The article is devoted to the Russian actor and the Musical Theater Director, Professor of Solo Singing and Opera Division of the Dmitri Hvorostovsky Siberian State Academy of Arts, National Theater's Prize “Golden mask” Diploma winner, Honored Art Worker of Russia Vasily Arnoldovich Vavilov. The relevance of this research is based on the necessity to comprehend the life and career path of one of the most interesting Russian Musical Theater's figures. It is necessary to evaluate his contribution to the development of culture and art of the Krasnoyarsk region, identify the main events that contributed to the formation of his personality, on the eve of the upcoming anniversary of V. A. Vavilov. The study is based on encyclopedic publications, research on the theater and theater figures of the Krasnoyarsk region, publications of the Russian mass-media about the roles, performances of Vasily Vavilov and his students, as well as interviews with music critics, colleagues, alumni and loyal fans of Vasily Arnoldovich, to create his first complete biography. Most of the information, given here, is taken from personal conversations and is published for the first time in order to indicate the scale and originality of the creative personality of Vasily Vavilov.

This article talks about the application of K. Orff's method in preschool pedagogy. It shows the main goals and objectives, the relevance of the method in modern pedagogy of early childhood development. In the introduction, the author highlights the main problems faced by modern higher music education, and also offers to refer to the method of K. Orff in raising children as a future audience. In the main part, the author gives a theoretical description of Orff-Schulwerk as a methodological system, then tries to determine the significance of musical development for the child not only in the narrow (development of rhythm, hearing), but also in the broad sense (development of speech, imagination, aesthetic taste). The author focuses on the influence of the Orff method on the physical development of children, the development of speech and writing, helps to learn and train time orientation. The author also describes the relationship of musical education with the mental processes of the human brain (trains and develops attention, observation, intelligence, memory) and emphasizes that classes using the Orff method most fully contribute to the development of children's musical sensitivity.

A special importance has been given to the great imperial seal as a type of jade-made work of art in ancient China. Its two components – a carved decoration at the top and a stamp, not only were symbols of the feudal era, but also demonstrated the highest level of Chinese art. Based on the investigation of the jade seals history of the origin and development, details and features of the art of large imperial seals are highlighted in this article. The emergence of large Imperial seals was facilitated by the formation of the ancient jade culture and social relations of the ancient Chinese class society. Large Imperial seals were a symbol of the highest state power, carved ornaments on their surface were always made in the form of a dragon or a Chihuahua, and the decorative language of high relief was often used. The surface shape of the seals was extremely diverse, reaching its peak in the Qing dynasty. And their development continues to this day.

Aesthetic expressiveness has always had a high, unappreciated value for architecture. It is sad to admit that the most modern world architecture objects can hardly be called aesthetically expressive. There are the lack of artistic taste, harmony, organicity, functionality, semantic content. Unfolding for the audience, they do not contribute the culmination (the highest point of emotional tension), but even do not reach the threshold to be called any art. The language of modern architecture is the language of separate, disparate gestures, statements and phrases with spontaneous, random character. Connecting the “fragments” together, which became the goal of this study, is supposed to restore the lost integrity of architecture. The object of this research is a buildings and structures related to folded architecture – based on the concepts of the French poststructuralist philosopher Gilles Deleuze. Research method is the considering of the folded architecture objects in the context of a postmodern language that borrows such linguistic units as metaphor, syntax, semantics, etc. Reaching the culmination, the fold aims at a qualitative transformation of the inner world of a person. Through an image that expresses the aspirations, relentless search of people, people and architecture become inextricably linked to each other.