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 The University of Pennsylvania's Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures
with the support of the Department of History, Department of Music, and Comparative Literature Program

Present:

EUTERPE IN FURS:

RUSSIAN MUSICAL CULTURE OF THE NINETEENTH AND TWENTIETH CENTURIES

 Interdisciplinary Symposium

March 4-5, 2004

 "Russian Musical Culture of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries" is a two-day symposium devoted to the discussion of Russian music in its relations to literature, theater,
visual arts, anthropology, social history, philosophy, and other relevant areas.

Thursday, March 4, 7:30 pm
Penn Humanities Forum, 3619 Locust Walk
Concert of Russian chamber music for guitar by Oleg Timofeev

Friday, March 5, 11:00 am

Max Kade Center, Room 329-A, 3401 Walnut Street
Symposium on Russian Musical Culture

 

Symposium Participants

• Boris Gasparov, Columbia University
"Farewell to the Enchanted Garden: Pushkin, Nicholas' s Russia, and Glinka's Ruslan and Ludmila."

• Oleg Timofeyev, University of Iowa
"The Complex Topography of Ruslan and Ludmila: Italian Opera, Exotic Neighbors, and Glinka's Search for `Russian Music'"

• Kevin Platt, University of Pennsylvania
"Ivan the Terrible in Opera, Arts, and Politics"

• David MacFadyen, UCLA
"It Flooded the Room and Burst Through the Doors: Some Aspects of Music in
Twentieth-Century Russian Storytelling"

• Caryl Emerson, Princeton University
"Shostakovich and the Russian Literary Tradition: Gogol-Dostoevsky"

• Simon Morrison, Princeton University
"Abram Room and Prokofiev's Unknown Film Score Tonya"

• Andrew Baruch Wachtel, Northwestern University
"Improving a Bad Text: Schnitke's Life with an Idiot"

Discussants: Benjamin Nathans and Liliane Weissberg, University of Pennsylvania.

*Electronic copies of the papers will be available 5 days prior to symposium *