Spartak Vs. Cska at Dinamo Stadium
September 11
Grab your team scarf and get ready to yell. A classic Moscow soccer rivalry is set to play out between last year’s national champion, CSKA, and ninetime champ Spartak on September 11. Both Moscow teams, Spartak hopes it can catch up to CSKA in the league rankings. This is just one of many expected-to-be-electrifying soccer matches scheduled for September. Learn more about Russian soccer by pointing your browser to www.pfl.ru, the site of the Russian Professional Football League.
Tickets for this match are available from September 7 at the Dynamo stadium ticket counter. m. Dynamo, 36 Leningradsky Prospect, Tel. 212 7092. To order tickets, call 774 1812.
 Guitar and Jazz Virtuoso Bireli Lagrene Plays Moscow
September 18 & 19
The acknowledged master of gypsy jazz, dazzling guitarist Bireli Lagrene was born a Sinti Gypsy in the Alsace border region between France and Germany. He left his gypsy roots to play fusion and straight ahead jazz, and now plays a cornucopia of styles ranging from jazz to big band that incorporate rock and Brazilian elements. Early in his career, his creative playing style evoked comparisons with Django Reinhardt. At thirty-five, Bireli has decided to take a brave step forward by playing the music of the past.
If you want to be soothed by Lagrene’s magic guitar, get on down to Dom Soyouzov, 1 Bolshaya Dmitrovka, m. Teatralnaya, Tel. 292 0736 on September 18 at 7pm or to Club Marika, 21 Petrovka, m. Pushkinskaya, Tel. 924 0358 on September 19 at 8pm. Order tickets by phone at 933 3200 or go to www.lagrene.kontramarka.ru.
 Matisse ’Dances’ Over to the Pushkin Museum
September 9 - November 11
Experience the magic of Henri Matisse and "The Dance," on loan from the Paris Museum of Modern Art. This inspirational piece completed in 1933 – not to be confused with Matisse’s other famous “The Dance” that he painted two decades earlier and hangs in St. Petersburg’s Hermitage Museum – reflects Matisse’s selfproclaimed "agonistic" character. Originally commissioned by American collector Albert Barnes to decorate a room at the Barnes Foundation in Merion, Pennsylvania, when Matisse was almost done it came to the fore that he had been given the wrong dimensions of the wall for which the painting was intended and he had to hastily create a second version. Today the completed painting awaits you at the Pushkin Museum. Let its bright colors and sensual lines seduce you.
At the Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts, 12 Volkhonka, m. Kropotkinskaya, Tel. 203 9574. Open every day from 10am to 6pm, except Monday.
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