With guidance from Thomas Hodge, Professor of Russian at Wellesley College, Trio Cleonice developed an ambitious curriculum in preparation for their upcoming Artist Residency, The Russian Soul—The Russian Voice, taking place this May and culminating with a performance of Tchaikovsky and Shostakovich on May 10th at Next Stage in Putney, VT.
On May 4th at 7pm at the Putney Public Library Professor Hodge will introduce their project, which aims to draw connections between Russian literature and language and Russian music. We invite you to explore these works along with the Trio, and then bring your curiosity on May 4th, wherever you are in your journey.
Related reading for Tchaikovsky's Piano Trio in A Minor, Op. 50
Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace. (Vintage Classics), translated by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky.
Leo Tolstoy, The Death of Ivan Il’ich and “Master and Man,” in Tolstoy’s Short Fiction, 2nd edn. (Norton Critical Edition), translated by Michael Katz
Selected elegiac poetry by Afanasii Fet
Related reading for Shostakovich's Piano Trio No. 2 in E Minor, Op. 67
Mikhail Zoshchenko, Nervous People and Other Satires and Berfore Sunrise (excerpts)
William Shakespeare, Sonnet No. 66, translated by Boris Pasternak.
Anton Chekhov, “Rothschild’s Violin” in Anton Chekhov’s Short Stories (Norton Critical Edition).