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| "Russian Sundays at the 92nd Street Y," Fall 2007 Preview |
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| Tickets/Registration: 212.415.5500 |
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| Media Contact: Emily Gewitz, 212.415.5455, email |
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| "RUSSIAN SUNDAYS AT THE 92ND STREET Y" |
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| Fall 2007 |
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NEW Cultural Salon Featuring Russian Music, Literature, Film, Art and Politics |
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| ALL PROGRAMS ARE CONDUCTED IN ENGLISH |
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| New York, NY, September, 10, 2007—Lovers of Russian culture in the New York area have found a home—Russian Sundays at the 92nd Street Y, a monthly salon in the Y's intimate Weill Art Gallery. With its relaxed, club-like atmosphere conducive to conversation, the series offers the ideal setting for sampling Russian and Russian-Jewish culture. While sipping tea served from a traditional Russian samovar, guests can enjoy music by Russian musicians and composers and talks by Russian artists, scholars, and journalists. All programs are conducted in English. |
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Sun, Sep 23, 3 pm, $30
YAKOV YAVNO: THE SONGS OF OUR SOUL
In this musical cabaret, YAKOV YAVNO brings his one-man show to the Y stage with selections from favorite Yiddish, Russian and Hebrew melodies. Yavno's charismatic stage presence and unique bass-baritone singing style, which incorporates numerous musical
genres, have won him many fans across the United States, Russia and Israel.
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Sun, Oct 7, 4 pm, $30
LOST AND FOUND: MUSICAL TREASURES OF THE JEWISH UKRAINE
Alicia Svigals, violin; Art Bailey, accordion
ALICIA SVIGALS, a leading klezmer fiddler and founder of the Grammy-winning ensemble The Klezmatics, presents lost musical treasures of the Jewish Ukraine. Dedicated to preserving the works of MOSHE BEREGOVSKY, a well known Soviet-Jewish ethnomusicologist, Svigals brings tunes from his collection Popular Jewish Instrumental Music to life. The works, 17,000 in all, were originally recorded on wax cylinders during World War II that were lost when Beregovsky was exiled to Siberia.
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Thu, Oct 18, 8:15 pm, $26
GARRY KASPAROV WITH LEONARD LOPATE
Russian Garry Kasparov was the youngest ever World Chess Champion and he was the top-ranked player in the world almost continuously from 1986 until his retirement in 2005. He became involved with politics and applied what he used in chess—tactics, strategy, memory, imagination—to other aspects of life. After retiring from the game in 2005, he founded the United Civil Front, which opposes Putin's policies, and he works to establish free elections in Russia. A frequent contributor to The Wall Street Journal, Kasparov is the author of How Chess Imitates Life: Making the Right Moves, from the Board to the Bedroom (Bloomsbury, October, 2007). Kasparov talks with Leonard Lopate, the host of WNYC radio's The Leonard Lopate Show.
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Mon, Oct 22, 8 pm, $18 ($10 for anyone 35 and under, subject to availability)
READING SERIES: ANDREA BARRETT AND TATYANA TOLSTAYA
"Her work stands out for its sheer intelligence," Thomas Mallon wrote of Andrea Barrett's Ship Fever, a winner of the 1996 National Book Award. She has also been awarded a MacArthur Fellowship and was a Pulitzer Prize finalist in 2003. Barrett's books include The Voyage of the Narwhal, Servants of the Map and her latest work, The Air We Breathe (Oct 2007; W.W. Norton). Joseph Brodsky called Tatyana Tolstaya "the most original, tactile, luminous voice in Russian prose today." Tolstaya's published works include White Walls, a story collection, and the novel The Slynx, both of which were recently published in paperback editions by New York Review of Books.
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Sun, Oct 28, 3 pm, $30
PERFORMANCE: TEREM-QUARTET (ONLY New York appearance)
Andrey Konstantinov, domra soprano; Alexey Barshchev, domra alto; Andrey Smirnov, bayan-accordion; Mikhail Dzyudze, double-bass balalaika. Special Guest: Cellist Borislav Strulev
Formed in 1986, the TEREM-QUARTET has become as much a symbol of St. Petersburg as the Mariinsky Theater, the Hermitage and the Russian Museum, raising Russian folk instruments to unprecedented heights of virtuosity. Guest cellist BORISLAV STRULEV's charismatic personality and masterful technique have made him among the most exciting instrumentalists to emerge from Russia in recent years.
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Sun, Nov 4, 3 pm, $25
MEMORIES OF THE RUSSIAN REVOLUTION: 90 YEARS OF IMAGES AND PERCEPTIONS
Journalists Serge Schmeman and Michael T. Kaufman and historian Eric Lohr examine post-revolutionary Russia, an era that many believed would lead to Utopia. The panelists discuss the plight of Russian émigrés and the historiography of the Russian Revolution as it has evolved over the past century. Serge Schmemann is a Pulitzer Prize-winning writer and the editorial page editor for the International Herald Tribune. Foreign correspondent, columnist and editor Michael T. Kaufman is a retired New York Times reporter. Eric Lohr, PhD, is an assistant professor of Russian history at American University in Washington, DC.
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Sun, Nov 18, 7:30 pm, $25 [UPDATE: CANCELLED 10/25]
STATE OF THE ART: MUSIC AND CONVERSATION WITH DENIS MATSUEV
Special Guest: Cellist Borislav Strulev
On the heels of his debut recital at Carnegie Hall, pianist Denis Matsuev and Robert Martin, director of Bard's Conservatory of Music, discuss the issues facing today's young classical musicians. Matsuev, who in 1998 was a gold medalist at Moscow's prestigious International Tchaikovsky Competition, is currently a member of President Vladimir Putin's Kremlin Commission for Culture, and serves as the artistic director of two international music festivals and New Names, a foundation for new artists. During the evening, Matsuev will also perform with renowned cellist Borislav Strulev.
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Sun, Dec 30, 7 pm, $35 (includes post-concert reception and vodka tasting)
JAZZ NEW YEAR: TRUMPETER VALERY PONOMAREV AND HIS V.P. JAZZ BIG BAND!
Kick off your New Year's celebration with trumpeter Valery Ponomarev and his 16-piece V.P. Jazz Big Band in an evening of classic jazz and chilled vodka. Hilary Gardner, one of New York's most compelling young singers, also appears as a featured vocalist. The Valery Ponomarev Jazz Big Band's repertoire consists of a very wide rage of originals, jazz classics and music directly associated with Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers, with whom Ponomarev played for many years.
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| ABOUT THE 92nd STREET Y |
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Founded in 1874 by a group of visionary Jewish leaders, the 92nd Street Y has grown into a wide-ranging cultural, educational and community center serving people of all ages, races, faiths and backgrounds. The 92nd Street Y's mission is to enrich the lives of the over 300,000 people who visit each year — both in person and through the Y's satellite, television, radio and Internet broadcasts. The organization offers comprehensive performing arts, film and spoken word events; courses in the humanities, the arts, personal development and Jewish culture; activities and workshops for children, teenagers and parents; and health and fitness programs for people of every age. Committed to making its programs available to everyone, the 92nd Street Y awards nearly $1 million in scholarships annually and reaches out to 7,000 public school children through fully-subsidized arts education programs. For more information, please visit www.92Y.org. |
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