Prokofiev
and His World

Symposium

Stalin and Stalinists

Multipurpose room, Bertelsmann Campus Center
10 am–noon
1:30 pm – 3:30 pm
Jonathan Becker, moderator; Jonathan Brent, Nina Khrushcheva, Stephen Kotkin, Leonid Maximenkov, Lewis H. Siegelbaum

Free and open to the public.

Special Showing

Prokofiev: The Unfinished Diary

Bertelsmann Campus Center, Weis Cinema
5 pm
A film by Yosif Feyginberg (2008)
Produced by Take 3 Productions Inc. (Canada) and 13 Production (France)
Executive Producers: Barbara Barde, Paul Saadou, and Yosif Feyginberg

Program Six

White Russians Abroad

Sosnoff Theater
7:30 pm Preconcert Talk: Rebecca Stanton
8 pm Performance: Bard Festival Chorale, James Bagwell, choral director; members of the American Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Leon Botstein, music director

Sergey Prokofiev (1891–1953)
  From Ivan the Terrible, Op. 116 (1942–44)
Serge Rachmaninoff (1873–1943)
  From All-night Vigil, Op. 37 (1915)
Igor Stravinsky (1882–1971)
  Symphony of Psalms (1930)
Aleksandr Grechaninoff (1864–1956)
  From The Seven Days of the Passion, Op. 58 (1911–12)
Works by Nicolas Obukhov (1892–1954)
Tickets: $20, 35, 45
+ Round-trip transportation by coach from Columbus Circle to the Fisher Center will be provided for this performance. For information, please call 845-758-7900. Reservations required.

Program Seven

From Broadway to Gorky Street

Olin Hall
10 am Performance with Commentary by Mitchell Morris, with James Bassi, piano; Jonathan Hays, baritone; Melissa Fogarty, soprano, Robert Mack, tenor

Sergey Prokofiev (1891–1953),
  From Songs of Our Days, Op. 76 (1937)
Songs by Vernon Duke (1909–69); George Gershwin (1898–1937); Jerome Kern (1885–1945); Cole Porter (1891–1964); Isaak Dunayevsky (1900–55); and others

Tickets: $30

Program Eight

The Return to the U.S.S.R.

Olin Hall
1 pm Preconcert Talk: Laurel Fay
1:30 pm Performance: Bard Festival String Quartet; Randolph Bowman, flute; Frederic Chiu, piano; Benjamin Hochman, piano; Erica Kiesewetter, violin; Dmitry Rachmanov, piano

Sergey Prokofiev (1891–1953)
  String Quartet No. 2 in F Major, Op. 92 (1941)
  Sonata in D Major, Op. 94, for flute and piano (1943)
Samuil Feinberg (1890–1962)
  Piano Sonata No. 8, Op. 21a (1933–34)
Aram Khachaturian (1903–78)
  Song-Poem, “In Honor of an Ashugh” (1929)
Dmitrii Shostakovich (1906–75)
  String Quartet, No. 3 in F Major, Op. 73 (1946)

Tickets: $35

Special Showing

Prokofiev: The Unfinished Diary

Bertelsmann Campus Center, Weis Cinema
5 pm
A film by Yosif Feyginberg (2008)
Produced by Take 3 Productions Inc. (Canada) and 13 Production (France)
Executive Producers: Barbara Barde, Paul Saadou, and Yosif Feyginberg

Program Nine

Manufacturing a Soviet Sound

Sosnoff Theater
7 pm Preconcert Talk: TBA
8 pm Performance: Gavriel Lipkind, cello; American Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Leon Botstein, music director

Sergey Prokofiev (1891–1953)
  Summer Night, Op. 123 (1950)
 Symphony-Concerto in E Minor, Op. 125 (1950–51, rev. 1952)
Nikolay Myaskovsky (1881–1950)
  Symphony No. 13 in B-flat Minor, Op. 36 (1933)  Symphony No. 16 in F Major, Op. 39 (1935–36)

Tickets: $25, 40, 55

Panel Three

Religion, Spirituality, and Music

Olin Hall
10 am–noon
Christopher H. Gibbs, moderator; Leon Botstein; Simon Morrison; Maya Pritsker

Free and open to the public

Program Ten

Formalism: Challenge and Response

Olin Hall
1 pm Preconcert Talk: Richard Wilson
1:30 pm Performance: Michael Abramovich, piano; Frederic Chiu, piano; Benjamin Hochman, piano; Dina Kuznetsova, soprano; Dmitry Rachmanov, piano; Sophie Shao, cello; Scott Williamson, tenor; and others

Sergey Prokofiev (1891–1953)
  Piano Sonata No. 9 in C Major, Op. 103 (1947)
  Sonata for Unaccompanied Cello, Op. 134 (unpbl.)
  Arias from Semyon Kotko, Op, 81 (1939) and
  The Story of a Real Man, Op. 117 (1947–48)
Dmitrii Shostakovich (1906–75)
  From 24 Preludes and Fugues, Op. 87 (1950–51)
Dmitrii Kabalevsky (1904–87)
  Seven Merry Songs, Op. 41 (1945)
Vladimir Shcherbachyov (1887–1952)
  From Groza, suite, arranged for piano four-hand (1934)

Tickets: $35

Program Eleven

20th-Century Russia: Nostalgia and Reality

Sosnoff Theater
4:30 pm Preconcert Talk: Christopher H. Gibbs
5:30 pm Performance: Dina Kuznetsova, soprano; Scott Williamson, tenor; Bard Festival Chorale, James Bagwell, choral director; Gramercy Brass Orchestra of New York, John Henry Lambert, music director; American Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Leon Botstein, music director

Sergey Prokofiev (1891–1953)
  Egyptian Nights Suite (1934)
  They Are Seven, cantata after Bal’mont, Op. 30 (1917–18; rev. 1933)
   Cantata for the 20th Anniversary of the October Revolution, Op. 74 (1936–37)
Vladimir Dukelsky (Vernon Duke) (1909–69)
  Epitaph (1932)
Serge Rachmaninoff (1873–1943)
  Three Russian Songs, Op. 41 (1926)

Tickets: $25, 40, 55