Celebration of Tolstoy's 175th Birthday in Toronto

[Donna Orwin]

A CELEBRATION OF TOLSTOY AT UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO

The Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures will mark the 175th
anniversary of the birth of Russian novelist Lev Nikolaevich Tolstoy
with a lecture, concert and an art exhibition this fall.

On the afternoon of Sunday, November 2, at the Faculty of Music▓s Walter
Hall, there will be a celebration of Tolstoy that includes:

· a lecture by Tolstoy▓s great great grandson, Vladimir Ilych Tolstoy,
director of the Tolstoy Estate Museum of Iasnaia Poliana in Russia,
about Tolstoy and his descendants.  The lecture will be in Russian with
an English text provided.

· a performance by violinist Scott St. John and pianist Lydia Wong of
Beethoven▓s Kreutzer Sonata.

· Russian style-refreshments at intermission.

· excerpts of Prokofiev▓s opera War and Peace, based on Tolstoy▓s epic
novel, performed by vocalists from the opera division of the Faculty of
Music and directed by Professor John Hawkins.

Tickets for the entire afternoon▓s event, running from 1:15 to 5 p.m.,
are $25, ($15 for students and seniors) and are available from the box
office at 416-978-3744.

A free exhibition √ Tolstoy and the Arts √ is in the main display space
on the second floor of Robarts Library, 130 St. George Street, from
October 15 to December 31.  The Tolstoy celebration is sponsored by the
Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures with support from the
Centre for Russian and East European Languages, the Russian Consulate in
Toronto, the Petro Jacyk Centre and the Slavic Research Group of the
University of Ottawa. For more information, contact the Department of
Slavic Languages and Literatures at 416-926-2075.

MEDIA CONTACT:
Prof. Donna
Orwin
Kim Luke
Department of Slavic Languages and
Literatures                                   Faculty of Arts and
Science
416-926-1300
x.3316
416-978-4352
donna.orwin at utoronto.ca
kim.luke at utoronto.ca

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