Conversations on Russian Music:

A four-part series of performances and discussions on musical masterpieces by Russian composers: Mussorgsky, Tchaikovsky, Prokofiev and Shostakovich.

Presented by
Russian Connection / Russian Club @ MIT
and the Educational Bridge Project

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Part 3: Prokofiev

Thursday, February 18, 2010
8:00-9:00 PM
Killian Hall
Room 14W-111, at MIT Hayden Library Bldg
160 Memorial Drive, Cambridge MA

Entrance donation: $5

Conversations on Russian Music, presented by the Russian Club of MIT and the Educational Bridge Project, will continue during the 2010 spring semester. The first two "Conversations," held during the autumn semester of 2009, highlighted the relationship of music to other artistic media: the former involved a discussion of the connection between music and visual art in Mussorgsky's "Pictures at an Exhibition;" the latter involved a discussion of the junction of poetry and music in Tchaikovsky's "Eugene Onegin."

The third "Conversation" will continue in the same vein, featuring Sergei Prokofiev's musical score for Sergei Eisenstien's masterpiece film, Alexander Nevsky (1938) and emphasizing the interplay of two different art-forms, this time music and cinematography. Conversations on Russian Music: Part Three is scheduled for Thursday, February 18^th from 8 to 9 p.m. in Killian Hall.

Dr. Ludmilla Leibman, a Russian-born musicologist and the Executive Director of the Educational Bridge Project, will demonstrate how Prokofiev modified his individual style to create custom-made music for Eisenstein's movie, which at the time of its release was perceived more as a political statement than anything a work of art.

Bio:

* Ludmilla Leibman:

Ludmilla Leibman - pianist, music theorist, and lecturer - developed her teaching career in two countries. In Russia she taught for thirteen years in the theory/composition department of her alma mater, the Saint Petersburg (Leningrad) Rimsky-Korsakov Conservatory. In the United States, after receiving her doctorate from Boston University, she taught music theory there from 1998 to 2006. In addition, Dr. Leibman is the Executive Director of The Educational Bridge Project, an organization she founded in 1997 with the goal of providing forums for cultural exchanges between United States and Russia. The Educational Bridge Project was incorporated as a not-for-profit organization in 2006.

For more information, please contact Sergey Nikolenko.

Funded by ARCADE.