2004: Euterpe in Furs

EUTERPE IN FURS: RUSSIAN MUSICAL CULTURE OF THE NINETEENTH AND TWENTIETH CENTURIES 
 
 
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