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The Princeton University Chamber Choir performs Poulenc's extraordinary cantata Figure humaine, a work written during the Nazi occupation of France, paired with Mary Lou Williams' choral…
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April 2nd, 2022 Speaker
Princeton University Chamber Choir, Gabriel Crouch, Cyrus Chestnut Department
Department of Music Location
Richardson Auditorium
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“We always imagine Russian culture in the form of a diptych, in which one wing is Petersburg and the other Moscow,” the critic Abram Efros wrote in 1921. “In the field of Russian…
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Catherine the Great’s passion for the arts served a vital role in her efforts to position herself as a paragon of the Enlightenment. With avaricious focus she snaffled celebrated art…
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March 18th, 2021 Department
PIIRS
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Catherine the Great founded the now internationally-renowned drawings collection of the Hermitage Museum with the purchase in 1768 of the cabinet of Count Charles Cobenzl (Brussels). At a time when…
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September 24th, 2020 Department
PIIRS
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The Yusupovs are renowned for their patronage and significant art collection established by Prince Nikolai Borisovich (1750-1831). Largely studied since the 19th century and more recently, this…
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October 22nd, 2020 Department
PIIRS
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