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University of Chicago Presents University Theater/Theater and Performance Studies The University of Chicago Library Symphony Center Presents Goodman Theatre University of Chicago Presents Roosevelt University Rockefeller Chapel University of Chicago Presents Tokyo String Quartet Theater 24 Play Series: GULAG Art Orchestra Series Chekhov’s The Seagull Lecture / demonstration Pacifica Quartet: 19th Annual Silent Film Lecture / demonstration by Mariinsky Orchestra Friday, October 1, 2010 A Cloud With Trousers Through December 2010 October 16 – November 14, 2010 by Pacifica Quartet Shostakovich Cycle with Organ Accompaniment: Masumi Rostad, viola, and (formerly Kirov Orchestra) Mandel Hall, 1131 East 57th Street Saturday, October 2, 2010, 8 pm The Joseph Regenstein Library, 170 North Dearborn Street Saturday, October 16, 2 pm SUNDAY OCTOBER 17, 2010, 2 AND 7 PM Aelita: Queen of Mars Amy Briggs, piano th nd chicagopresents.uchicago.edu, 773.702.8068 First Floor Theater, Reynolds Club, 1100 East 57 Street, 2 Floor Reading Room Valery Gergiev, conductor Goodmantheatre.org, 312.443.3800 Fulton Recital Hall, 1010 East 59th Street SUNDAY OCTOBER 31, 2010, 2 AND 7 PM Jay Warren, organ Saturday, October 30, 2 pm 5706 South University Avenue Lib.uchicago.edu Denis Matsuev, piano Chicagopresents.uchicago.edu, 773.702.8068 Friday, October 29, 2010, 8 pm Fulton Recital Hall, 1010 East 59th Street Mozart: Quartet in C Major, K. 575 As imperialist Russia was falling apart, playwright Anton SUNDAY JANUARY 30, 2011, 2 AND 7 PM ut.uchicago.edu Tuesday, October 12, 2010, 8 pm Rockefeller Chapel, 5850 South Woodlawn Avenue Chicagopresents.uchicago.edu, 773.702.8068 Lera Auerbach: Quartet No. 2, “Primera Luz” Professional artists and amateurs imprisoned in the GULAG Chekhov was writing THE SEAGULL. In Robert Falls’ bold Shostakovich: String Quartets Nos. 1, 2, and 3 SUNDAY FEBRUARY 13, 2011, 2 AND 7 PM Symphony Center, 220 South Michigan Avenue Rockefeller.uchicago.edu 773.702.7059 Schumann: Quartet in A Major, Op. 41, No. 3 faced many Communist Party-imposed limits on content new production of Chekhov’s masterwork, an ensemble cast Theater 24 is proud to present Vladymir Mayakovski’s CSO.org, 312.294.3000 SUNDAY FEBRUARY 27, 2011, 2 AND 7 PM Glinka: Viola Sonata th A Cloud with Trousers in a 24-hour production involving six and stylistic expression, yet their creativity took many gives voice to the final years of a society and class system Ganz Hall, 430 South Michigan Avenue, 7 floor Based on Tolstoy’s novel, Aelita was the world’s first feature Shostakovich: Viola Sonata, Op. 147 The Tokyo String Quartet will open the Chicago Presents teams of writers, directors, and stagehands. The students forms, from written memoirs to arts and crafts, paintings Rachmaninov: Piano Concerto No. 3 in D Minor, Op. 30 that the Soviet Revolution hoped to erase. www.pacificaquartet.com, 847.242.0775 film to use interplanetary travel as its main plot line. A season with a program featuring Russian composer will write and rehearse a collection of one-act plays in and body art. This exhibit features examples of GULAG art Shostakovich: Symphony No. 15 in A Major, Op. 141 brilliant engineer and a soldier travel to the Red Planet to Lera Auerbach, 2011 composer-in-residence of the The Grammy Award-winning Pacifica Quartet will perform the Explore our many artistic and cultural offerings! More than response to Mayakovski’s poem that are fully staged and as well as information and sources for further research. find it inhabited by meek humanoids and ruled with an Dresden Staatskapelle Orchestra. The Mariinsky Orchestra (formerly the Kirov Orchestra) groundbreaking string quartets and piano quintet of Russian performed 24 hours after the festival begins. iron fist by the beautiful Aelita, who has fallen in love with returns to Chicago with conductor Valery Gergiev and composer Dmitri Shostakovich in a series of five programs. 100 events are coming to Chicago from October 2010 through the engineer after watching him across space through a Russian pianist Denis Matsuev, winner of the 1998 telescope. A unique set design captures Soviet Constructivism January 2011, and more will be added. For full details, tickets, International Tchaikovsky Competition. at its most unhinged, although the Soviet government special articles and more, visit SovietArtsExperience.org banned the film during the Cold War period.
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Civic Orchestra of Chicago University of Chicago Presents Harris Theater for Music and Dance WFMT 98.7fm University of Chicago Presents Chicago Symphony Orchestra The University of Chicago Graham School of General Studies University Theater / Theater and Performance Studies The University of Chicago Symphony Orchestra Chicago Symphony Orchestra Auditorium Theatre
Civic Orchestra of Chicago Ani Aznavoorian, cello, and Kremerata Baltica; Gidon Kremer, Collectors’ Corner with Gjorgji Dimchevski, violin; Beyond the Score Mondays, January 10 – March 7, 2011, 6:00-8:30 pm War Reflections: University of Chicago Chicago Symphony Orchestra The State Ballet Theatre of Russia Grahamschool.uchicago.edu, 773.702.1722 Jaap van Zweden, conductor Lera Auerbach, piano / composer Artistic Leader and Soloist Henry Fogel (radio broadcast) Kenneth Olsen, cello; Chicago Symphony Orchestra A Night of new Russian readings Symphony Orchestra Riccardo Muti, conductor Swan Lake Simon Trpcˇ eski, piano Mitsuko Uchida, piano Sunday, October 31, 2010, 6:30 pm Friday, November 5, 2010 Saturday, November 6, 2010 Sunday, November 14, 9-11 pm Sir Mark Elder, conductor “T he Novel as a Manual for Life: Friday, January 14, 2011, 7:30 pm Barbara Schubert, Music Director and Conductor Music by Tchaikovsky, Symphony Center, 220 South Michigan Avenue Mandel Hall, 1131 East 57th Street Harris Theater, 205 East Randolph Drive Sunday, November 21, 9-11 pm Friday, November 19, 2010 Gerard McBurney, narrator and host Tolstoy’s War and Peace” FXK Theater, Reynolds Club, 3rd Floor, Saturday, January 29, 2011, 8 pm Thursday, February 3, 2011, 8 pm choreography by M. 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Ivanov CSO.org, 312.294.3000 Chicagopresents.uchicago.edu, 773.702.8068 HarrisTheaterChicago.org, 312.334.7777 www.wfmt.com Mandel Hall, 1131 East 57th Street Friday, January 7, 2011, 1:30 pm 5706 South University Avenue Mandel Hall, 1131 East 57th Street Friday, February 4, 2011, 1:30 pm Friday, February 4, 2011, 7:30 pm This course pays special attention to the contradictions Chicagopresents.uchicago.edu, 773.702.8068 Sunday, January 9, 2011, 3 pm taps.uchicago.edu Music.uchicago.edu, 773.702.8069 Saturday, February 5, 2011, 8 pm Saturday, February 5, 2011, 2 pm and 8 pm Shostakovich: Chamber Symphony, Op. 110a Shostakovich: Cello Sonata in D minor, op. 40 Bartók: Divertimento WFMT will feature two radio programs about the life and between Tolstoy-the-philosopher, trying to solve the Symphony Center, 220 South Michigan Avenue Tuesday, February 8, 2011, 7:30 pm Auditoriumtheatre.org, 800.982.ARTS (2787) Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 5 Prokofiev: Piano Sonata No. 2 in D minor, op. 14 Schumann: Cello Concerto (Violin Version) music of Mieczyslaw Weinberg (also known as Moises Rachmaninov: Trio élégiaque in G Minor, No. 1 problem of human freedom and necessity, and Tolstoy-the- UT / TAPS will present an evening of back-to-back staged Shostakovich’s Film Scores: The Gadfly, Hamlet, CSO.org, 312.294.3000 Symphony Center, 220 South Michigan Avenue Lera Auerbach: 24 Preludes for Violincello and Piano, op. 47 Selections from Kremerata Baltica’s new album De Profundis Vainberg), a very close friend of Shostakovich who wrote Shostakovich: Piano Trio in E Minor, Op. 67 artist, drawing life with unparalleled mastery readings by contemporary Russian playwrights. This one King Lear, and more The State Ballet Theatre of Russia brings the world’s most The young musicians of the Civic Orchestra of Chicago CSO.org, 312.294.3000 (to be released Fall 2010), featuring recent works by music in the Shostakovich vein but sometimes with a Tchaikovsky: Piano Trio in A Minor, Op. 50 Prokofiev: Symphony No. 5 in B-flat Major, Op. 100 night only event will see the U.S. premiere of Fighter Class beloved ballet to glorious life! This company of distinguished present a program by two of the greatest Russian composers. Brilliant virtuosos Ani Aznavoorian and Lera Auerbach will No other major composer of the twentieth century devoted Michael Nyman, Arvo Pärt, Lera Auerbach, Raminta Šerkšnyte, stronger Jewish influence. The November 14 program “Sh ostakovich” “Medea,” as well as a reading of the one man piece I Am Schumann: Piano Concerto in A Minor, Op. 54 dancers (known in Russia as the Voronezh State Theatre of Guest conductor Jaap van Zweden leads the these talented make their Chicago recital debut together paying homage Macedonian pianist Simon Trpˇceski makes his Chicago Sir Mark Elder leads this Beyond the Score presentation more of his career to film music than Dmitri Shostakovich. and Georgs Pelecis will feature Cello Concerto (played by Rostropovich), The Machine Gunner, both new Russian plays that reflect Shostakovich: Symphony No. 5 in D Minor, Op. 47 Opera and Ballet) has showcased the unparalleled art of musicians in the one of the quintessential Romantic to Shostakovich in an evening including his Cello Sonata More and more, critics consider the highly controversial Altogether he composed scores to 36 films, from New Babylon Symphony No. 4, Sinfonietta No. 2, and Cello Sonata No. 2. chamber music debut with long-time friend Gjorgji of Prokofiev’s Fifth Symphony, examining the opposing the influence of war time Soviet Union and its effect on Russian ballet to countries throughout the world. masterpieces – Tchaikovsky’s Fifth Symphony – and Soviet composer Shostakovich to be the most important and Auerbach’s own 24 Preludes for Violoncello and Piano. Gidon Kremer, born and raised in Soviet-occupied Latvia, Dimchevski and Kenneth Olsen of the Chicago Symphony forces of artistry and politics that led Prokofiev to write this contemporary Russian perspective. (1929) to King Lear (1971). Shostakovich’s film scores The November 21 program will feature Symphony No. 12 th Mitsuko Uchida spends two weeks with the CSO during Shostakovich’s Chamber Symphony for strings. and his namesake Kremerata Baltica chamber orchestra, existentialist composer of the 20 century. A remarkable boast meticulous craftsmanship and reveal the composer’s “In Memory of Shostakovich,” String Quartet No. 6, and Orchestra. The trio will bring a fresh voice to the fierce paradoxical work. The CSO’s acclaimed Beyond the Score 2010 / 11, both as a conductor and as a soloist. Her second comprised of the top young professional musicians from prodigy who astonished the musical world with his First complex and often paradoxical musical personality. Rhapsody on Moldavian Themes. all-Russian program, including the Shostakovich Piano series reveals the story behind great musical works with a week as soloist is under CSO music director Riccardo Muti, Symphony, he lived during the dangerous political climate the Baltic States of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania, make Trio, originally premiered with the composer at the piano. live audiovisual presentation and dramatized commentary who conducts Schumann’s Piano Concerto and Shostakovich’s of the Stalinist era. This class will place the musical Related film screenings on Thursday, January 20 and their Harris Theater debut with this provocative program. provided by creative director Gerard McBurney. Symphony No. 5. content in context. Music literacy is not required. Thursday, January 27; 7 pm at the Film Studies Center, University of Chicago.
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University of Chicago Presents DuPage Symphony Orchestra Symphony Center Presents University of Chicago Artspeaks Series The University of Chicago Symphony Orchestra Rockefeller Chapel Symphony Center Presents Rockefeller Chapel Symphony Center Presents Chicago Symphony Orchestra Auditorium Theatre Lecture / demonstration The Genius of Prokofiev Chamber Music Series Mark Morris University of Chicago Missa Festiva – Orchestra Series Golosá Russian Choir Chamber Music Series Chicago Symphony Orchestra The Eifman Ballet of St. Petersburg Philharmonic by Pacifica Quartet DuPage Symphony Orchestra Dmitri Hvorostovsky, baritone Tuesday, February 22, 2011, 7:30 pm Symphony Orchestra Alexandre Gretchaninov Sunday, April 3, 2011, 11 am Yuri Bashmet, viola James Conlon, conductor St. Petersburg with Sheila Fitzpatrick Barbara Schubert, conductor Ivari Ilja, piano Mandel Hall, 1131 East 57th Street, University of Chicago Barbara Schubert, Music Director and Conductor Sunday, March 6, 2011, 11 am Yuri Temirkanov, conductor Rockefeller Chapel, 5850 South Woodlawn Avenue Evgeny Kissin, piano Leonidas Kavakos, violin Don Quixote, or Fantasies Alisa Weilerstein, cello Saturday, February 12, 4 pm Saturday, February 12, 2011, 8 pm Wednesday, February 16, 2011, 8 pm Artspeaks.uchicago.edu, 773.702.8080 Hahn-Bin, violin Rockefeller Chapel, 5850 South Woodlawn Avenue Rockefeller.uchicago.edu 773.702.7059 Sunday, April 17, 2011, 3 pm Thursday, April 21, 2011, 8 pm of a Madman Fulton Recital Hall, 1010 East 59th Street Sunday, February 13, 2011, 3 pm Symphony Center, 220 South Michigan Avenue Saturday, March 5, 2011, 8 pm Rockefeller.uchicago.edu 773.702.7059 Wednesday, March 30, 2011, 8 pm Symphony Center, 220 South Michigan Avenue Friday, April 22, 2011, 1:30 pm Choreography by Boris Eifman. Music by Ludwig Minkus Choreographer Mark Morris engages in conversation Rockefeller Memorial Chapel welcomes the Golosá Russian Chicagopresents.uchicago.edu, 773.702.8068 Wentz Concert Hall, 171 East Chicago Avenue, Naperville CSO.org, 312.294.3000 Mandel Hall, 1131 East 57th Street Symphony Center, 220 South Michigan Avenue CSO.org, 312.294.3000 Saturday, April 23, 2011, 8 pm with Princeton musicologist Simon Morrison about Choir for a performance of traditional Russian vocal music. Thursday, April 21, 2011 at 7:30 pm Music.uchicago.edu, 773.702.8069 Rockefelller Chapel Choir presents the music of CSO.org, 312.294.3000 Dupagesymphony.org, 630.778.1003 Symphony Center, 220 South Michigan Ave Saturday, April 23, 2011 at 2:00 pm and 8:00 pm Shostakovich: String Quartets Nos. 7, 10, 11, and 12 Program to include works by Fauré, Taneyev, Liszt “Modernism in Music and Dance,” as well as their Alexandre Gretchaninov. Program to include: CSO.org, 312.294.3000 Auditoriumtheatre.org, 800.982.ARTS (2787) Sergei Prokofiev’s rich creative life coincided with the and Tchaikovsky collaboration on Prokofiev’s original 1935 version of Myaskovsky: Symphony No. 22 in B Minor, Rimsky-Korsakov: Russian Easter Overture, Op. 36 Shostakovich: Viola Sonata, Op. 147 artistic, cultural, and political tumult of the early decades Romeo & Juliet, On Motifs of Shakespeare. “Symphonic Ballad” Shostakovich: Cello Concerto No. 1 in E-flat Major, Op. 107 Schubert: Sonata in A Minor, D. 821 (Arpeggione) Golijov: New Work (CSO co-commission) The great Russian baritone Dmitri Hvorostovsky returns In an asylum, a crazy dreamer who thinks he is Don Quixote of the Soviet Union, reflecting the contradictory influences of Shostakovich: Violin Concerto in A Minor, Op. 77 / 99 Dvoˇrák: Symphony No. 9 in E Minor, Op. 95 (From the New World) Sibelius: Violin Concerto in D Minor, Op. 47 for a recital with Estonian pianist Ivari Ilja. Widely known Two of the greatest musicians of our time, violist Yuri Bashmet inspires his fellow inmates with his daydreams of the the time. The program opens with excerpts from Romeo and Shostakovich: Suite from Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District for his commanding presence and burnished, passionate Nicolai Myaskovsky, often considered the “Father of the Russian conductor Yuri Temirkanov brings his St. Petersburg and piano virtuoso Evgeny Kissin, join forces and perform beauties of Spain. Juliet. The Naperville Chorus and the North Central College singing, Hvorostovsky brings a recital program to Chicago Soviet Symphony,” composed the 22nd of his 27 symphonies Philharmonic to the Symphony Center stage with a concert together at Symphony Center for the first time. Kissin concludes Concert Choir join the DuPage Symphony for Prokofiev’s James Conlon returns to lead the CSO in a program featuring “An ill man imagines himself to be Don Quixote and tries to that includes songs by two Russian composers: Tchaikovsky in 1941 in response to The Great Patriotic War (World War II), that features Shostakovich’s Cello Concerto No. 1 with his three-part Chicago residency with this duo-recital, monumental Alexander Nevsky cantata, drawn from his score Leonidas Kavakos as the soloist in Sibelius’ Violin Concerto be kind, caring, and loving towards other people – but is and Taneyev. predating Shostakovich’s “Leningrad Symphony” by several American cellist Alisa Weilerstein. The St. Petersburg performing a stirring program that includes Shostakovich’s to Sergei Eisenstein’s 1938 film masterpiece. and Shostakovich’s Suite from Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk such an attempt a symptom of a mental disability? If it is, months. Korean violinist Hahn-Bin will make his Mandel Philharmonic is Russia’s oldest orchestra, and Temirkanov Viola Sonata and Schubert’s Arpeggione Sonata. District. The program opens with the first CSO performances then long live the madman’s fantasy…” Hall debut performing performing Shostakovich’s hauntingly has been at its helm as artistic director and chief conductor of a new work by Osvaldo Golijov, who completed his term – Boris Eifman complex Violin Concerto No. 1. since 1988. as a CSO Mead Composer-in-Residence in 2010.
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Golosá Russian Choir University of Chicago Presents Chicago Symphony Orchestra The Chicago Cultural Center The Art Institute of Chicago Ravinia Festival Ravinia Festival Smart Museum of Art Block Museum of Art Block Museum of Art Folksong in the Soviet Era: The Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra Chicago Symphony Orchestra Classical Mondays: Grant Park Music Festival Windows on the War: Soviet TASS Chicago Symphony Orchestra Chicago Symphony Orchestra Process and Artistry Views and Re-Views: Soviet Political Tango with Cows: Book Art of the Identity, Art, and Union Roberto Abbado, conductor Riccardo Muti, conductor The Soviet-American Connection Millennium Park, 205 East Randolph Drive Posters at Home and Abroad 1941-45 James Conlon, conductor James Conlon, conductor in the Soviet Vanguard Posters and Cartoons Russian Avant-Garde, 1910–1917 Concert and multimedia presentation Leila Josefowicz, violin Thursday, May 5, 2011, 8 pm Carl Ratner, baritone www.grantparkmusicfestival.com, 312.742.7638 July 30 – October 23, 2011 Yo-Yo Ma, cello The 5 Browns August 30 – December 11, 2011 September 20 – December 4, 2011 September 23 – December 11, 2011 Saturday, April 30, 2011, 7:30 pm Sunday, May 1, 2011 Friday, May 6, 2011, 8 pm Monday, June 13, 2011, 12:15 pm Regenstein Hall, The Art Institute of Chicago, Friday, August 5, 2011 Tuesday, August 9, 2011 Smart Museum of Art, Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art, Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art, The Grant Park Music Festival will present one major St. Josaphat Parish, 2311 North Southport Avenue Mandel Hall, 1131 East 57th Street Preston Bradley Hall, Chicago Cultural Center, 111 South Michigan Avenue www.ravinia.org www.ravinia.org The University of Chicago, Northwestern University, Northwestern University, Saturday, May 7, 2011, 8 pm work by an influential, Soviet era composer during the 2011 Golosa.org, 773.834.8428 Chicagopresents.uchicago.edu, 773.702.8068 78 East Washington Street www.artinstituteofchicago.org, 312.443.3600 5550 South Greenwood Avenue 40 Arts Circle Drive, Evanston 40 Arts Circle Drive, Evanston Tuesday, May 10, 2011, 7:30 pm season. Details will be announced in early 2011. James Conlon conducts the Chicago Symphony Orchestra James Conlon conducts the Chicago Symphony Orchestra in Symphony Center, 220 South Michigan Avenue Chicagoculturalcenter.org, 312.744.6630 smartmuseum.uchicago.edu, 773.702.0200 www.blockmuseum.northwestern.edu, 847.491.4000 www.blockmuseum.northwestern.edu, 847.491.4000 Founded in 1997 at The University of Chicago, Golosá is a Kabalevsky: The Comedians Windows on the War is a monumental exhibition of the with special guest cellist Yo-Yo Ma in an all-Russian a performance of Shostakovich’s Symphony No. 5, the work CSO.org, 312.294.3000 Russian choir using folksongs, dance, stories, images, and Prokofiev: Violin Concerto No. 1 in D Major, Op. 19 Baritone Carl Ratner presents a program of music by posters designed by the Soviet Union’s news agency to evening featuring Prokofiev’s Romeo and Juliet Suite and that restored the composer to official favor after a period of This intimate exhibition offers a rare glimpse at the Coming 20 years after the fall of the USSR, Views and Tango with Cows examines book art created in response Schnittke: Moz-Art à la Haydn Tchaikovsky’s Andante Cantabile from String Quartet No. 1 censure from Soviet officials. Shostakovich called the work th traditional instruments to tell the story of the Old Believers. Mussorgsky: A Night on Bald Mountain Shostakovich and his Soviet and Russian-American bolster the morale of citizens, rouse the fighting forces at experimental creative processes that generated iconic Re-Views invites a post-Cold War assessment of Soviet to the social, cultural and political crises of early 20 - Tchaikovsky: Serenade for Strings in C Major, Op. 48 and Variations on a Rococo Theme. Download a complete “the making of a man.” The program features the 5 Browns, The performance will describe cultural exchange between Strauss: Death and Transfiguration, Op. 24 contemporaries, including art songs, popular songs, the front, and intimidate opponents behind enemy lines. Soviet propaganda in the 1920s and 1930s. Featuring graphic arts with 160 posters, cartoons, postcards and century Russia. Often working collaboratively, poets and the Americas, Europe, and Siberia in three eras, focusing and songs from films and music theater. Not seen in the United States since World War II, the TASS recording of the Romeo and Juliet Suite at www.ravinia.org. a group of 20-something siblings, each an accomplished works by Valentina Kulagina and Gustav Klutsis, it traces photomontages from a private collection. Featuring bold artists designed pages in which poetry characterized by The Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra will bring their Prokofiev: Suite from Romeo and Juliet on the use of sound in heralding regional identity within posters are boldly designed collaborations between leading pianist, working together with five grand pianos on one classic compositions from preparatory drawings and and stunning imagery spanning more than six decades, the nonsensical word combinations shared space with archaic University of Chicago residency to a tremendous close the context of larger unions. Muti brings the concerts of his inaugural season to a close Soviet writers and artists marking the progress of the war. stage in a performance of a world-premiere composed by collage studies to approved designs to posters and other exhibition suggests that artistic merit and stylistic diversity and modern scripts and with primitive and abstract imagery. with artistic partner Roberto Abbado at the helm. Violinist with two distinctive programs. Mussorgsky’s A Night on Often six feet tall and always striking, they are presented Nico Muhly, commissioned by Ravinia. mass-produced print material. can be found in work created as state propaganda and that Leila Josefowicz will make her Mandel Hall debut performing Bald Mountain, Strauss’ Death and Transfiguration and a both as unique historical objects and as works of art that not all of the criticisms of the West by Soviet political artists the Prokofiev Violin Concerto No. 1. suite from Prokofiev’s Romeo and Juliet are featured on the reveal how the pre-eminent artists and writers of the day were completely spurious or inauthentic. May 5-10 concerts. contributed to the war effort, marking a major chapter in the history of design and propaganda.
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Chicago Opera Theater The University of Chicago Library Vision and Communism Borodin Quartet Irish Chamber Orchestra Pacifica Quartet Sergey Khachatryan, violin; Rockefeller Chapel Choir University of Chicago MOSCOW, CHERYOMUSHKI Adventures in the Soviet Imaginary September 29, 2011 – January 22, 2012 Friday, October 21, 2011 Gerard Korsten, conductor Sunday, October 30, 2011, 3 pm Lusine Khachatryan, piano Sunday, November 6, 2011, 7:30 pm Symphony Orchestra April 2012 August – December 2011 Smart Museum of Art, The University of Chicago, Mandel Hall, 1131 East 57th Street Leon Fleisher, piano Mandel Hall, 1131 East 57th Street Friday, November 4, 2011 Rockefeller Chapel, 5850 South Woodlawn Avenue Barbara Schubert, Music Director and Conductor Harris Theater, 205 East Randolph Drive Special Collections Research Center, 5550 South Greenwood Avenue Chicagopresents.uchicago.edu, 773.702.8068 friday, october 28, 2011, 3pm Chicagopresents.uchicago.edu, 773.702.8068 Mandel Hall, 1131 East 57th Street Rockefeller.uchicago.edu, 773.702.7059 Saturday, December 3, 2011, 8 pm ChicagoOperaTheater.org, 312.704.8414 The University of Chicago Library, 1100 East 57th Street smartmuseum.uchicago.edu, 773.702.0200 Mandel Hall, 1131 East 57th Street Chicagopresents.uchicago.edu, 773.702.8068 Mandel Hall, 1131 East 57th Street Commanding a special position in the chamber music Schnittke: String Quartet No. 3 The Rockefeller Chapel choir performs a concert of Baltic Everyone is in for a hilarious surprise with this musical www.lib.uchicago.edu/e/spcl/, 773.702.8705 Chicagopresents.uchicago.edu, 773.702.8068 Music.uchicago.edu, 773.702.8069 In captivating images of survival and suffering, the world, the Borodin Quartet’s particular affinity with Russian Weinberg: String Quartet No. 6 J.S. Bach: Violin Sonata No. 4 in C Minor, BWV1017 composers. Program to include the Schnitkke Requiem. comedy that has recently been revived in Europe to block- Adventures in the Soviet Imaginary showcases collections postwar artist and designer Victor Koretsky articulated repertoire was stimulated by a close relationship with Haydn: Symphony No. 96 in D Major, Hob. I/96, “The Miracle” Shostakovich: String Quartet No. 3 Brahms: Violin Sonata No. 2 in A Major, Op. 100 Shostakovich: Symphony No. 7 in C Major, Op. 60, “Leningrad” buster success. Cheryomushki means “bird-cherry trees,” of Soviet children’s books, posters and other print materials a Communist vision of the world utterly unlike that of Shostakovich, who personally supervised its study of each Prokofiev: Piano Concerto No. 4, Op. 53 (For the left hand) Shostakovich: Sonata for Violin and Piano and was a real apartment complex in southwest Moscow from the Special Collections Research Center, The University conventional propaganda. Designed to create an emotional of his quartets. Elaine Agnew: Twilight The Pacifica Quartet opens their 2011 / 12 residency at the Completed on 27 December 1941, Shostakovich dedicated during the 1950’s. Shostakovich is taking a political poke of Chicago Library. The exhibition is being organized by a connection between Soviet citizens and others around the Beethoven: Symphony No. 7 in A Major, Op. 92 University of Chicago with a stunning all-Russian program. Winner of the Sibelius and Queen Elizabeth competitions, his seventh symphony to the city of Leningrad in explicit at the chronic housing shortages of the day, with libretto team of faculty and graduate students of The University of globe, Koretsky’s posters heralded the multiculturalism of Armenian violinist Sergey Khachatryan will make his condemnation of the German invasion of the Soviet Union help from two of the leading Soviet humorists at the time Chicago based in the departments of Art History, History, Benetton and MTV, while offering a dynamic alternative Master of the left-hand piano repertoire, Leon Fleisher returns Chicago recital debut with sister Lusine at the keyboard. and the ongoing siege of Leningrad. In its time, the – Vladimir Mass and Mikhail Chervinsky. Chicago Opera and Slavic Languages and Literatures. Drawing on these to the West’s sleek consumerism. Drawn from an extensive to Mandel Hall with the Irish Chamber Orchestra for his The duo released their recording of the Shostakovich and work was extremely popular in both Russia and the West Theater presents only four performances of this great work diverse backgrounds and approaches, each participant private collection of Soviet art and propaganda, Vision signature performance of the Prokofiev Piano Concerto No. 4. Franck Violin Sonatas on the Naïve Classique label in 2008. as a symbol of citizen resistance and defiance to Nazi at the Harris Theater in Millennium Park. is designing one or more display cases to be devoted to a and Communism presents a striking new interpretation totalitarianism and militarism. specific topic, including prominent historical and ideological of visual communication in the U.S.S.R. and beyond. themes, stylistic features, and the contributions of individual authors or artists.