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Background artwork: SPECIAL COLLECTIONS UCHICAGO LIBRARY Kaplan and Fridkin, Agit No. 2 MUSIC THEATER ART MUSIC THEATER LECTURE / CLASS MUSIC MUSIC MUSIC / FILM LECTURE / CLASS MUSIC 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. MUSIC MUSIC MUSIC RADIO MUSIC MUSIC LECTURE / CLASS THEATER MUSIC MUSIC DANCE 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. Petipa and L. 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.