Ensō  Quartet

FREE CONCERTS!

Multnomah County Central Library
Sun, Mar 17
12:30 - 1:30 pm

Beaverton City Library
Sun, Mar 17
3:30 - 4:30 pm

A Shostakovich Festival Outreach

Link to A Shostakovich Festival

LECTURES

Shostakovich and Soviet Culture

Evgenii V. Bershtein, Associate Professor of Russian at Reed College discusses Soviet culture during Shostakovich’s time.
Sat, Mar 9
1:30 - 2:30 pm
Multnomah County Central Library, U.S. Bank Room
FREE admission

Will the Real Dmitri Please Stand Up?

Peter Kupfer, Assistant Professor of Music History at Meadows School of the Arts at Southern Methodist University, talks about the search for meaning in the music of Shostakovich.
Sat, Mar 9
3:00 - 4:00 pm
Multnomah County Central Library, U.S. Bank Room
FREE admission

Tradition & Intimacy in The Quartets of Shostakovich

Peter Kupfer, Assistant Professor of Music History at Meadows School of the Arts at Southern Methodist University, addresses how Shostakovich’s quartets represent more “private” utterances, and how they can be understood within the tradition of the string quartet.
Sun, Mar 10
1:30 - 2:30 pm
Lincoln Recital Hall (Rm 75), PSU
FREE admission

ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSION

Jerusalem Quartet Tells All

A conversation with the Jerusalem Quartet about the demands and rewards of performing a Shostakovich cycle; moderated by All Classical
radio’s Robert McBride.
Tue, Mar 12
11:00 am - 12:00 pm
Lincoln Recital Hall (Rm 75), PSU
FREE admission

OPEN REHEARSAL

String Quartet + String Quartet

The Jerusalem Quartet joins four PSU students to rehearse Shostakovich’s Prelude & Scherzo: Two Pieces for String Octet, Op. 11
Tue, Mar 12
12:30 - 1:30 pm
Lincoln Recital Hall (Rm 75), PSU
FREE admission