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From: "Sibelan Forrester" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Wednesday, January 29, 2003 8:56 PM
Subject: [SEELANGS] Readings etc. in NYC, 1/31 and 2/1/03
(Forwarded from the weekly listing sent out by Kelly Writers House at
Penn -- for more info please see below):
Two readings at Lincoln Center in NYC by virtually all the poetry
stars of the late-Soviet underground, MC'ed by Maria Sozzani Brodsky.
The poets will be reading in Russian with English translations .
Please note that this event is part of a larger Russian festival
which will also bring avant-garde composers to Lincoln Center on
roughly the same dates:
Jan 31 Fri at 8:00pm
Poetry Reading
Natalya Gorbanevskaya, Timur Kibirov, Evgenii Rein, Lev Rubinstein,
Vladimir Ufliand -- will read their poems
Lev Losev will read Akhmatova (Requiem) & Brodsky
There are also going to be recordings.
Yuz Aleshkovsky will perform his songs
Recordings of Galich & Vysotsky (video)
English translations will be read by Mark Strand, Cyntia Zarin and
Glyn Maxwell.
Feb 1 at 8:00pm
Poetry reading
Arkadii Dragomoshchenko, Kostantin Kuzminsky, Dmitrii Prigov and
Elena Shvarts -- will read their poems
Vladimir Gandelsman will read Mandelstam, Tsvetaeva and Nekrasov
Yuz Aleshkovsky will perform.
There will be recordings of Okudzhava and Matveeva.
English translations will be read by Strand, Maxwell and Zarin.
Programs may still vary slightly.
There will be a lecture given by Mikhail Iampolski on Sat, Feb 1 at
4:00pm. (Free to ticket holders from any Russian Underground Concert
or Poetry Reading)
One can order tickets ($12) by Fax: 212-875-5799 ; in person, at the
Alice Tully Box Office; by phone: 212-875-5788
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