Please join us for an evening of musical performance complemented by insights from documentary archives as part of Columbia University’s year-long celebration of the 100th anniversary of Sergei Prokofiev’s American debut in New York City.
“Discovering Prokofiev: Music and the Archive” is a unique program that brings together live music and documentary archives. Cynthia Liu, CC ’18, performs three solo piano works that highlight Prokofiev’s virtuosity as a composer and foreground the notions of interruption and irony, themes that recur brilliantly and tragically in Prokofiev’s art and life. Archivist Natalia Ermolaev (GSAS ‘10), an alumnus of Columbia’s Department of Slavic Languages, complements the music with insights from the archive, illustrating the importance of documentary traces in mapping the complex, transnational impact of Prokofiev’s music for the last century.
Click here to see the recap of the November event in Paris – including photos and video clips – on Columbia Global Center | Paris website.
Also in association with Columbia University’s year-long celebration of the 100th anniversary of Sergei Prokofiev’s American debut in New York City, there will be a Symposium on New Directionse in Prokofiev Studies on Friday, April 13.
