Course No. 756 (8 lectures, 45 minutes/lecture) Taught by Robert Greenberg San Francisco Performances Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley 1. Introduction and Childhood 2. Mahler the Conductor 3. Early Songs and Symphony No. 1 4. The Wunderhorn Symphonies 5. Alma and Vienna 6. Family Life and Symphony No. 5 7. Symphony No. 6, and Das Lied von der Erde 8. Das Lied, Final Symphonies, and the End
Russia has a rich, huge, unwieldy cultural tradition. How to engage it? This pathbreaking classroom reader was designed to respond to that challenge. The literary works selected for inclusion in this anthology introduce the core cultural and historical themes of Russian civilization. Each text has resonance throughout the arts - in Rublev's icons, Meyerhold's theater, Mousorgsky's operas, Prokofiev's symphonies, Fokine's choreography, and Kandinsky's paintings.
