Secret Signs: Music of Shostakovich, Auerbach & Zaretsky

Secret Signs: Music of Shostakovich, Auerbach & Zaretsky, with Words of Blok, Anna Akhmatova, Marina Tsvetaeva, Nabokov & others

Secret Signs is inspired by the courage, irony, secrecy and persistent romanticism of the 20th century Russian artistic sensibility. At the center of the program is the ever enigmatic Dmitry Shostakovich, with his enormous artistic resonance. Featured are four of his powerfully personal Songs on Poems of Alexander Blok, a close friend and colleague; intimate piano prelude transcriptions for viola and piano by pianist, composer, writer, Lera Auerbach; and the great Piano Quintet in G minor by Shostakovich. Pianist, composer, Inessa Zaretsky’s Cloud, Castle, Lake, inspired by Nabokov’s ironic Kafka-esque short story, steeped in the clandestine political nightmare of the time, is also being premiered in its violin and piano version for this program.

Featuring Guest Artists

Zhanna Alkhazova soprano

Inessa Zaretsky piano

With Aurea Members

Nigel Gore spoken word

Katherine Winterstein violin

Andrew Eng violin

Consuelo Sherba viola

Emmanuel Feldman cello

Tickets: $30 general,  $25 Senior,  $10 student

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