Shostakovich Symposium at the HSLU
A two-day Shostakovich symposium will take place at the Lucerne School of Music at the end of January 2013 as part of a music festival entitled "Change of Scene".
This symposium on January 28 and 29 will focus on Shostakovich's early works in the context of their aesthetic, cultural and political conditions, which have only begun to be researched to date.
In order to gain a deeper understanding of Shostakovich's oeuvre and the period around 1930, the symposium is designed to be interdisciplinary. It will allow renowned scholars to explore the various aspects of the main theme from different disciplinary perspectives. The contributions will subsequently be published in a symposium report.
On the evening of the first day of the symposium, the silent movie The New Babylon (directed by Grigori Kozintsev and Leonid Trauberg) from 1929, for which Shostakovich composed the music.
More info: www.hslu.ch/schostakowitsch2013
Image: Shostakovich in the 1940s - wikimedia.org
