Our next performance, 1/19/12
November 29, 2011
Zimnaia Soloveika (Winter’s Nightingale)
On 1/19/12, Silver Swan will present a program examining the music and life of Aleksandra Feodorovna Romanova, the wife of Nicholas II and the last Empress of Russia.
As a young German countess, Alix of Hesse played, sang and collected music from all over Europe. This granddaughter of Queen Victoria became an accomplished amateur musician, and the music she collected ended up in the Imperial Library of the Romanov family.
Many art songs from Russia, France, England and Italy made their way into her collection, and they give insight into the emotional life and development of this aristocratic and strong-willed young woman. She continued to collect or receive gifts of sheet music up until shortly before she was exiled with her husband following the Russian Revolution in November, 1917.
Silver Swan will present a selection from the Russian Imperial Collection in this concert charting the life of this extraordinary figure in history.
Thursday evening, January 19, 2012 (Kreshchensky Moroze) at 7:30 p.m.; Macalester Plymouth Church, 1658 Lincoln Ave., St. Paul; tickets $17.50/$14.00
