Saturday, October 15 @ 5pm $15
Featuring the work of Rachmaninoff, Tchaikovsky, Glinka, and Ravel
Denis Evstuhin, along with Anna Keiserman, Ivan Konev, and Anton Melnichenko
We are pleased to bring our members this special offer. Those of you who have attended Mr. Evstuhin’s previous concerts know what a spectacular performer he is.
Professor Brumfield addresses how various architectural features and designs in 18th and 19th century St. Petersburg conveyed Russian rulers’ sense of themselves and the grandeur of their empire. The presentation will be illustrated with many examples of Professor Brumfield’s photographs, taken over his four decades of experience in this magnificent city. Many of these photographs are on display for the exhibit Imperial St. Petersburg: Architectural Visions.
Denis Evstuhin returns to TMORA’s main gallery for a special “Music at the Museum” solo performance! This concert is sponsored in part by the children of Dr. John Farquhar in honor of his 80th birthday.
Dr. Kettering presents an overview of TMORA’s current Russian Imperial Porcelain exhibition, focusing on porcelain’s role in the grand spectacles of 18th century Russian court life.
The Museum of Russian Art occasionally holds member-only previews of its new exhibitions. Photos from the March 4, 2011 preview of the exhibition Shades of Red are available in the right-hand photo gallery.
“Music at the Museum” returns with a stirring program of piano duets featuring compositions by Rachmaninoff, Shostakovich, and Arensky on Saturday, February 19, 2011. For the first time, two pianos will fill TMORA’s galleries with dynamic Russian classical music!
St. Mary’s Balalaika Orchestra, a group of parishioners from St. Mary’s Orthodox Cathedral in Northeast Minneapolis, play authentic balalaikas and domras, recreating the traditional music of Slavic lands such as Russia and Ukraine.
Free for members; $10 for non-members.
Professor Hirsch discusses how the Nuremberg Trials of 1945-46 became one of the first fronts of postwar competition between the USSR and its former wartime allies—a competition in which the USSR did not fare well. The United States proved far more adept at shaping the trials and using them to advance a postwar agenda. By evaluating the USSR’s contributions, Hirsch suggests that although Nuremberg was a failure for the USSR, it taught the Soviets important lessons that shaped their development as an international power.
–Robert Schnieder, Editor of the American Historical Review
“Basically, I offer an answer to the perennial question among English-speaking audiences: ‘Why can’t the Russians be like us?’”
—David McDonald
The historic Russian North, the territory extending from the White Sea basin, is home to a remarkable culture little known in the West. For over two decades Professor William Brumfield has explored, photographed and published several books on this area—its traditional log buildings, churches and monasteries. His lecture will present a richly illustrated view of this culture through its architecture in the Vologda and Arkhangelsk territories—regions that were highlighted in TMORA’s recent exhibition The Road North.