Shostakovich at Illinois

[mcfinke]

The Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures at the University  
of Illinois Champaign-Urbana is pleased to announce the symposium,  
"Shostakovich: The Quartets in Context," which takes place February  
21-22 on the Urbana campus.

For a full program, see: http://www.slavic.uiuc.edu/about/symposium/ 
index.html

Those of you whose research or teaching involves Shostakovich will  
want to be aware of the research guide recently posted by the  
director of the  Slavic Reference Service at Illinois, Helen  
Sullivan: http://uiuc.libguides.com/shostakovich

The Symposium features keynote talks by Laurel Fay, Simon Morrison,  
and Richard Taruskin.
Panel presentations by Katerina Clark, Sheila Fitzpatrick, Henry  
Fogel, Leah Goldman, William Hussey, Judith Kuhn, Wendy Lesser,  
Gerard McBurney, Rebecca Mitchell, Rosina Neginsky, Carl Niekerk,  
Gilbert Rappaport, Richard Tempest, Robert Tierney, and the members  
of the Pacifica Quartet: Simin Ganatra, Sibbi Bernhardsson, Masumi  
Per Rostad, Brandon Vamos.

Performance of Quartets 11, 13, 14, & 15 by Grammy Award winning  
Pacifica Quartet, evening of Feb. 22. (You can find video clips of  
the Quartet members playing and speaking about Shostakovich at:  
http://www.slavic.uiuc.edu/about/symposium/pacificavideo/index.html  )

All talks free and open to the public. For tickets to the concert,  
see: http://www.krannertcenter.illinois.edu/

Please address questions to: slavic at illinois.edu


Michael Finke, Professor and Head
Dept. of Slavic Languages and Literatures
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
3072 FLB, MC-170
707 S. Mathews Ave.
Urbana, IL  61801

mcfinke at illinois.edu
(217) 244-3068





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