Program | Schedule

Feb25
Time 7:00pm
Location
Distler Auditorium, Tufts University

Russian Cultural Night

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There will be a performance of Ukrainian folk songs, led by Lysander Jaffe; a small Tufts choir performance of "Subrali, Sa Se Subrali" (Bulgarian), "Ghirs ars da martal" (Georgian), and "Iz strany, strany dalyokoi" (Russian) led by Emma Daniels; and a violin and piano presentation on the development of professional Russian music led by Vera Rubin on violin and Yevgenia Semeina on piano. The evening also will feature the photography of Eric Bouvet from his work in Ukraine. Bouvet has received five World Press Awards, as well as two Visa d’Or, the gold medal of 15th anniversary of the photography, the Bayeux-Calvados Award for War Correspondents, the Public award from Bayeux-Calvados, the Front Line Club award and the Paris-Match Award.

There will be a performance of Ukrainian folk songs, led by Lysander Jaffe; a small Tufts choir performance of "Subrali, Sa Se Subrali" (Bulgarian), "Ghirs ars da martal" (Georgian), and "Iz strany, strany dalyokoi" (Russian) led by Emma Daniels; and a violin and piano presentation on the development of professional Russian music led by Vera Rubin on violin and Yevgenia Semeina on piano.

The evening also will feature the photography of Eric Bouvet from his work in Ukraine.  Bouvet has received five World Press Awards, as well as two Visa d’Or, the gold medal of 15th anniversary of the photography, the Bayeux-Calvados Award for War Correspondents, the Public award from Bayeux-Calvados, the Front Line Club award and the Paris-Match Award.

Laurence Senelick, Fletcher Professor of Oratory and Director of Graduate Studies in Drama in the Department of Drama and Dance at Tufts will present on the plight of theatre in Vladimir Putin’s Russia.