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 4: Shostakovich

Thurdsay, March 11, 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 - Part Four" will conclude the new series offered this year by the Russian Club of MIT and the Educational Bridge Project.  The topic of this "Conversation" will be "Dmitri Shostakovich's Leningrad Symphony."

Written in 1941 when the Soviet composer was 35 years old, Shostakovich's Symphony No. 7 instantly became known as the Leningrad Symphony and deservedly received worldwide acclaim as a masterpiece commemoration of current historic events.

Dr. Ludmilla Leibman, the Executive Director of the Educational Bridge Project, is a musicologist who lived in Leningrad, matriculating from the Leningrad Conservatory, before coming to the U.S.  She will speak about the music of the Leningrad Symphony and will offer an analysis of Shostakovich's very special, perhaps unique approach to creating a war symphony.

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.