Fw: MUSIC AND DICTATORSHIP - Carnegie Hall, Feb. 20 & 22

[Shirona <shirona...>]

Nikolai Kachanov, Maestro and voice teacher extraordinaire, (I've been
studying voice with him for over 6 years) - will be performing with his
choir - the Russian Chamber Chorus of NY - in Carnegie Hall with Vladimir
Ashkenazy.  This is big time, folks!

Please check out an interview with him at

http://www.van.org/articles/NikolaiKachanovinterview20030113.htm

and read on for details on this important concert.

Shirona

Subject: MUSIC AND DICTATORSHIP - Carnegie Hall, Feb. 20 & 22


>
> Dear friends:
>
> The Russian Chamber Chorus of New York is excited
> and proud to be performing with the Czech Philharmonic
> Orchestra and Maestro Vladimir Ashkenazy in the
> upcoming Carnegie Hall concert series entitled
> MUSIC AND DICTATORSHIP: RUSSIA UNDER STALIN.
>
> The concerts will be performed on Thursday, February 20,
> and Saturday, February 22 at 8 p.m. in Carnegie Hall,
> 57th Street at 7th Avenue.
>
> At those concerts, you will witness the possibilities and
> the role of music and artists under conditions of serious
> oppression. As our artistic director Nikolai Kachanov put
> it in a recent interview:
>
> "It is important for us to study the past not just through
> the distancing lens of history, but through art as well,
> which gives us a deeper, more psychological
> understanding." (The complete interview can be found as
> posted 1/13/03 on www.van.org, the website of the Vocal
> Area Network.)
>
> RCCNY will be collaborating with The Dessoff Choirs,
> another of New York City's finest a cappella choral
> groups. We will perform works by Prokofiev and
> Shostakovich, two brilliant and well-known composers of
> their time, who came under the personal scrutiny of
> Stalin himself.
>
> For tickets, please contact the Carnegie Hall Box Office
> online at www.carnegiehall.org, or call CarnegieCharge
> at +1 212 247-7800
>
> ==========================================================
>
> The complete program listings follow. Selections marked
> with an asterisk (*) feature the Russian Chamber Chorus
> of New York and The Dessoff Choirs.
>
> Thursday, February 20:
>
> * PROKOFIEV Excerpt from Ivan the Terrible (with film)
> SHOSTAKOVICH "The Assault on Red Hill" from
> The Unforgettable Year 1919
> * SHOSTAKOVICH Excerpt from The Fall of Berlin (with film)
> * SHOSTAKOVICH Antiformalist Rayok
> SHOSTAKOVICH Chamber Symphony, Op. 110a
>       (arr. Rudolf Barshai)
>
> Saturday, February 22:
>
> Reading of "Dwarf Birches" by the author, Yevgeny
> Yevtushenko
> * PROKOFIEV Hail to Stalin
> KABALEVSKY Cello Concerto No. 2
> Reading of "Babi Yar" by the author, Yevgeny Yevtushenko
> * SHOSTAKOVICH Symphony No. 13, "Babi Yar"
>
> In Nikolai Kachanov's words: "The works on the 'Music and
> Dictatorship' program document the very worst period of
> the Soviet Union - a time when freedom of expression was
> utterly suppressed, and even being suspected of incorrect
> thoughts could mean imprisonment and death. And yet, for
> many of us, there was still one avenue through which we
> could express ourselves: music. Music was our salvation."
>
> We invite you to share in these extraordinary concert
> events.
>
> =========================================================
>
> For more information about the Russian Chamber Chorus
> of New York, please visit www.rccny.org or call
> +1 212 928-1402
>
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> at mail (at) rccny(dot)org or reply to this e-mail.
>
>


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