YALE UNION (YU)

A Performance
Sunday, March 3, 2013, 2pm: $22/$15/$11
Tickets Available at the Door

Resonance Ensemble presents a program of Soviet choral compositions at Yale Union. Under the Soviet regime’s strict censorship, composers found different ways to cope. They wrote nationalist propaganda, subversive works in “musical code,” or oppositional pieces that endangered their lives or forced them into exile. This concert, presented by Resonance Ensemble as part of A Shostakovich Festival, will include choral pieces by Shostakovich, Pärt, Ligeti, Prokofiev, and others.

Part I: Musical Propaganda
Ten Songs on Poems of 19th Century Revolutionary Poets, op. 88 (Dmitri Shostakovich, Russia, 1951)
On Guard for Peace (Sergei Prokofiev, Russia, 1951)

Part II: Subtle Subversion
Ejszaka — Reggel (Györgi Ligeti, Hungary, 1955)
“To Anna Achmatowa,” from Six Songs to Poems by Marina Tsvetaeva (Dmitri Shostakovich, Russia, 1973)
Concerto in memory of Alexander Yurlov (Georgy Sviridov, Russia, 1973)
Evening Bells (Alexander Aliabiev, Russia)

Intermission

Part III: Coded Protests
Raua Needmine (Curse Upon Iron) (Veljo Tormis, Estonia, 1972)
Pūt, vējiņi (arr. Imant Raminsh, Latvia)
Ta lendab mesipuu poole (Peep Sarapik, Estonia)
Credo (Arvo Pärt, Estonia, 1968)