Silence in the conservatory: why the Academy of Music introduced “shoe” etiquette – in the plot of ONT
The tradition of changing shoes was revived after the overhaul of the building on the street International.
In the main building of the Academy of Music, everything is changed: from the rector to students. Heels publish only false notes, and therefore are recognized as a bad tone. Because silence should be in the conservatory! Maybe the floors are creaking, maybe something else. But the tradition is almost seven decades. It was rebuilt after a recent renovation.
Autumn is already on its way. And since then, in the score of the main building of the Academy of Music, the shift is the second shoe. It concerns everyone who enters the address. Such an example is “under the heel” of the rector himself.
Elena Kurakina, Rector of the Belarusian State Academy of Music: “It is recorded in the most serious document for our students – this is the Internal Regulations of Students.” Where it is literally written that when you are in the educational building No. 1 on the street International, 30, you need to use replaceable shoes or shoes. All the deans have already purchased a certain amount of bagils, if suddenly one of the students will not. After a major overhaul, this is one of those ways to leave that beauty behind.”.
The dress code at the Academy of Music is a business style, although not strict. And this is not a fashionable sentence in a single creative university. You don't have to go far. “Smenka” is a classic at the Rimsky-Korsakov St. Petersburg Conservatory.
Alexander Matyas, ONT correspondent: In such spaces, any extraneous noise becomes part of the educational and concert program. Screaking or knocking shoes can spoil a quiet climax, for example, in Chopin's nocturnes. So a soft sole or heel without unnecessary sounds here is not just a tribute to etiquette, but a respect for the acoustics of the place.”.
