"Different Trains" Steve Reich will be performed in St. Petersburg

On April 8, on the new stage of the Alexandrinsky Theater at a lecture-concert “Other trains. Music and memory architecture ”performed by the Ensemble ensemble will sound the work“ Different Trans ”by the American Minimalist Steve Reich.

Evening "Other trains. Music and architecture of memory ”is included in the program“ New Music on the New Scene ”-a series of lectures, film screenings and concerts dedicated to the most important modern composers, which the new scene organizes together with the cultural and educational project“ Eshkolot ”.

According to the Eshkolota website, the evening dedicated to the Day of the Disaster (Yom Ha-shu) will open the lecture of art critic Vadim Bass “How Architecture says what it is impossible to talk about. The commemoration of the 20th century tragedies: from wartime monuments to the contest at the blockade museum. ”

Then the concert of the Ensemble modern music ensemble will be held. Mikhail Krutik (violin), Maria Grigoryeva (violin), Dmitry Chernyshenko (Alt) and Elena Grigoryeva (cello) will perform Diffferent Trains Steve Reich - an essay for a string quartet, in which tape recordings of people who survived the Second World War and catastrophe are used as one of the “parties”. The composition was first performed by the Kronos Quartet ensemble and received the Grammy Award in 1989.

The lecture start at 18:00, the entrance is free by preliminary registration .

The concert start at 19:30, the entrance to tickets (350 rubles), which can be bought at the cash desk of the Alexandrinsky Theater or online .