The expression Golden Age of Russian culture refers to the process that led the Russian people to the encounter with their identity, ignored by the imposition, for more than two centuries, of a foreign culture, an alien language, lifestyles and protocols that were totally foreign to the essence of the Russian soul.
1812, the year of the defeat by the Russian army of the invading Napoleonic force, can be considered the starting point of the beginning of this quest, which followed very different paths.
From October 4 to May 24
PROGRAM
Class 1 – Soul of a patriot
Alexander I and the Napoleonic Invasion. Overture from 1812, op.49
Class 2 – The withered soul
The Decembrist revolt. Nicholas I. Symphony No. 1 in G minor, op. 13 “Winter Dreams”
Class 3 – The fairies of the soul
The Bolshoi and the Marinsky. Swan Lake, op.20
Class 4 – Two Souls in One
Moscow versus St. Petersburg. Pictures at an exhibition
Class 5 – The rebellion of the soul
Tchaikovsky in front of The Five. Pictures at an exhibition II
Class 6 -Lost souls
Alexander II and Alexander III facing the airs of freedom. The emancipation of the serfs. Symphony No. 2 in C minor, op.17 “Little Russia”.
Class 7 – The gift of the soul
Faberge and the decorative arts. Iolanta, op.69
Class 8 – The fallen soul
Nicholas II. The end of the Romanovs. Sleeping Beauty, op.66
Class 9 – Portraying the soul
The portraitists: Ilia Repin, Vasily Perov and Valentin Serov. Symphony No. 3, op.29
Class 10 – The purchased soul
Patronage: Morozov, Tretyakov, Montov. Piano Concerto No. 1 in B flat minor, op. 23
Class 11 -The romantic soul
Aleksandr Pushkin. Searching for the concept of the nation. Eugene Onegin, op.24 and The Queen of Spades, op.68.
Class 12 – Dead souls
Nikolai Gogol. The meaning of being Russian. Symphony No. 4, op.36
Class 13 – Soul of a poet
Mikhail Lermontov. The poet of the Caucasus. Symphony No. 5, op.64
Class 14 -The reflection of the soul
Ivan Turgeneev. The contradictions. Manfred Symphony in B minor, op.58
Class 15 -Torment of the soul
Feodor Dostoevsky. The portrait of the new Russia. Piano Concerto No. 2, op.44
Class 16 – The Search for the Soul
Leo Tolstoy and the Kreutzer Sonata. Violin Concerto, op.35
Class 17 – Matryoshka’s Soul
Anton Chekhov. The Family. String quartet nº2, op.22
Class 18 – The passion of the soul
Maxim Gorky. The song of the revolution. Symphony No. 6 in B minor, Op. 74 “Pathetique”
Class 19 – Russian soul
Mikhail Glinka. Musical nationalism. A life for the Tsar
Class 20 – Soul of a woman
Aleksandr Borodin. Women’s rights. In the steppes of Central Asia
Class 21 -The eyes of the soul
Modest Musorgski. The Orthodox Church. Boris Godunov
Class 22 – Soul of the East
Milij Balakirev. The myth of exotic Russia. Islamey
Class 23 – The observed soul
Cesar Cui. Kaleidoskope, op.50
Class 24 – The singing of the soul
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov The Snow Maiden
Course:
Mondays from 11:30am to 13:00pm
Wednesday: From 10:00am to 11:30am / From 11:30am to 13:00pm
Thursdays: From 10:00am to 11:30am/ From 11:30am to 13:00pm
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