Interdisciplinary Symposium/Festival
(M)other Russia: Evolution or Revolution
Twenty Years since the Collapse of Communism
Presented by The Centre for Russian Music, Goldsmiths, University of London
In association with the Institute of Musical Research and BBC Symphony Orchestra
26 – 27 April 2012
Chancellor’s Hall, Senate House
Malet Street
London
WC1E 7HU
28 April 2012
The Barbican Centre
29 April 2012
Great Hall, Goldsmiths College
22 Lewisham Way, SE14
Thursday, 26 April
The Chancellor’s Hall
Session 1: Music, Art, Politics and Ideology in Post-Soviet Period
10am
Key-note address:
Sir Rodric Braithwaite, a former UK Ambassador to Russia
Russia Today
Coffee
11:00
Irina Souch (University of Amsterdam)
Double Thinking: the Tactics of Surviving (post-)Soviet Ideology
11:30
Tania Tsaregradskaia (Russian Academy of Music, Moscow)
Pärt and Khodorkovsky
Lunch (own arrangements)
1:30 – Lunchtime concert:
Vladimir Tarnopolski Eindruck-Ausdruck (1996)
Faradzh Karaev Are You Still Alive, Mr Minister??!! (1997)
Elena Firsova - A Triple Portrait (2011)
The Marsyas Trio: Helen Vidovich (flute), Fei Ren (piano), Valerie Welbanks (cello)
Goldsmiths Contemporary Music Ensemble, conducted by Alexander Ivashkin
Launch of the CD: Nikolai Korndorf (Toccata Classic)
Session 2: Music: Post-Soviet Transformations
2:30
Rebecca Turner (Goldsmiths)
Nirvana and Physical Love as a Form Concept in ‘Habil Sayagi’, by Frangiz Ali-Zadeh: Mugham and European Traditions in Post-Soviet Times.
3:00
Valerie Welbanks (Goldsmiths)
Post–Soviet Gubaidulina
Tea
Session 3: Opera, Theatre and Film
3:45
Paolo Eustachi (Independent scholar, Rome, Italy):
Evolution of Film-Soundtrack in the Post-Soviet Russia: Valentin Silvestrov and Leonid Desyatnikov
4:15 pm
Ivana Medic (Open University, London)
Idiots, Devils and Sinners: Alfred Schnittke's Post-Soviet Operas
Tea
[Session 3 continues]
4:45 pm
Irina Snitkova (Russian Academy of Music, Moscow)
Great Russia Myth and the Bolshoi Theatre: Russian History in the opera productions of the 2000s.
5:15
Vladimir Marchenkov (Ohio University, USA)
Abject Truth: Tarkovsky’s Boris in the Post-Soviet Context
Friday, 27 April 2012
The Chancellor’s Hall
Session 4: Post-Soviet Minimalism
9:30
Film: After Bach (Russian Minimalists in Discussion)
10:00
Laila Woozeer (Royal Holloway)
Minimalism: American and Russian
10:30
Tara Wilson (Goldsmiths)
Russian and (former) Soviet Post-Minimalist Music: Liberties, Developments and Paradoxes since 1991
Coffee
Session 5: Post-Soviet Literature and Visual Arts
11:15
Arnold McMillin (SSEES, London)
Post-Soviet Belarusian Literature Before and After Exile
11:45am
Anna Zhurba (The Tretiakov Gallery, Moscow)
Post-soviet Russian political art – evolution or degradation of soviet tradition.
Lunch (own arrangements)
1: 30 pm Lunch-time recital:
Kate Ryder, piano, toy piano
New Piano Music from Post-Soviet Russia
Faradzh Karaev ( Azerbaijan/Russia): "...Monsieur Beeline - eccentric"
Elena Kats-Chernin (Uzbekistan/Australia ): Little Waltz for Kate (from the opera "the Rage of Life")
Ekaterina Kulikova (Russia): CHESS - A Game with White and Black
Arvo Pärt (Estonia ): Für Alina
Vladimir Tarnopolski (Russia ): Eindruck-Ausdruck [Impression-Expression]
Dmitri Yanov-Yanovsky (Uzbekistan/USA ): Allusions and Reminiscences
Iraida Yusupova (Turkmenistan/Russia ): Consolamentum
Session 6: Aesthetics and Theory
2:45pm
Levon Hakobian (Moscow Institute of Art Studies)
A Mirror of the Post-Soviet Symphonic Culture
3:15
Ildar Khannanov (Peabody Conservatory, Johns Hopkins University, USA)
Yuri Kholopov’s Concept of Harmony on the Collision Course with Schenkerian Analysis: The Conditions of Russian Music Theory after 1991
3:45
Alexander Ivashkin (Goldsmiths)
Songs My Mother Taught Me: Double-Recycling in the Post-Soviet Music
Tea
4:30
Key-note address:
Vladimir Tarnopolski (Moscow Conservatoire)
Science of Language
5: 15 pm
Round Table Discussion
Saturday, 28 April
The Barbican Centre, 11am – 10pm
Arvo Pärt: Full Immersion:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/orchestras/events/575
Sunday, 29 April
Great Hall, Goldsmiths
1:00 pm
Concert:
Radvilovich - Big Brother, Anti-utopia, texts by George Orwell, Aldous Huxley, Hermann Hesse and Evgeny Zamiatin, for baritone, invisible bass, narrators, women’s choir and ensemble, 2007
Raskatov - Ritual, 1997, text by Velimir Khlebnikov, for soprano and percussion instruments, 1997
Gubaidulina –Sonnengesang [Canticle of the Sun], text by St Francis from Assisi, for solo cello, chamber choir and percussion, 1997.
Pärt – L’Abbee Agathon, text by Isaac of Syria, for soprano and eight cellos, original version, 2004.
Goldsmiths Chamber Choir,
Goldsmiths Contemporary Music Ensemble
The TrinityGold Cello Ensemble directed by Natalia Pavlutskaya
Elena Vassilieva, soprano, percussion instruments
Minna Nygren, soprano
James Schouten, baritone
Valerie Welbanks, cello
Deborah King (narrator)
Georgia Matthews (narrator)
James Hurst (narrator)
Alexander Ivashkin, conductor
2:30
Launch of the Archive of Post -Soviet Music at the Centre for Russian Music.
3:00
Alexander Ivashkin in Discussion with the leading Post-Soviet Composers:
Vladimir Tarnopolski, Alexander Raskatov, Faradzh Karaev, Dmitri Smirnov, Elena Firsova
Booking form:
www.gold.ac.uk/crm
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