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Emerson Quartet in The Black Monk

at Staller Center for the Arts | Fri Apr 12

Location

Staller Center for the Arts

Stony Brook University
100 Nicholls Road
Stony Brook, NY 11794
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Tel: (631) 632-ARTS

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Date & Time

08:00 PM
Fri, Apr 12, 2019
Cost:    $48
Description

"“Shostakovich and The Black Monk: A Russian Fantasy” comes from the minds of acclaimed theatrical director, James Glossman, and Emerson String Quartet member, Philip Setzer.

In a bold intersection of chamber music and theater starring the actor David Strathairn as Dmitri Shostakovich, witness the trials and challenges of Shostakovich’s obsessive quest to create an opera based on Anton Chekov’s mystical tale: The Black Monk.

The Emerson String Quartet and the cast of actors tell this story through the eyes of Shostakovich himself. The tragedy that unfolds reveals that with the stoke of a pen, the Soviet regime undermined the career of one of the most prominent composers of the 20th century, Dmitri Shostakovich."

Staller Center for the Arts