Music and Time Annotation << Back «Kama Bridge» by Peter Kulichkin: Range of Problems. General Characteristics of the Concept and Cultural and Historical Context A.M. Gosteva The focus of the article is the poem for choir and orchestra «Kama Bridge» by Perm composer Peter Kulichkin on poems by Perm poet Vladimir Radkevich. The research represents the first scientific and musicological experience related to this composition and denotes the range of problems and directions for further deeper and more detailed study (in vision of the author of the article). Comparative, hermeneutic, musicological methods of analysis make a number of semantic layers be revealed both in the «libretto» of the composition and in musical dramaturgy. «Kama Bridge» is studied both in cultural and historical contexts, considered from the standpoint of the concept of «Ural city» and included in the space of today’s music. Problems of the poem are summarized to take it far beyond the scope of a local work of art, offering to comprehend the historical and spiritual processes of universal human significance. In the first part of the research, a general description of the concept of «Kamsky Bridge» is given, the «potential» of the composition as a creative and research project is revealed. Keywords: music of the 21st century, vocal-symphonic music, Kulichkin, Kama bridge, choral poem, Radkevich, Ural city, Perm composers. Pp. 35-39.