UNESCO International Demography Courses and Hydrology Courses. In 1991 the French University College, the Russian-American University, and the Institute of German Science and Culture were opened. The institution's academic reputation was severely undermined because of its support for the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine . (See: sanctions ). The university employs more than 4,000 academics and 15,000 support staff. Approximately 5,000 researchers work at

7452-733: Was Jewish . When Jarre was five, his parents separated and his father moved to the United States, leaving him with his mother. He did not see his father again until reaching the age of 18. For the first eight years of his life, Jarre spent six months each year at his maternal grandparents' flat on the Cours de Verdun, in the Perrache district of Lyon. Jarre's grandfather was an oboe player, engineer and inventor, designing an early audio mixer used at Radio Lyon. He also gave Jean-Michel his first tape recorder. From his vantage point high above

7544-517: Was a "systemic illness," and that he had seen an ad guaranteeing a perfect score on entrance exams to MSU, for a significant fee. On 19 March 2008, Russia's most powerful supercomputer to date, the SKIF MSU ( Russian : СКИФ МГУ ; skif means ' Scythian ' in Russian) was launched at the university. Its peak performance of 60 TFLOPS ( LINPACK – 47.170 TFLOPS) made it the fastest supercomputer in

7636-475: Was also featured as part of the soundtrack of a short film entitled EMIC . Other collaborations on the album include Tangerine Dream for Zero Gravity ; Armin van Buuren for " Stardust ", John Carpenter for "A Question of Blood" , Little Boots for If..! and Pete Townshend for Travelator, Pt. 2 . The album became Jarre's first album in over 25 years to make the UK Top 10 at No. 8. In December 2016,

7728-532: Was at first unimpressed by the proposal, on a later visit to the city, he was immediately impressed by the visual grandeur of the city's skyline and agreed to perform. Also, 1985 marked the 25th anniversary of the foundation of the Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center ; and NASA asked Jarre to integrate the anniversary into the concert. Jarre worked with several Houston-based astronauts , including Bruce McCandless II and Ronald McNair , an accomplished musician who

7820-490: Was based around multiple fragments of human voices pronouncing words and speeches in different languages from all over the world, recorded digitally by Jarre and then played back and edited on the Fairlight CMI . In 1985, Jarre was invited by the musical director of the Houston Grand Opera to perform a concert celebrating Texas 's 150th anniversary on 5 April 1986. Although he was busy with other projects and

7912-563: Was called the Maecenas (patron) of the Russian Enlightenment , the first Russian Minister of Education and Active Privy Councillor (1773). Russia's first theatre, university, and academy of arts were instituted with his active participation. A favorite of Elizaveta Petrovna of Russia ; friend of the scientist M.V. Lomonosov . He was born in Moscow, the only son of Ivan Menshoi Shuvalov, an army captain who died when

8004-586: Was in front of the Erg Chebbi Dunes of Merzouga , in the Sahara . A free event, it was attended by about 25,000 people. Images of water and the environment were projected onto nine vertical screens, held in place by sand which was watered to keep it hard. Several permanent drinking fountains were built on the site, along with a permanent electricity installation. Jarre was accompanied by over 60 Moroccan artists. Jarre released Téo & Téa in 2007,

8096-590: Was released on CD again. The album cover is a pixelated and turned counter-clockwise photo of Jarre's girlfriend at the time, Isabelle Adjani . In October 2004 he returned to China to open its "Year of France" cultural exchange. Jarre gave two performances, the first at the Meridian Gate of the Forbidden City , and the second in Tiananmen Square . More than 15,000 spectators watched

8188-556: Was the first Western musician officially invited to perform in the People's Republic of China and held the world record for the largest-ever audience at an outdoor event for his Moscow concert on 6 September 1997, which was attended by 3.5 million people. Jean-Michel Jarre was born in Lyon on 24 August 1948, to Francette Pejot, a French Resistance member and concentration camp survivor, and composer Maurice Jarre . His grandmother

8280-459: Was to be the soundtrack of a show called Orrimbe, to later be auctioned with the master tapes and plates destroyed. The album was later broadcast exclusively on Radio Luxembourg with Jarre encouraging listeners to record the broadcast. In 1984, he released seventh studio album Zoolook . In this album he expanded the sample-based approach which had been initiated on Les Chants Magnétiques and continued on Music for Supermarkets . The album

8372-652: Was to have played the saxophone on "Rendez-Vous VI", recorded in the weightless environment of space. The live performance was curtailed by McNair's death in the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster on 28 January 1986. Consideration was given to the cancellation of the concert; but McCandless contacted Jarre and urged him to proceed, in memory of the shuttle's crew. McNair's saxophone piece was recorded by French saxophonist Pierre Gossez and retitled "Ron's Piece". At Jarre's giant concerts in Houston and Lyon,

8464-543: Was unveiled in the inner court of the Academy of Arts in St. Petersburg. Its sculptor is Zurab Tsereteli , the current president of the Academy that Shuvalov founded. Another commemorative statue was erected in front of the Moscow State University Library in 2004. Jean Michel Jarre Jean-Michel André Jarre ( French pronunciation: [ʒɑ̃ miʃɛl ɑ̃dʁe ʒaʁ] ; born 24 August 1948)

#143856