CURS is welcoming Boris Grebenschikov in Cambridge, 24 May

BG is not only:

• The legend of Russian rock, the author of stinging songs and poetry;
• The philosopher and sage giving us the intelligible advices what are we living for;
• The eminent representative of Russian Intelligentsia diluted with the hippie outlook.

BG is:

• OUR EVERYTHING

• WHEN: Thursday, 24 May, 5:30 pm
• WHERE: Umney Theatre, Robinson College

The programme of the evening is a total secret.

• HOW MUCH: free for CURS members, 2 pounds for all guests

Reed more about Boris Grebenshikov

The event link

Picking up your tickets

This announcement concerns those only who pre-ordered the vouchers via official channel (that is, from Sri Chinmoy Center).

As you know, the better seats for the concert are promised for the CURS members; and if you plan to make an exchange of the vouchers into tickets in the last minute before the concert you risk to get the worst seats and either not to get tickets at all.

CURS offers you the following option: We shall make an exchange of your vouchers into tickets taking the best possible seats. You have to trust us your vouchers in order to make this possible; of course we guarantee the maximum correctness and safeness in performing this task.

How to collect your ticket: We shall be around from 6 until 7 pm before the concert. Please mind that coming early is essential if you are expecting to get a good ticket!

Here are the directions to Royal Albert Hall.

Boris Grebenshikov’s concert in London, 21 May

Singer, composer and poet Boris Grebenshikov is one of the “founding fathers” of Russian rock. He has produced more than 500 songs and 50 albums since the formation of his legendary band Aquarium in 1972. The band’s broad style ranges from reggae to blues, punk to jazz, a “heavy” electrical sound to translucent acoustics and includes a whole slew of various ethnic and folklore influences – from Celtic to Asian.

• WHEN: 21 May, Monday, 7:30
• WHERE: Royal Albert Hall, London

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Russian Graduate Seminar “Aesthetics of Death in the Russian Culture of the Silver Age”, 15 May

The Russian Graduate Seminar will be opened with a lecture “Aesthetics of Death in the Russian Culture of the Silver Age” in English by Vladimir Orlov (PhD Student in Musicology, University of Cambridge).

The lecture is devoted to the various attitudes that dominated amongst many eminent representatives of Russian intelligentsia in regards to the subject of death, during the time of the famous Russian Renaissance, the Silver Age. The strong belief in the positive value of nihil approximated different ideological groups of Russian pre-revolutionary artists and philosophers which desired the grandiouse devastation that really happened soon after. The talk is intended for everyone interested in Russia, Russian culture and its dramatical and sublime path.

• WHEN: 15 May, Tuesday, 5:15 pm
• WHERE: Faculty of Modern and Medieval Languages, Graduate Suite, Raised Faculty Building, [Sidgwick Avenue CB3 9DA] top floor

CamRuSS talk “What’s happened to that liberal Soviet poet Andrei Voznesensky”, 14 May

or “Poet and Postgrad in the 60s Moscow”. A talk (in Russian) by Michael Pushkin, with poetry readings. Followed by juice, wine and nibbles.

• WNEN: Monday, 14th May, 7pm for 7:30pm
• WHERE: Walter Graves Lecture Theatre, Fitzwilliam College, Storey’s Way, Cambridge CB3 0DG
• PRICE: CamRuSS members free, others 2 pounds (1 pound concessions)

Andrei Voznesensky, born in 1933, was one of the archetypal “men of the 60s”. A protege of Pasternak, he was independent-minded rather than an outright dissident, but had regular skirmishes with the authorities, including Khrushchev’s notorious attack on him in the Kremlin in 1963. His poetry, often accused of verbal pyrotechnics, is densely metaphorical, contrasting ancient and modern, spiritual and material, natural and technological.

About the speaker:

• Michael Pushkin has taught Russian language, literature and history at the University of Birmingham since 1968, and was the Head of the Russian Department for many years. He has published articles on the 19th-century Russian intelligentsia and on the modern poet Andrei Voznesensky, whom he has known personally since the early 60s, and interviewed a number of times, in Moscow and in London.