Monday, April 20 Concert

Maksim Velichkin, Boris Andrianov, Serge Oskotsky. March concert

Andrew Shapiro. Selections from "Numbers, Colors and People"

Andrew Shapiro - piano

Barbara Strozzi. Cantata "L'eraclito amoroso"

Charlene Chi - mezzo soprano

Jason Yoshida - theorbo

F. Schubert. Sonata a moll D.537

Allegro ma non troppo

Allegretto quasi andantino

Allegro vivace

Pavel Petrov - piano

Oscar Navarro. Piano Trio "Things of Destiny"

Sergio Gamez - violin

Joo Lee - cello

Regulo Martinez - piano

P.Tchaikovsky. Melody.

Valse-Scherzo

Roberto Cani - violin

Yana Reznik - piano

intermission

C.Saint-Saens. Piano Trio #2 e moll

Allegro non troppo

Allegretto

Andante con moto

Grazioso poco allegro

Allegro non troppo

Maksim Velichkin - cello

Yana Reznik - piano

Timothy Braun - violin

A.Arensky. Piano Trio in D minor Op.32

Allegro moderato

Scherzo

Elegia

Finale

Eduardo Delgado - piano

David Chernyavsky - violin

Serge Oskotsky - cello

*****

CLASSICAL UNDERGROUND SHOWCASE

focusing on a classical art form of

serious contemporary representational art

painter LEONID STEELE

It is our special privilege to showcase a master whose place in art history is already well-secured. Recognized for the multi-figure works, in Russian "kartina", Leonid Steele is "a living legacy to the Art of the Soviet Union" and an important part of the generation that preserved for us and passed alone the principles and traditions of venerable Russian Realist School.

Known at the time as "Socialist Realism" or "Sotsrealism," the movement has given its main attention to a common man on an unprecedented before and probably after scale. The kind, compassionate and understanding look at the everyday man/woman of society, with all his and her inner world depicted on the canvases of the best artists struck the cord with their contemporaries. The empathy towards the common man is Sotsrealism's main contribution to the World history of Art.

The Art in the Soviet Union through its capacity to communicate basic human emotions to common people helped to preserve people's integrity as individuals in midst of largely inhuman society. It became the main vehicle of people's internal freedom and now stands as a testimony to the insuppressible and self-preserving powers of human spirit.