St. Martin’s Episcopal Church

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;…