Concerto Competition
Winner

1945: Two Russian Views  Sunday, February 4, 2007  3 P.M. Pre-concert lecture at 2 P.M.  Notre Dame de Namur University Theatre 1540 Ralston Avenue, Belmont Stravinsky: Symphony in Three Movements  Shostakovich: Symphony No. 9  Weill: Selected songs:   "What Good Would the Moon Be?" (from Street Scene)   "Lost in the Stars" (from Lost in the Stars)   "Saga of Jenny" (from Lady in the Dark)   with Julia Hosack, Winner of the Notre Dame de Namur Concerto Competition The cataclysm of war touched the two Russian composers on this program in very different ways. Expatriate Stravinsky's 1945 symphony is based on themes he first wrote for American film scores, and echoes their explosive, patriotic war footage. Shostakovich's symphony, written in Russia in the same year, is a bitter, sarcastic response to the cruel excesses and tyranny of Josef Stalin, and the exact opposite of what was expected of a "Ninth." Julia Hosack

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