Complimentary
Shuttle Service To All
Major Venues
New York insti-
tution when he
was admitted
at age 7.
Tickets to
the DSO con-
certs are $15-
Marvin Hamlisch
$66 (a limited
number of box seats are available at
$61-$99). (313) 576-5111 dr www.
detroitsymphony.corn.
In addition to his appearances with
the DSO, Hamlisch will be a guest
of the DSO Volunteer Council at the
Celebrity Luncheon at the Townsend
Hotel in Birmingham noon Friday,
March 24. He will speak and perform
at this fundraiser to benefit the DSO's
education and outreach programs.
Tickets begin at $75. (313) 576 5 1 54.
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Shostakovich
Salute
Dmitri Shostakovich (1906-1975)
— the first post-revolutionary Soviet
composer to make an international
reputation — defied political expecta-
tions. Although he wrote the "patri-
otic" public works expected of him, he
freely composed more introspective
and dark-colored music along the
way, including his Symphony No. 13,
which set to music a poem written
by Russian poet Yegeny Yevtushenko
about the 1941 massacre of the Jews
of Kiev and its environs who were
ordered.to undress, beaten if they
resisted and then shot at the edge of
the Babi-Yar Gorge. He also compiled
a song-cycle for three singers and
piano whose texts were taken from
a collection of Russian translations
of Jewish lyrics, mostly originally in
Yiddish. The melodies he created were
closely related to the style of klezmer
music Shostakovich knew and loved.
The University Musical Society
honors the centenary of Shostakovich's
birth with a two-part series of perfor-
mances featuring 11 of the composer's
15 symphonies, with five concerts by
the Kirov Orchestra under conductor
Valery Gergiev at Hill Auditorium in
Ann Arbor.
The Russian Ensemble, joined by
the UMS Choral Union, will perform
Shostakovich Symphonies 1, 2 and 10
8 p.m. Friday, March 17, followed by
Symphonies 7 and 9 7:30 p.m. Sunday,
March 19. Tickets are $10-$75.
A free Shostakovich symposium
takes place 1-6 p.m. Saturday, March
18, at Rackham Amphitheatre, 4th
Floor, 915 E. Washington, in Ann
Arbor. Presenters include New Yorker
music critic Alex
Ross, U-M pro-
fessor of history
William Rosenberg
and U-M profes-
sor of political
science William
Zimmerman.
As part of the
symposium, the
documentary The
War Symphonies:
Dmitri Shostakovich
Shostakovich
Against Stalin (1997)
will be shown at
4:30 p.m.
(Note: The second installment of
the Shostakovich Centennial Festival,
including the performance of the corn-
poser's "Babi-Yar" symphony, will be
held Friday-Sunday, Oct. 20-22, 2006.)
Information and tickets: (734) 764-
2538 or www.ums.org. ❑
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