![]() 14 - we see Shostakovich's efforts over decades to retell Chekhov's haunting and heroic story of a writer struggling for his sanity, only to be sidetracked again and again by the composer's own struggle to survive as an artist amid the ever-changing imperatives of Stalin's Soviet state. Through music - including a complete performance of Shostakovich's String Quartet No. The internationally acclaimed Emerson String Quartet, accompanied by an ensemble of seven actors, will weave the tale of Soviet composer Dmitri Shostakovich's 50-year obsessive quest to create an opera from "The Black Monk" Russian writer Anton Chehov's theatrical chamber masterpiece about love, art, madness and freedom. "Shostakovich and the Black Monk: A Russian Fantasy"ĭetroit Institute of Art's Detroit Film Theatre in the Armenian Room in Manoogian Hall at Wayne State University. Kama Ginkas' film dramatization will be shown at a free screening on Apat 7 p.m. ![]()
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