{"id":250,"date":"2017-03-13T09:08:00","date_gmt":"2017-03-13T08:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/incenseofmusic.com\/?p=250"},"modified":"2026-09-24T18:23:19","modified_gmt":"2026-09-24T16:23:19","slug":"incense-of-music-no-11-shilkloper-neselovskyi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/incenseofmusic.com\/en\/2017\/03\/13\/incense-of-music-no-11-shilkloper-neselovskyi\/","title":{"rendered":"Incense of Music 13 &#8211; Shilkloper, Neselovskyi"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"250\" class=\"elementor elementor-250\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-section-wrap\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-3e0f07e elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"3e0f07e\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-row\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-48bd53e\" data-id=\"48bd53e\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-aabe76e elementor-widget elementor-widget-html\" data-id=\"aabe76e\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"html.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\n<div class=\"iom-concert\">\n \n  <p class=\"iom-title\">Incense of Music 13<\/p>\n  <p class=\"iom-subtitle\">An olfactory concert \u2013 <strong>Sunday, 2 April 2017, 9 pm<\/strong> (doors 8 pm)<\/p>\n \n  <div class=\"iom-musicians\">\n    <p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/incenseofmusic.com\/arkady-shilkloper-horns\/\">Arkady Shilkloper<\/a><\/strong>: French horn, alphorn, flugelhorn<\/p>\n    <p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/incenseofmusic.com\/vadim-neselovskyi-piano\/\">Vadim Neselovskyi<\/a><\/strong>: piano, melodica<\/p>\n  <\/div>\n \n  <p class=\"iom-incense\">Incense: <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/incenseofmusic.com\/birke\/\">Birch<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/incenseofmusic.com\/bernstein\/\">Amber<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n \n  <p class=\"iom-location\">Palais im Roten Salon, Volksb\u00fchne Berlin \u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.volksbuehne-berlin.de\/praxis\/the_incence_of_music_no_13\/?id_datum=11544\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Volksb\u00fchne link<\/a><\/p>\n \n  <p><a href=\"https:\/\/incenseofmusic.com\/arkady-shilkloper-horns\/\">Arkady Shilkloper<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/incenseofmusic.com\/vadim-neselovskyi-piano\/\">Vadim Neselovskyi<\/a> have formed an unusual duo by jazz standards for several years now. Horn and piano \u2014 a chamber-music pairing that deliberately forgoes any rhythmic support such as bass or drums \u2014 produces a highly distinctive musicality drawing on the most varied influences: European classical music, Russian and Ukrainian folklore, jazz, and much more. The collaboration of these two exceptional artists has already produced two CDs: \"Krai\" (2013) and \"Last Snow\" (2014). <a href=\"https:\/\/incenseofmusic.com\/birke\/\">Birch<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/incenseofmusic.com\/bernstein\/\">amber<\/a> will be burned simultaneously with the concert.<\/p>\n \n  <p><em>For guests who are particularly sensitive to smoke, this event is not recommended.<\/em><\/p>\n \n  <div class=\"iom-video-wrap\">\n    <iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/36yB_WKcZ-c\" title=\"Incense of Music 14 \u2013 live\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n  <\/div>\n \n  <div class=\"iom-group-photo\">\n    <img src=\"http:\/\/incenseofmusic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/ark-vad15.jpeg\" alt=\"Arkady Shilkloper and Vadim Neselovskyi\">\n  <\/div>\n  <p class=\"iom-group-photo-credit\">Photo by Fabio Dondero<\/p>\n \n  <h2 class=\"iom-section-title\">Artists<\/h2>\n \n  <div class=\"iom-artist\">\n    <p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/incenseofmusic.com\/arkady-shilkloper-horns\/\">Arkady Shilkloper<\/a><\/strong> \u2014 French horn, alphorn, flugelhorn<\/p>\n    <p>Arkady Shilkloper, a multi-instrumentalist (French horn, flugelhorn, alphorn, and others), was formerly a member of the Bolshoi Orchestra and the Moscow Philharmonic. He turned toward jazz in the early 1980s and, in 1990, co-founded the Moscow Art Trio together with Mikhail Alperin and Sergey Starostin. He has performed and recorded with, among others, the Vienna Art Orchestra, Rabih Abou-Khalil, Sergey Letov, Elvin Jones, Christian Muthspiel, Vadim Neselovskyi, and Sergey Nakariakov. Shilkloper regularly appears as a soloist with orchestras and lives in Berlin.<\/p>\n    <p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.shilkloper.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">shilkloper.com<\/a><\/p>\n  <\/div>\n \n  <div class=\"iom-artist\">\n    <p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/incenseofmusic.com\/vadim-neselovskyi-piano\/\">Vadim Neselovskyi<\/a><\/strong> \u2014 piano, melodica<\/p>\n    <p>Vadim Neselovskyi (b. 1977) is a Ukrainian jazz pianist, composer, and university lecturer. He attended the Odessa Conservatory and, in 1995, came to Unna-Massen, Germany, as a Jewish quota refugee, earning his Bachelor's degree at the Detmold University of Music. After completing his diploma at Berklee College of Music, he earned his Master's at the Thelonious Monk Institute in New Orleans. From the mid-2000s he worked with, among others, Gary Burton (Next Generation) and Christian Finger; in 2009, Herbie Hancock and Dee Dee Bridgewater brought him along on a tour of India. In 2007 he released his debut album of original compositions, \"Spring Song,\" featuring Dutch singer Vera Westera. In 2011 he recorded his solo album \"Music for September\" (Sunnyside Records) in Stamford. In 2013 he played in the trio \"Bez Granitz\" with Bodek Janke (drums) and Alexander Morsey (bass); in 2014 he toured with Jeff Denson. Neselovskyi is Assistant Professor at Berklee College of Music.<\/p>\n    <p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.vadimneselovskyi.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">vadimneselovskyi.com<\/a><\/p>\n  <\/div>\n \n  <h2 class=\"iom-section-title\">Incense<\/h2>\n \n  <div class=\"iom-plant\">\n    <div class=\"iom-plant-photo\">\n      <a href=\"https:\/\/incenseofmusic.com\/birke\/\"><img src=\"http:\/\/incenseofmusic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/599px-Birken_im_Herbst.jpg\" alt=\"Birch\"><\/a>\n    <\/div>\n    <div class=\"iom-plant-text\">\n      <span class=\"iom-plant-name\"><a href=\"https:\/\/incenseofmusic.com\/birke\/\">Birch<\/a><\/span>\n      <p>Birch (Betula) forms its own plant genus of around 100 species found across the entire Northern Hemisphere \u2014 from Europe through Russia and Asia to Japan and North America. Birches are often pioneer plants, thriving on both dry and wet soils, in heathland, on dunes, and in bogs \u2014 even on buildings and ruins. Alongside aspen and pine, they were among the first trees to form forests after the last Ice Age.<\/p>\n      <p>To this day, birch remains a tree used almost everywhere in both magical and everyday life: as the classic maypole and in Corpus Christi processions, for making brooms and birch tar, as a protective tree marking accident-prone, unlit road bends \u2014 since pale birch bark remains visible even in dim light \u2014 as a symbol of fertility and an ingredient in medieval sexual-magical practices, and for making antiseptic bread boxes. Xylitol, the sugar derived from birch sap, has seen renewed popularity in dentistry for its cavity-fighting properties; the lower layer of birch bark is even edible and can be prepared like spaghetti. The Brothers Grimm's German Dictionary describes it thus: \"The birch is a tree of joy and of grazing shepherds, with whose leaves they adorn themselves, in whose shade they rest, into whose white, soft bark they carve names.\"<\/p>\n      <p>Burned as incense, birch releases a bright, resinous-sweet, faintly smoky scent. It is associated with cleansing, new beginnings, and the strength of the first spring light, long considered a tree of renewal after winter.<\/p>\n    <\/div>\n  <\/div>\n \n  <div class=\"iom-group-photo\">\n    <img src=\"http:\/\/incenseofmusic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/BirkenwaldFinnland-1-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"Birch forest in Finland\">\n  <\/div>\n  <p class=\"iom-group-photo-credit\">Birch forest in Finland<\/p>\n \n  <div class=\"iom-plant\">\n    <div class=\"iom-plant-photo\">\n      <a href=\"https:\/\/incenseofmusic.com\/bernstein\/\"><img src=\"http:\/\/incenseofmusic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/Colours_of_Baltic_Amber.jpg\" alt=\"Amber\"><\/a>\n    <\/div>\n    <div class=\"iom-plant-text\">\n      <span class=\"iom-plant-name\"><a href=\"https:\/\/incenseofmusic.com\/bernstein\/\">Amber<\/a><\/span>\n      <p>Amber (from Middle Low German \"B\u00f6rnesteen,\" meaning \"burn-stone\") is a fossilized resin originating from an extinct plant species not yet conclusively identified. By far the most common type of amber is succinite, of which an estimated 640,000-plus tonnes still lie in the ground in the Baltic region alone. Aristotle already suspected a botanical origin, though it was not until the mid-18th century that Russian scholar Mikhail Lomonosov provided scientific proof of amber as fossilized tree resin.<\/p>\n      <p>For thousands of years, amber was worked into jewelry in the Baltic region or exported as a raw material to the cultures of the Mediterranean; in Egypt, crafted objects of Baltic amber over 6,000 years old have been found, and Emperor Nero consumed it in vast quantities. Through friction, amber becomes electrostatically charged, and was thus used in antiquity to clear dust particles from the air \u2014 the ancient Greek word for amber, \"\u1e17lektron,\" is in fact the origin of our word \"electricity,\" and the Baltic islands from which the old amber roads led south were known in Greece as the \"Electrides.\" Its extraordinary properties \u2014 flammability, translucence when polished, electrostatic charge, coloration \u2014 made succinite a mythical stone in many cultures: the \"gold of the North,\" the tears of the Heliades, the amber castle of the Lithuanian legend of J\u016brat\u0117 and Kastytis. To this day, much as in India and in Sufi rituals, it continues to be burned as incense for its fragrant essential oils.<\/p>\n      <p>Amber also frequently contains inclusions of extinct animal and plant species \u2014 roughly 4,500 per tonne in Bitterfeld succinite \u2014 which have fired the scientific and poetic imagination from antiquity to \"Jurassic Park.\" The Roman poet Martial wrote of this in his epigram \"De ape electro inclusa\" (\"On a Bee Enclosed in Amber\"): \"The bee is seen, and shines enclosed in amber, so that she seems preserved in her own nectar. She could not find a nobler tomb to die in, and, dying, may have wished for this alone.\" Burned as incense, amber releases a warm, resinous-sweet scent with a subtle, faintly animalic depth.<\/p>\n    <\/div>\n  <\/div>\n \n  <div class=\"iom-group-photo\">\n    <img src=\"http:\/\/incenseofmusic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/2002-11-15_071b_Puschkin_Bernsteinzimmer-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"The Amber Room\">\n  <\/div>\n  <p class=\"iom-group-photo-credit\">The Amber Room<\/p>\n \n  <div class=\"iom-group-photo\">\n    <img src=\"http:\/\/incenseofmusic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Bernsteinfischer-alt-651x1024.jpg\" alt=\"Amber fishermen and diggers\">\n  <\/div>\n  <p class=\"iom-group-photo-credit\">Amber fishermen and diggers<\/p>\n \n  <h2 class=\"iom-section-title\">More Videos<\/h2>\n \n  <div class=\"iom-video-wrap\">\n    <iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/o6lHHYkjyrQ\" title=\"Video\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n  <\/div>\n \n  <div class=\"iom-video-wrap\">\n    <iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/jk4kSznFdCg\" title=\"Video\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n  <\/div>\n \n<\/div>\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Incense of Music 13 An olfactory concert \u2013 Sunday, 2 April 2017, 9 pm (doors 8 pm) Arkady Shilkloper: French [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":594,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1,2],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/incenseofmusic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/incenseofmusic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/incenseofmusic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/incenseofmusic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/incenseofmusic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=250"}],"version-history":[{"count":37,"href":"https:\/\/incenseofmusic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9213,"href":"https:\/\/incenseofmusic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250\/revisions\/9213"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/incenseofmusic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/594"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/incenseofmusic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/incenseofmusic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/incenseofmusic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}