The Educational Bridge Project Presents
Sixth Annual Festival
Days of Russian Culture
at Boston University
28
October - 20 November 2003
All events are FREE and open to the public
locations:
BU College of Fine Arts | 885 Commonwealth Avenue | MAP
& directions
( Concert Hall | List Lounge |
Marshall Room | TheaterLab )
BU Opera Institute | 808 Commonwealth Avenue | MAP & directions
BU College of Arts and Sciences | 725 Commonwealth Avenue | MAP & directions
contact:
Ludmilla Leibman | calendar
of events | descriptions of events and
participants | press
release from Boston University | articles on the
web
Tuesday, October 28
11-12:30 p.m.
Young Scholars Conference, Meeting One: Collaboration and Scholarly Exchange
College of Fine Arts School of Music, List Lounge, Second Floor
12-2 p.m.
Masterclass
Larissa Gergieva, Director of the Mariinsky Theater Academy of Young Singers
College of Fine Arts Marshall Room
Wednesday, October 29
3-5 p.m.
Young Scholars Conference, Meeting Two: Editorial Policy
College of Fine Arts School of Music, room 219
4:00 p.m.
Lecture, Theodore Komisarjevsky: The Theatre of All Arts
Marina Kornakova, St. Petersburg Institute of Research in the Arts
College of Fine Arts TheatreLab @ 855
Friday, October 31
3-5 p.m.
Masterclass
Larissa Gergieva, Director of the Mariinsky Theater Academy of Young Singers
Opera Institute
Saturday, November 1
8:00 p.m.
Mariinsky Theater Academy of Young Singers
and Boston University Opera Institute
Collaborative concert of arias, songs, and ensembles
College of Fine Arts Concert Hall
Monday, November 10
9-11 a.m.
Masterclass
Moscow Conservatory piano professor Galina Shirinskaya
College of Fine Arts Marshall Room
Thursday, November 13
2-3 p.m.
Lecture, Beethoven String Quartet: Working with Dmitri Shostakovich
Moscow Conservatory piano professor Galina Shirinskaya
College of Fine Arts room 219
4-5:45 p.m.
Masterclass
Moscow Conservatory piano professor Galina Shirinskaya
College of Fine Arts Marshall Room
Sunday, November 16
8:00 p.m.
Concert, 50 years after Stalin’s Death: The History of Soviet Russia in Sounds
Studio New Music – Moscow Conservatory
with Professor Vladimir Tarnopolsky
College of Fine Arts Concert Hall
Nikolay Roslavets
(1881-1944) Chamber Symphony (1927)
Alexander Zhivotov
(1904-1964) Fragments for nonet (1929)
Dmitry Schostakovich
(1906-1975) Preludes op.34 (1933) arrangement for chamber ensemble by Vladislav Soifer and Dmitri Kourliandski
Vladimir Deshevov
(1899-1955) Rails (1926) arrangement for chamber ensemble by Vladislav Soifer
Alexander Mosolov
(1900-1973) Zavod (Factory) for ensemble (1926)
intermission
Alfred Schnittke
(1934-1998) Hymn I (1974)
Alexander Vustin
(1943) Music for 10 (1991)
Galina Ustvolskaya
(1919) Symphony #4 Prayer (1985-87)
Vladimir Tarnopolski
(1955) Cassandra (1991)
Tuesday, November 18
12:30 p.m.
Composer’s Forum, Professor Vladimir Tarnopolsky
Timbre/Harmony/Structure in Tarnopolsky’s Cassandra
College of Fine Arts Concert Hall
6:30 p.m.
Studio New Music – Moscow Conservatory
Composers Workshop with Boston University student-composers
College of Fine Arts Concert Hall
Mark Berger: Night Music
Ramon Castillo: Paroxysm
Chao Chang: Love Secrets
Ivana Lisak: An Afternoon...
Mauricio Pauly-Maduro: Octet
Paul Vash: Commedia
Wednesday, November 19
8:00 p.m.
Musicology Forum
Kind of Red: Jazz in the Soviet Union
Zinaida Kartasheva, Professor of Musicology, Moscow State University of Culture and Arts
College of Fine Arts room 216
Thursday, November 20
3:30-5:00 p.m.
Lecture, Peter the Great as a Collector: Masterpieces of the Tsar’s Collection at the Hermitage
Anna Konivets of the St. Petersburg Hermitage Museum
College of Arts and Sciences room 303A