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 Universityarticles on the web


CALENDAR OF EVENTS

 

 

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)

 

       NOTES FOR THE CONCERT

 

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