Shostaposium Symkovich
Louis Blois
Shostakovich Symposium taking place in New York, I felt I had no choice but to
pass along the following, more complete info about the day's events:
A symposium created by Manhattan School of Music, The Harriman Institute
of Columbia University, and Yuri Temirkanov,
Music Director of The St. Petersburg Philharmonic Orchestra
Monday, September 28, 1998
Manhattan School of Music
John C. Borden Auditorium
120 Claremont Avenue (at 122nd Street)
New York City
MORNING PROGRAM
9:30 am Welcome and Introductions
Marta Istomin, President, Manhattan School of Music
10:00 am Reading of Shostakovich Symphony No. 10 with the
Manhattan School of Music Symphony Orchestra
Yuri Temirkanov, conductor
Sergey Girshenko, concertmaster
Andrei Dogadine, first viola
Andrei Gloukhov, first horn
Marina Vorozhtsova, first flute
St. Petersburg Philharmonic Orchestra
12:30 Break
AFTERNOON PROGRAM
Chair: Mark von Hagen
Director, Harriman Institute
2:00 pm – 3:30 pm Shostakovich’s Life and Work: The Culture and Politics
of Stalin’s Russia
Dr. Mark von Hagen, Dr. Robert Maguire, Dr. Boris Gasparov
4:00 pm – 5:30 pm Personal Recollections of Dmitri Shostakovich
Yuri Temirkanov and musicians of the St. Petersburg Philharmonic
Orchestra
Bios of Participants
Dr. Mark von Hagen
Mark von Hagen, Professor of History at Columbia University, is a
leading expert in the field of Soviet history and Director of
The Harriman Institute. Dr. von Hagen’s research interests include
modern Russian and Soviet history, with emphasis on
social and cultural history; nationality history, Ukraine, and the Red
Army. He is the author of the book Soldiers in the
Proletarian Dictatorship: The Red Army and the Soviet State, 1917-1930;
co-editor with Karen Barkey of After Empire:
Multiethnic Societies and Nation Building and co-editor with Catherine
Evtuhov, Boris Gasparov, Alexander Ospovat of
Kazan, Moscow, St. Petersburg: Multiple Faces of the Russian Empire.
He is currently at work on two additional
volumes: Empire and Nation in Russian and Soviet History; and Ukraine
Between Empire and Union: Military and
Nationality Politics, 1914-1941. He has contributed numerous articles
on Soviet and post-Soviet politics, culture, identity
and ethnicity, the struggle for democracy, and the military to a range
of scholarly journals. His distinguished academic career
also includes teaching positions at Stanford University, Yale
University, and the Eastern Europe Institute of the Free
University of Berlin. Dr. von Hagen holds degrees from Stanford,
Indiana and Georgetown Universities.
Dr. Robert A. Maguire
"Bud" Maguire is the Bakhmeteff Professor of Russian Studies and the
Chairman of the Department of Slavic Languages at The
Harriman Institute. A highly-regarded expert in Slavic literature and
poetry, Dr. Maguire has served as a Visiting Professor at
Yale University, Princeton University, and Harvard University and is the
recipient of numerous awards, including a
Guggenheim Fellowship, three fellowships from The Ford Foundation, and
awards from the American Council of Learned
Societies and the Modern Language Association of America. Author of
three books (Red Virgin Soil: Soviet Literature in
the 1920’s; Gogol from the Twentieth Century: Eleven Essays; Exploring
Gogol) and numerous articles, Dr. Maguire is also
known for his outstanding translations of poetry and short stories and
was named Laureate of the Association of Authors and
Theatrical Composers for his translations of Polish literature into
English. He is currently at work on two books: a
comparative study of Russian, European, and American literary theory and
criticism, and a reading of Gogol’s Dead Souls.
Dr. Boris Gasparov
Boris "Slip" Gasparov is a Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures at
Columbia University. He received his doctorate in
Russian Linguistics from the Belorussian Academy of Science in Minsk and
also holds a graduate degree in musicology from
the Musical Pedagogical Institute in Moscow. He has received awards and
fellowships from the Hoover Institution on War,
Revolution and Peace, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the
Social Science Research Council, among others.
He received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1995. His extensive writings on
Russian and Slavic linguistics, language,
literature, mythology, religion, and history include Kazan, Moscow, St.
Petersburg: Multiple Faces of the Russian Empire
(1997), Christianity and the Eastern Slavs, vols. 1-3 (1993-95), and
Cultural Mythologies of Russian Modernism: From the
Golden Age to the Silver Age (1992). He has held teaching positions at
Yale University, the University of California,
Berkeley, Konstanz university (Germany), Swedish Academy (Stockholm),
Stanford University, Tartu University (Estonia),
and the University of Helsinki (Finland).
DAnder9518
Well, I must say that the Symposium today at the Manhattan School of Music
seemed to be quite a success. I just went to the "personal recollections" part
of the program at 4:00. Yuri Temirkanov's reminisences were quite enjoyable.
As an added bonus, Elizabeth Wilson showed up and shared a few things, and
helped to translate as well for the St. Petersburg musicians. It sounds like
she's working on a new book, but it wasn't clear.
Did anyone go for the whole day? How was it?
--------->Dave Anderson
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