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A ___ concert (often abbreviated to prom) is a type of popular symphony concert in Britain.

A cousin heard him the other day and screamed ___ enthusiasm.

A friend of mine prefers thrillers and musicals,___?

A lot of people ___ cannot play any musical instrument love to listen to music either at home or at a concert.

A museum may also contain works of art, such as paintings, drawing and sculpture, but that is not generally ___ main purpose, at least in Britain.

A promenade concert in Britain has the following features:

A promenade concert is a type of popular ___ concert in Britain, which takes place every evening for a season during the summer, and where many of the audience stand and the atmosphere is very informal.

Agatha Christie

All shows in the Royal National Theatre are usually in ___, which means you can see many productions in a week.

American jazz is a conglomeration of sounds borrowed from such varied sources as

Among ___ favourite works are six pictures united under the title “Marriage a la Mode.”

An ___ museum, as its name implies, is not a building, but a collection of exhibits, usually architectural, arranged outside.

Animated cartoons are very popular because they are funny and amusing,___?

Another whom we adore when he plays ___ piano turned the pages.

As a president of the Royal Academy Reynolds ___ lectures.

Born in1868 to former slaves, Scott Joplin earned his living from a very early age ___ the piano in bars around the Mississippi.

Built to impress and dominate the people of London, ___ has been a severe symbol of power throughout its 900-year history.

But the man who should ___ turned the pages played the violin.

Certainly amateur theatre is very popular: productions take ___ in nearly every town in Britain.

Cheques are not accepted ___ they are accompanied by a cheque guarantee card.

Children are permitted in the museum on the ___that they do not disturb the other tourists.

Contemporary changes in motion pictures in the United States include

Contrasts of light and shade in a context of flowing, curved and broken lines, produce an impression of animation and mobility which is the characteristic of ___ art.

Different people like different kinds ___ music.

Do you fancy (go) to the Drama theatre on Sunday?

Do you know any Russian films which (win) International Prizes?

During the 18th century the truly national school of painting was created, ___was the first great English painter who raised British pictorial art to a high level of importance.

During the early stages ___ cinematography in Russia the film makers concentrated on documentaries, as the most operative and politically important genre.

During the winter, many people ___ short vacations to places with warm climates, like Florida and the islands of the Caribbean.

Even small villages may have a group of players ___produce a play once or twice a year.

From child prodigy to adult creative genius, Michael Jackson’s career is the ___successful in pop music history.

Gainsborough is the purest lyrics of English painters, ___– the master of the epic style.

Have you two seats ___ for The Sleeping Beauty for Saturday?

He began his collection in 1856 ___ the purchase of “Temptation” (1856) by N. Shilder and “Finnish Smugglers” (1853) by V. Khudyakov.

He is glad to go there,___?

He liked music but didn't play ___ piano.

He liked the film immensely,___?

He never went to ___ theatre or to the cinema.

He prefers feature films though I enjoy documentaries al most as much, to say nothing of animated cartoon films,___?

He was ___friendly terms with many progressive, democratic Russian painters, frequenting their studios, taking an active interest in their work, and helping them financially.

Her dancing leaves an ___ impression.

His aunt said that nobody plays the violin better ___ he does.

His collection grew rapidly; by 1872 a special building ___ erected to house it.

How ___ do you go to the cinema?

How ___ novels did Agatha Christie write?

How ___ you find the scenery?

However, classical music also includes music ___ written now, and we may therefore speak of modern classical music.

However, nobody bought a ticket since the soloist ___ unknown.

I ___ tried to get tickets beforehand several times.

I don't like films ___ on any book.

I hope you’ll have a good time,___?

I know they ___showing an interesting collection of sculptures in the National Gallery.

I like musicals best of all, ___?

I made up my mind to see this film,___?

I see all the best films that are on in London,___?

I think it is better if we ___ the plot of a film.

I'm a great cinema-goer,___?

I'm fond of serious films,___?

I'm very thankful to you ___ this lovely eve ning.

I've already (book) seats by telephone.

If you are a theatre-___ , you will choose a play you want to see.

If you become separated from the tour, please ___your way to the coach pick-up point.

If you have completed the ___form, I give you the membership card.

In 1930 we ___ the production of sound films.

In December 1768 the Royal Academy was founded and ___became its first president.

In December, as Christmas gets closer, ___ (usually, but not always, with a religious theme) are sung in churches and schools, often at special concerts.

In England the word "cinema" is used ___ we mean a building for showing films but "pictures" is also British English and more colloquial than cinema.

In Russia it applies particularly to the churches and cathedrals such as those in ___Moscow Kremlin.

In one showing there are usually a main film (called the main feature), a shorter one, a news film, some advertisements and a "trailer" ___ about the film for the next week.

In order that his collection ___ reflect the centuries-old traditions of Russian art he acquired works of various epochs and also began a collection of antique icons.

In the audience was Alfred Cortot, the brilliant pianist, who volunteered and ___ his way to the stage.

In the event of an accident, the alarm___.

In the second half of the 18th century ___ was the most outstanding portraitist of the period.

It has ___ said that the level of amateur involvement in the arts is higher in Britain than anywhere else.

It is ___ skyline in the USA that is for many people the symbol the modern big city.

It is absolutely vital that all tour guides have ___the local history course.

It is very difficult to get tickets,___?

It was a really ___ excursion.

It was he who insisted that artists ___be brought up in line with European art and that they should develop the Grand style of painting.

It was there that he began writing the more than 500 compositions that he was to produce, the most famous of ___ was “The Maple Leaf Rag”.

Its power lies in its ability to present our life in highly artistic images, in the ability to see new elements and to study the problems which occupy the modern cinema-goers.

It’s not always so easy ___ at the last minute.

I’ll collect the tickets and pay ___ the performance.

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John ___, an English landscape painter, painted many well-known works (“A Cottage in a Cornfield”, “The Loch”).

London is the theatrical centre with 100 theatres in the ___ End and suburbs.

Ma ny famous film stars were ___ the cast.

Ma ny famous film stars were in the cast, ___?

Many adult Americans regularly engage ___ sports like tennis, softball, golf and bowling.

Many people were standing at the entrance of the theatre asking if we had an extra ticket as a sign at the entrance of the theatre said “House ___”.

Match the words, connected with art, with the correct definitions.

Match the words, connected with cinema, with the correct definitions.

Most shows ___between 90 minutes and slightly under three hours.

Museum is a building in which objects illustrating___ are displayed.

Museum’ is not appropriate in cases ___ the building itself is of prime importance, rather then what is displayed there, or where nothing is displayed.

Music in the lives of different people is different: some compose music, others play music, and others only listen ___ it.

Musical instruments 25,000 years old have ___ found in Hungary.

My friend managed to see their ___ last Monday.

My mother bought two tickets for a ___ of the ballet “Sleeping Beauty” by Tchaikovsky beforehand.

My son plays ___ guitar.

Next week they are announcing a new film produced by Focus Features,___?

On his 100th birthday, the jazz musician Eubie Blake said, ‘If I’d known I was going live this long I’d have ___ better care of myself.”

Once I even tried to pick ___ a ticket at the entrance, but I never succeeded.

One of the recognizable characteristics of jazz is its use of___ .

Our seats are ___ the tenth row.

Our seats are in the tenth row,___?

Painting in England in the 17-19th centuries ___ represented by a number of great artists and during that period it was greatly influenced by foreign painters.

People who live in small towns near London don’t often go to the theatre or cinema in London as the cost of the journey and the higher ___ of seats in London make this too expensive.

Performances and exhibitions are usually very well attended in the USA and tickets can be hard to get, despite their ___ prices!

Reynolds did not want British art ___be provincial and isolated.

Several important movements spread from ___ into international art, are Abstract Expressionism and Action Painting, Pop-art, Minimal art, and Photorealism.

She has just come to the cinema in time,___?

She wants to leave the tickets ___ your name at the box-office.

Short classical works or excerpts which are easy to listen to, either because the composer’s aim was simply to entertain, or because of their familiarity are called ___ classical music.

Smell of ___ being fried is for most people so much a part of Sunday mornings that they would not be the same without it.

So you’ll book tickets___.

Some violins made by Antonio Stradivari (1644-1737) are ___ over $1 million.

Specialised museums contain objects ___ to a particular sphere of activity, for example, the theatre, musical instruments, railways.

Students are allowed into the museum at reduced rates provided that they have a ___ students’ card.

The British Museum includes also the British Library, which is the national library of the United Kingdom and ranks among the greatest libraries in ___.

The English king personally invited ___ to London and during his first year in England the painter spent most of his time painting the King and the Queen.

The Flemish painter ___ was really the father of English portrait school.

The Gallery’s centenary was widely ___ throughout Russia in May 1856.

The National Theatre Company performs at the National Theatre on the south ___ of the Thames.

The Round-house and Royal Court and Mermaid Theatres in London put ___ modern plays.

The Royal Shakespeare Company presents Shakespearean plays and a mixed repertoire in ___ and ___.

The Royal ___ Company performs at the Barbican Theatre in the City of London and at the Shakespeare memorial Theatre at Stratford-on-Avon.

The ___ by A. L. Webber have been a great success both in Britain and overseas.

The ___ musical instrument in the world is a Swiss alphorn which measures over 13 metres from end to end.

The ___promotes knowledge of British culture and literature overseas and encourages professional interchange in all cultural fields between Britain and other countries.

The actors have been ___ the play all this week.

The actress who played his wife was not bad either, ___ she?

The best-___ of the ragtime performers and composers was Scott Joplin.

The center of theatrical activity in Britain is ___.

The cinema is not emptied between the performances, so that once you have paid for your seat you can stay in the cinema ___ long as you like.

The earliest form of jazz was___ , lively songs or rags performed on the piano.

The early films ___ only the beginning of the real triumph-which was "The Battleship Potemkin" (1926) produced by Sergei Eisenstein.

The expressions ‘art museum’, ‘museum of art’ are used in ___of building where works of art are shown.

The feature film ran for an hour and a half, ___?

The film is ___ at our local cinema.

The film is on at our local cinema, ___?

The films shot ___ World War II were a worthy contribution to the common struggle for victory over the enemy.

The first performance or showing in Great Britain begins about two o'clock in the afternoon and goes ___ from then until about half past ten.

The great music of the past in other countries has always been built on ___.

The inventors of cinema were

The main ___ of classical works include symphonies, overtures, suites, sonatas, duets, trios, quartets, etc.

The man ___ we adore when he plays the violin played the piano.

The national Youth Theatre ___ members are all young people, produces plays at home and abroad during the summer.

The other day he saw a film,___?

The performance was ___ from beginning to end.

The performance was a great ___ with the public.

The play simply ___ me to death.

The prices of cinema seats ___ London are between three pounds and five pounds.

The public took this film ___ heart because the prob lems it touches upon are interesting to everybody.

The public took this film to heart because the prob lems it touches upon are interesting to everybody,___?

The repertoire of the concerts may have classical, light, folk, jazz and pop___ .

The soloist was ___ uniformly low standard.

The two main concert halls in London are The Old Royal Albert Hall and the New Royal Festival Hall, ___ is one of the most modern concert halls in the world.

There are a few bad musicians who have a chance to give a recital ___ famous concert hall while still learning the rudiments of their instrument.

There are many types of concerts and recitals, for___ , a pop concert, a jazz concert, a symphony concert and a promenade concert.

There are thousands of Americans who prefer the music and ___ of musicals.

There was a storm of applause after the end of the play, wasn’t___?

There you can get ___ best of everything – an excellent orchestra, famous conductors and celebrated performers.

These lectures were regarded ___the most sensible exposition of the Academic view that by well-directed work it was possible to learn the rules of art and use discoveries and ideas of the old masters to create a new style of one’s own.

They often depict the everyday life of a particular group of people (a family, people living in the same street, colleagues, etc.)

They say it is done very well, ___?

This film has been dubbed in Russian,___?

This happened about thirty years ago to the son of Rumanian gentleman who ___ owned a personal favour by Georges Enesco, the celebrated violinist.

This very film had a successful run as the cast was good and the plot was thrilling,___?

Thomas ___ , one of the greatest masters of the English school, was a portraitist and a landscape painter.

Though feature films were far ___ perfect they had a strong influence on their cinema au dience.

Three years later the boy’s father insisted ___ he gave a public concert.

Tretyakov was aware of the national importance of his vast collection of Russian art and presented it to the city of Moscow in 1892, thus ___ the first museum in Russia.

Tretyakov was one of the ___people of his time who realised the great intrinsic value of ancient Russian art.

Uncle Oscar never complained ___ his boring life.

Uncle Oscar showed me some stamps and explained ___ they were really very expensive.

We are going ___ the new film that is on this week.

We'll meet you ___ half an hour near the cinema.

Weekend automobile ___ are traditional for many families in the USA and Great Britain.

We’ve got only seven minutes___.

What (be) travelo gues usually about?

What (do) a cinema program me consist of?

What is ___at the "Odeon"?

What was the last film you (see)?

When ___ Agatha Christie become famous?

When ___William Shakespeare born?

When a musician improvises, he

When did you go to the theatre last? — I ___ there five days ago.

When new interesting plays are on, it is not easy to get tickets, because the theatres play to ___ houses every night.

When the last curtain fell, the house burst out into ___.

Where ___ we go tonight?

Where was Mark Twain___ ?

Why don't you find us a story we can make ___ a play?

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With an audience we'll have ___ speak very clearly.

Wolfgang Amadeus ___ wrote his last three symphonies in 42 days.

Yesterday the public ___ this film to heart because the prob lems it touched upon were interesting to everybody.

Yesterday the public took this film to heart because the prob lems it touched ___were interesting to everybody.

You can purchase tickets to Broadway shows ___ the Internet.

You could never see him in the sitting room in ___ of the television watching sports programs.

You know I like historical films better ___ any other kind.

You like matinees, don’t___?

You may prefer pop or rock music, country or folk music, classical music or jazz, but you certainly cannot think of a day ___ music.

You ought to make a point of going to the music-hall ___least once during a season.

You should think about the admission to the concert beforehand, because usually the house is ___ out long in advance.

You'd bet ter take opera ___to see the stage better.

___ Tretyakov Gallery, founded by Pavel Mikhailovich Tretyakov (1832-1889), a Moscow merchant and art patron, is a national treasury of Russian art.

___ created the impressive, formal type of portrait.

___ in New York City relied heavily on revivals, long-running shows, and stage spectaculars in addition to new plays.

___ invented new ways of using traditional English building materials, brick and ordinary roofing tiles, to keep within the limits of classical design.

___ is playing Hamlet?

___ is sometimes considered the forerunner or the impressionists.

___ is well known as a humorist and satirist on canvas.

___ is your favourite theatre actor?

___ of them was the greatest American humorist?

___ of them wrote in the golden age of English literature?

___ paintings are on permanent exhibition.

___ pictures of social life which he called “modern moral subjects” brought him fame and position.

___ refers to the plays, musicals, and special attractions presented in any of 39 designated playhouses in Manhattan's Theatre District.

___ was James Chase's native city?

___ was one of the first English artists to paint his native land (“Sunset”, “The Bridge”) and others.

___ you doing anything today, Mike?

___music is the music of the past, up to and including the works of nineteenth century composers.

___postwar period brought us many new achievements, extended our technical possibilities, enriched our artistic language.

___usually painted his characters in heroic style and showed them as the best people of the nation.