Research Catalog

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Additional authors

1. Cronson, Mary Sharp
2. Hillings, Valerie
3. Kisselgoff, Anna
4. Nefedova, Maria
5. Nefedova, Maria
6. Pyshkina, Maria
7. Cherkashina, Marina
8. Dorokhova, Svetlana
9. Kharlamov, Evgeny
10. Korolev, Vladimir
11. Korzin, Mikhail
12. Samsonov, Andreĭ.
13. Shishkina, Irina
14. Sorokina-Subbotina, Svetlana
15. Yukecheva, Olga
16. Stravinsky, Igor, 1882-1971.
17. Dimitri Pokrovsky Singers
18. Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum

Description

1. 1 videodisc (NTSC) (79 min.) : sd., col.; 4 3/4 in.

Summary

1. Anna Kisselgoff moderates a panel discussion with Maria Nefedova, music and artistic director of the Dmitri Pokrovsky Ensemble, and her interpreter, Maria Pyshkina. Nefedova discusses the life of Dimitri Pokrovsky who died in 1996 and discusses Pokrovsky's method of studying folk material. Nefedova also describes the makeup of the ensemble, the use of improvisation in folk music, the diversity of folk music throughout Russia, and the attraction that composers such as Stravinsky have to folk elements as demonstrated in the performance in Part IV of the program. Nefedova introduces the various performances of traditional music and dance from different parts of Russia interspersed with the panel discussion.

Donor/Sponsor

1. Gift of Works & process at the Guggenheim, Mary Sharp Cronson, producer.

Series statement

1. Works & process at the Guggenheim collection ; 282

Uniform title

1. Works and process at the Guggenheim.

Subject

1. Music
2. Folk music > Russia
3. Video
4. Dance
5. Pokrovsky, Dimitri
6. Folk dance music > Russia

Genre/Form

1. Video.
2. Music.
3. Dance.

Contents

1. Performance content: Part 1. Cossacks songs and dances -- Part II. Songs from Western Russia and Sibera -- Part III. A scene from Northern Russia's wedding -- Part IV. Elements of folk theater and Southern Russia's songs / includes music composed by Igor Stravinsky.

Call number

1. *MGZIDVD 5-2925

Event (note)

1. Recorded as part of the Works & process performance series at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, on Dec. 11, 2005.

Funding (note)

1. With support from The Peter Jay Sharp Foundation, digitization and DVD authoring of the Works & process at the Guggenheim video archive was done by StreamingCulture at the Graduate Center of The City University of New York.

Title

1. Faces of Russia [videorecording] : Works & process at the Guggenheim / [performance series producer, Mary Sharp Cronson].

Imprint

1. 2005.

Country of producing entity

1. United States.

Series

1. Works & process at the Guggenheim collection ; 282
2. Works and process at the Guggenheim.

Performer

1. Host, Valerie Hillings ; performers, Dmitri Pokrovsky Ensemble: Marina Cherkashina, Svetlana Dorokhova, Evgeny Kharlamov, Vladimir Korolev, Mikhail Korzin, Maria Nefedova, Andrey Samsonov, Irina Shishkina, Svetlana Sorokina-Subbotina, Olga Yukecheva.

Event

1. Recorded as part of the Works & process performance series at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, on Dec. 11, 2005.

Funding

1. With support from The Peter Jay Sharp Foundation, digitization and DVD authoring of the Works & process at the Guggenheim video archive was done by StreamingCulture at the Graduate Center of The City University of New York.

Added author

1. Cronson, Mary Sharp. Producer
2. Hillings, Valerie. Host
3. Kisselgoff, Anna. Interviewer
4. Nefedova, Maria. Interviewee
5. Nefedova, Maria, dancer.
6. Pyshkina, Maria. Speaker
7. Cherkashina, Marina. Performer
8. Dorokhova, Svetlana. Performer
9. Kharlamov, Evgeny. Performer
10. Korolev, Vladimir. Performer
11. Korzin, Mikhail. Performer
12. Samsonov, Andreĭ. Performer
13. Shishkina, Irina. Performer
14. Sorokina-Subbotina, Svetlana. Performer
15. Yukecheva, Olga. Performer
16. Stravinsky, Igor, 1882-1971. Pribaoutki.
17. Dimitri Pokrovsky Singers.
18. Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum.

Research call number

1. *MGZIDVD 5-2925