Secrets of Geniuses

Mikhail Kazinik is a remarkable man: art critic, musician, poet, writer, actor, director, playwright, educator, and one of the most erudite people of our time. It is not easy to take in the full scope of his activities at a glance.
Here he is as the musical expert of the Nobel Concert, here he is conducting conferences for doctors on the healing power of music, or conferences for businesspeople at the Scandinavian School of Business, or cycles of immersion in art at the Stockholm Dramatic Institute.
And his joint productions with Yuri Lederman at the charming old theatre of the capital of the Swedish Kingdom! A theatre that the press calls "the theatre that thinks."
He permanently lives in Sweden, but when asked where he works, he takes out a small globe and says: "On this planet."
The power of his impact on audiences is enormous. Numerous concerts, Mozart festivals high in the mountains of Norway, art appreciation lectures for young people in Germany, artistic programs for the SBS broadcasting company in Australia — always an event. The equal participation of Word, Music, Poetry, Philosophy, and elements of Theatre brings to the halls not only lovers of classical music, but representatives of the most diverse circles and professions, and of course young people.
Mikhail Kazinik is the author of 60 films about world musical culture: the cycle of musical and journalistic programs "Ad libitum, or IN FREE FLIGHT" is broadcast in Sweden as part of the national cultural program; in Russia on the TVC channel; in America, Israel, countries of Asia and Africa, and Canada on the TVCi channel. He also hosts cycles of authored programs with great success on Radio Silver Rain and Radio Orpheus.
"I am not a popularizer of music or any other art form. Those who do this often destroy its meaning. My task is entirely different — to spiritually tune a person to the wavelength, to the vibrations that emanate from the creations of poetry, music, literature, and painting. Any true art is a transmitter, and a person who for various reasons is not tuned to its frequency is a broken receiver. I repair him," says Mikhail Kazinik.

Instead of an annotation, let us give the floor to Mikhail Kazinik himself:
I am often asked how I manage to do everything: write poetry and books, give concerts and deliver lectures at universities, play the violin and piano, appear on radio programs and host the Nobel Concert, appear in films about art and teach in a gymnasium? What can I say?
There are people who work as programmers and in their spare time compose music or paint pictures. That, in my view, is not easy to combine. I, however, constantly work in one sphere — the sphere of art. Not one of my activities goes beyond its boundaries. I don't even have a hobby.
And the task is one: by means of art, to reveal the innate genius of my listeners and readers, their incredible capacity for perceiving that cosmic energy which gave birth to Bach and Shakespeare, Mozart and... each one of us. I believe in the genius of the Human Being on this Planet. I believe in the possibility of opening people's eyes, of removing the barriers between the Moment and Eternity. One need only remove the blinkers from one's eyes and find that "magic crystal" of which A.S. Pushkin writes. And all the primitive conveyor-belt "pop" will fall away like husks, and there will emerge a Human Being equal to the Cosmos. And a new era of the Renaissance will begin, once again coming to replace the pop idols and wretched mass spectacles of today's dark ages...