March 2019
Jeremy Eichler on the Babi Yar Symphony
After the Second World War, the Soviet Union suppressed the memory of the Jewish massacre at Babi Yar and attempted to erase the site itself from the landscape. In this program, Jeremy Eichler, Public Scholar at the National Endowment for the Humanities and Classical Music Critic of The Boston Globe, charts both the earliest attempts at forced amnesia as well as the highly fraught creation of Shostakovich’s Thirteenth Symphony, a "musical monument" that broke the official silence. This event is…
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Quorum Boston: Queer Composers and Resistance to Erasure
Lorraine Fitzmaurice and Quinn Gutman, members of the choral group Quorum Boston, will discuss their organization's work to resist and reveal the history of queer erasure in choral music and to bring these composers back into the musical canon. This event is sponsored by the Program for Public Humanities at Tisch College and the Department of Music at Tufts University. Free; no tickets required. Guest parking passes can be purchased at the Tufts University Police Department, 419 Boston Avenue, Medford.
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