A special non-credit course for lovers of music!

Five Tuesday evening sessions in
Clarke Recital Hall.

Tuition: $150

To register, click here or call Cecilia Garcia at 305-284-3858.

The voice of the Russian people was heard in imposing liturgical chant for centuries long before the emergence of secular art music serving the courts at St. Petersburg – where European taste was given its amazing Eastern twist. Music by Bortniansky, Fomin, Alyabyev, Dargomizhsky, and Glinka.



Led by the fearless critic Stasov, five men struggle against the demands of their professions – seamanship, chemistry, military engineering, civil service – to create a grand national style of musical expression by drawing deeply from the soul and soil of the long-oppressed people of Russia. Music of Borodin, Cui, Balakirev, Mussorgsky, and Rimsky-Korsakov.



Freed of past restraints, the composers under the last Tsars give boldly daring, uniquely Russian expression to all the forms of music practiced in the rest of Europe and create a vast body of literature which still captivates audiences throughout the world. Music of Tchaikowsky, Glazounov, Arensky, Blumenfeld, Rubinstein, and Scriabin.



Communism influences both the way of life for musicians and the music they compose – yet greatness thrives! Under Stalin, modernism is made to speak to the people through such composers as Prokofiev, Shostakovich, Kabalevsky, and Khachaturian as well as through performers such as Gilels, Richter, and Oistrakh.



Fleeing the Russian Revolution and what followed, artists of every sort hied themselves to Europe and America, creating artistic foment, influencing the young, and challenging critics. The protagonists: Stravinsky, Rachmaninoff, Chaliapin, Auer, Milstein, Heifetz, Piatigorsky, Koussevitsky, Horowitz, and Nureyev.

Experiences designed to broaden one’s knowledge of the impact made everywhere by the musical heritage of Russia.

To register, click here or call Cecilia Garcia at 305-284-3858.