(M)other : Evolution or Revolution 20 years after Communism. Twenty Years since the Collapse of Communism Interdisciplinary Symposium/International Festival

This festival/symposium commemorates the 20th anniversary of the collapse of the and the fall of communism within Europe - an event that has brought unprecedented political, social and cultural change worldwide during the last two decades.

Presented by The Centre for Russian Music, Goldsmiths, University of London In association with the Institute of Musical Research and BBC Symphony Orchestra

26 – 27 April 2012

Chancellor’s Hall, Senate House Malet Street London WC1E 7HU

28 April 2012 The Barbican Centre

29 April 2012 Great Hall, Goldsmiths College 22 Lewisham Way, SE14

Thursday, 26 April The Chancellor’s Hall

Session 1: Music, Art, Politics and Ideology in Post-Soviet Period Chair: Arnold McMillin

10am Key-note address:

Sir Rodric Braithwaite, a former UK Ambassador to Russia Russia Today

Coffee

11:00 Irina Souch (University of Amsterdam) Double Thinking: the Tactics of Surviving (post-)Soviet Ideology

11:30 Tania Tsaregradskaia (Russian Academy of Music, ) Pärt and Khodorkovsky

Lunch (own arrangements)

1:30 – Lunchtime concert:

Faradzh Karaev ( 1943 - ) Are You Still Alive, Mr Minister??!! (1997) (1950 - ) - A Triple Portrait (2011) Vladimir Tarnopolski (1955 - ) Eindruck-Ausdruck (1996)

The Marsyas Trio: Helen Vidovich (flute), Fei Ren (piano), Valerie Welbanks (cello) Goldsmiths Contemporary Music Ensemble, conducted by

Launch of the CD: (Toccata Classic)

The Russian Nikolai Korndorf (1947-2001) was a larger-than-life character and wrote music that was similarly expansive and urgent. He was undoubtedly one of the most important Russian after Schnittke. His complete works for solo cello (recorded on the CD for the first time) illustrate his unwillingness to be governed by convention.

Session 2: Music: Post-Soviet Transformations Chair: Chair: Ivana Medic

2:30 Rebecca Turner (Goldsmiths) Nirvana and Physical Love as a Form Concept in ‘Habil Sayagi’, by Frangiz Ali-Zadeh: Mugham and European Traditions in Post-Soviet Times.

3:00 Valerie Welbanks (Goldsmiths) Post–Soviet Gubaidulina

Tea

Session 3: , Theatre and Film Chair: Ildar Khannanov

3:45 Paolo Eustachi (Independent scholar, Rome, Italy): Evolution of Film-Soundtrack in the Post-Soviet Russia: Valentin Silvestrov and Leonid Desiatnikov

4:15 pm Ivana Medic (Open University, London) Idiots, Devils and Sinners: 's Post-Soviet

Tea

[Session 3 continues]

4:45 pm Irina Snitkova (Russian Academy of Music, Moscow) Great Russia Myth and the : Russian History in the Opera Productions of the 2000s.

5:15 Vladimir Marchenkov (Ohio University, USA) Abject Truth: Tarkovsky’s Boris in the Post-Soviet Context

Friday, 27 April 2012 The Chancellor’s Hall Session 4: Post-Soviet Minimalism Chair: Levon Hakobian

9:30 Film: After Bach (Russian Minimalists in Discussion)

10:00 Laila Woozeer (Royal Holloway) Russian Minimalism: Post-Soviet Period

10:30 Tara Wilson (Goldsmiths) Russian and (former) Soviet Post-Minimalist Music: Liberties, Developments and Paradoxes since 1991

Coffee

Session 5: Post-Soviet Literature and Visual Arts Chair: Vladimir Marchenkov

11:15 Arnold McMillin (SSEES, London) Post-Soviet Belarusian Literature Before and After Exile

11:45am Anna Zhurba (The Tretiakov Gallery, Moscow) Post-Soviet Russian Political Art – Evolution or Degradation of Soviet Tradition.

Lunch (own arrangements)

1: 30 pm Lunch-time recital: Kate Ryder, piano, toy piano New Piano Music from Post-Soviet Russia

Faradzh Karaev (Azerbaijan/Russia): ...Monsieur Beeline - eccentric (introduced by the composer) Elena Kats-Chernin (Uzbekistan/Australia ): Little Waltz for Kate (from the opera "The Rage of Life") Ekaterina Kulkova (Russia): CHESS - A Game with White and Black Arvo Pärt (Estonia ): Für Alina Vladimir Tarnopolski (Russia ): Eindruck-Ausdruck [Impression-Expression] (introduced by the composer) Dmitri Yanov-Yanovsky (Uzbekistan/USA ): Allusions and Reminiscences Iraida Yusupova (Turkmenistan/Russia ): Consolamentum

‘During my two visits to Russia in 2011, I began researching the idea for a programme of new Russian piano music and was immediately struck not only by the richness and range of the music but the by difficulty of grasping the essence of what makes Russian music quintessentially “Russian”. With composers originating from such a diversity of countries and cultures within the Federation (Karaev, Yusupova) and the wide reaching influence of the diaspora as far away as Australia and America (Kats-Chernin, Yanov- Yanovsky) could there be a sense of a communality of language and a contemporary “Russian style” ? Today’s programme seeks to address those questions…’ - Kate Ryder

Session 6: Aesthetics and Theory Chair: Tatiana Tsaregradskaia

2:45pm Levon Hakobian (Moscow Institute of Art Studies) A Mirror of the Post-Soviet Symphonic Culture

3:15 Ildar Khannanov (Peabody Conservatoire, Johns Hopkins University, USA) ’s Concept of Harmony on the Collision Course with Schenkerian Analysis: The Conditions of Russian Music Theory after 1991

3:45 Alexander Ivashkin (Goldsmiths) Songs My Mother Taught Me: Double-Recycling in the Post-Soviet Music

Tea

4:30

Vladimir Tarnopolski (Moscow Conservatoire) Chekhovian Images of Russia and Their Subsequent Deconstruction in My Opera “When Time Overflows its Margins”

5: 15 pm Round Table Discussion Chair: Alexander Ivashkin

Saturday, 28 April The Barbican Centre, 11am – 10pm

Arvo Pärt: Full Immersion: www.bbc.co.uk/orchestras/events/575

Sunday, 29 April Great Hall, Goldsmiths

1:00 pm FREE ADMISSION Concert:

Pärt (1935 - )– L’Abbé Agathon, text by Isaac of Syria, for soprano and eight cellos, original version, 2004. Radvilovich ( 1955 - ) - Big Brother, Anti-utopia, texts by George Orwell, Aldous Huxley, Hermann Hesse and Evgeny Zamiatin, for baritone, invisible bass, narrators, women’s choir and ensemble, 2007

Raskatov (1953 - )- Ritual, 1997, text by Velimir Khlebnikov, for soprano and percussion instruments, 1997 Gubaidulina ( 1931 - ) – Sonnengesang [Canticle of the Sun], text by St Francis from Assisi, for solo cello, chamber choir and percussion, 1997.

Goldsmiths Chamber Choir, Goldsmiths Contemporary Music Ensemble The Trinity Gold Cello Ensemble directed by Natalia Pavlutskaya

Elena Vassilieva, soprano, percussion instruments Minna Nygren, soprano James Schouten, baritone Valerie Welbanks, cello Deborah King (narrator) Georgia Matthews (narrator) James Hurst (narrator)

Alexander Ivashkin, conductor Mariano Nunez-West, sound engineer

2:30 Launch of the Archive of Post -Soviet Music at the Centre for Russian Music.

3:00 Conclusion Alexander Ivashkin in Discussion with the leading Post-Soviet composers: Elena Firsova, Faradzh Karaev, Alexander Raskatov, Dmitri Smirnov, Vladimir Tarnopolski