Late Czarist Russian Artistic Brilliance
The phrase “European with Asian characteristics” expresses our fascination with the enduring contribution to world culture of Russian music, art and literature created during the twilight years of Czarist Russia: Tchaikovsky, Scriabin, Rachmaninoff, Stravinsky, and Prokofiev; Kramskoy, Repin, and Levitan; Pushkin, Gogol, Turgenev, Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, and Chekhov. What cultural and historical influences helped Russians, and then the rest of the West, to recognize and to reward the gifts of these Russian artists? And how would the trajectory of European arts have been different without the genius of Russia’s contributions?
Friday, November 2, 2018
7:30 – 9:30 pm
– Introduction / George Hammond, Moderator (Humanities West)
– A Russian Success Story / Robert Greenberg (Composer, Lecturer, Performer).
Saturday, November 3, 2018
10 am – noon & 1:30 – 4 pm
– Introduction / George Hammond, Moderator (Humanities West)
– Pushkin or Gogol: Two Blueprints for 19th-Century Russian Literature / Luba Golburt
– Dostoevsky and the Golden Age of Russian Literature / Gary Hamburg
– Performance / Eugene Onegin. Introduced by Clifford (Kip) Cranna (San Francisco Opera)
– Painting the Russian Word / Molly Brunson
– Panel Discussion with the presenters, moderated by George Hammond