Event overview
The Arrest and Imprisonment of Lina Prokofiev
The Centre for Russian Music presents Simon Morrison, giving a talk on the arrest and imprisonment of Lina Prokofiev.
This talk, based on documents from the Russian State Archive of Literature and Art, the Russian State Archive of Social-Political History, and the Prokofiev Estate in Paris, describes how and why Prokofiev's wife Lina was arrested in 1948, the specific nature of her incarceration in the Gulag, and her release in 1956.
Simon Morrison is Professor of Music at Princeton University, specializing in Russian and Soviet music, French neoclassicism, and ballet. The President of the Prokofiev Foundation, he is the author of 'The People's Artist: Prokofiev's Soviet Years', and a forthcoming biography of Lina Prokofiev. Morrison is also researching a book on Shostakovich with support from a Guggenheim Fellowship.
As part of Graduate Forum, refreshments, including wine, will normally be served afterwards. This will take place in the Senior Common Room when the main event has been in the Small Hall Cinema on Tuesdays.
Open to all, not just graduates!
Dates & times
| Date | Time | Add to calendar |
|---|---|---|
| 24 Apr 2012 | 5:00pm - 7:00pm |
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