The Black Monk is coming to Detroit
Will Irvine as The Black Monk and Patrick O' Kane as Chekhov in 16 Possible Glimpses by Marina Carr, directed by Wayne Jordan, Peacock Theatre, 2011. Photo: Ros Kavanagh.
"The Black Monk"
Kama Ginkas' film dramatization will be shown at a free screening on April 20, 2017 at 7 p.m. in the Armenian Room in Manoogian Hall at Wayne State University.
"Shostakovich and the Black Monk: A Russian Fantasy"
Detroit Institute of Art's Detroit Film Theatre
Saturday, June 17, 2017
The internationally acclaimed Emerson String Quartet, accompanied by an ensemble of seven actors, will weave the tale of Soviet composer Dmitri Shostakovich's 50-year obsessive quest to create an opera from "The Black Monk" Russian writer Anton Chehov's theatrical chamber masterpiece about love, art, madness and freedom. Through music -- including a complete performance of Shostakovich's String Quartet No. 14 -- we see Shostakovich's efforts over decades to retell Chekhov's haunting and heroic story of a writer struggling for his sanity, only to be sidetracked again and again by the composer's own struggle to survive as an artist amid the ever-changing imperatives of Stalin's Soviet state.
"Shostakovich and The Black Monk: A Russian Fantasy" is presented in cooperation with Wayne State University and the Detroit Institute of Arts with support from the Maxine and Stuart Frankel Foundation. Support for activities at Wayne State University is provided by the Charles H. Gershenson Trust, Maurice S. Binkow, Trustee. The appearance of the Emerson String Quartet is supported by Linda and Maurice Binkow.
The Global Crossroads Grant Competition and the performance of "Shostakovich and the Black Monk: A Russian Fantasy" are part of the Black Monk Festival, which is organized by the Great Lakes Chamber Music Festival and The WSU Russian Program. The festival has been made possible by generous support from Gershenson Trust and Wayne State University's International Programs, Honors College, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, College of Fine, Performing, and Communication Arts, Office of the Vice President for Research, the Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program (UROP), Global Studies Program, and Humanities Center.
Find the short story "The Black Monk" through Wayne State's Libraries
About Love and Other Stories by Call Number: [Electronic Book]ISBN: 9780191560620Publication Date: 2004, Oxford, New York : Oxford University PressBrowse down the Table of Contents of this e-book, and click on the 13th entry to to go directly to "The Black Monk."
The Oxford Chekhov by Call Number: PK Stacks: PG 3456 .A1 1965 v.7Publication Date: 1964. London, New York : Oxford University PressThe Black Monk can be found in Volume 7.Anthology of Russian literature from the earliest period to the present time by
Call Number: Purdy-Kresge Stacks: PG 3213 W5 1967Publication Date: 1967, New York : B. Blom (Reprint of the 1902 edition)."The Black Monk" appears in the second part (or volume 2) of this anthology.
Longer Stories from the Last Decade by Call Number: Undergraduate & Purdy-KResge Stacks: PG 3456 .A13 G38 2000ISBN: 0679606637Publication Date: 2000, New York : Modern Library.Eleven stories depicting the greed, corruption, and other problems assailing Russian society in the author's later years. "The Black Monk" is the 5th story in this book.
The stories of Anton Tchekov by Call Number: Purdy-Kresge Stacks: PG 3456 .A15Publication Date: 1932, New York : The Modern Library"The Black Monk" is the tenth story in this volume.
About "The Black Monk"
Critical Essays on Anton Chekov by Call Number: Purdy-Kresge Stacks: PG 3458 .Z8 C75 1989ISBN: 0816188432Publication Date: 1989, Boston, Mass. : G.K. Hall."Vestiges of romantic gardens and folklore devils in Chekhov's "Verochka," "The kiss," and "The black monk" by Joseph L. Conrad is one of the chapters in the volume.
Structure, Style, and Interpretation in the Russian Short Story by Call Number: Purdy-Kresge Stacks: PG3097 .O85 1982ISBN: 0300027303Publication Date: 1982, New Haven : Yale University Press.The levels of analysis (narrative structure, point of view, fable, plot, character, and setting), although common to much literary criticism, are re-examined and re-integrated in the light of the theoretical work of the Russian Formalists and critics of the Prague School and some important trends in recent structuralist criticism. L. Michael O'Toole was professor of communication studies, Murdoch University, Western Australia.
Intersections and Transpositions: Russian Music, Literature, and Society by Call Number: Purdy-Kresge Stacks: ML 3849 .I6 1998ISBN: 0810115808Publication Date: 1998, Evanston, Ill. : Northwestern University PressThe essay "Sonata form in Chekhov's "The black monk" by Rosamund Bartlett is included in this volume.
The Black Monk [Electronic Text]
- The Black Monk and Other Stories byCall Number: [electronic book]Publication Date: 1916, New York : Frederick A. Stokes.Freely available through Hathitrust.org.
NOTE: To search inside this book, click on the title and the Hathitrust site itself will present you with a search box in the upper right corner. You can also select "View the Full Catalog Record" on the left, to obtain a suggested (machine-generated) citation.
Черный монахъ на русском языке
The short story "Черный монахъ" is the third story in this anthology. Click on the colorful book cover and Jump to p. 98.
- Povi͡esti i razskazy byCall Number: Googe-digitized through Hathitrust.orgPublication Date: 1894, Moskva : Tip. Vysochaĭshe utverzhd. T-va I.D. Sytina.
Shostokovich: Criticism and Interpretation
Music for Silenced Voices: Shostakovich and his fifteen quartets by Call Number: [Electronic Book]. Print at: PK Stacks: ML 410 .S53 L47 2011ISBN: 9780300169331Publication Date: New Haven : Yale University Press, 2012.Music for Silenced Voices looks at Shostakovich through the back door, as it were, of his fifteen quartets, the works which his widow characterized as a "diary, the story of his soul." The silences and the voices were of many kinds, including the political silencing of adventurous writers, artists, and musicians during the Stalin era; the lost voices of Shostakovich's operas (a form he abandoned just before turning to string quartets); and the death-silenced voices of his close friends, to whom he dedicated many of these chamber works. This fascinating narrative leads the reader through the personal, political, and professional events that shaped Shostakovich's life. Weaving together interviews with the composer's friends, family, and colleagues, as well as conversations with present-day musicians who have played the quartets, Lesser sheds new light on the man and the musician. One of the very few books about Shostakovich that is aimed at a general rather than an academic audience,
Contemplating Shostakovich: Life, Music and Film by Call Number: [Electronic Book]ISBN: 9781409439370Publication Date: Burlington, VT : Ashgate, 2012.This invaluable collection of essays offers remarkable new insight, in both depth and range, into the nature of Shostakovich's working circumstances and of his response to them.
Dmitri Shostakovich: A Life in Film by Call Number: [Electronic Book]; Print at: PK Stacks: ML 410 .S53 R5 2005ISBN: 1850434840Publication Date: London, New York : I.B. Tauris, 2005.Between 1929 and 1970, Dmitri Shostakovich wrote almost 40 film scores of Soviet films, from Stalinist cult epics to classical literary adaptations. His long and distinguished cinema career has hitherto been overlooked. Combining analysis and anecdote, John Riley provides this first account to examine the scores and their contexts in the films for which they were written, the ways in which contemporary events shaped both films and scores, and how he thought about, developed and applied his film music.
Chekhov: Criticism & Interpretation
Adapting Chekhov: The text and its mutations by Call Number: [Electronic Book]ISBN: 9780415509695Publication Date: New York : Routledge, 2012.This book presents a wide geographical landscape of Chekhovian influences in drama. This volume investigates the original and transformative knowledge that the story of Chekhov's drama in mutations offers to scholars of drama and performance, to students of modern literatures and cultures, and to theatre practitioners worldwide.
Anton Chekhov Through the Eyes of Russian Thinkers: Vasilii Rozanov, Dmitrii Merezhkovskii and Lev Shestov by Call Number: [Electronic Book]ISBN: 9781843318415Publication Date: New York : Anthem Press, 2010.The collection is comprised of twelve scholarly essays written by leading Chekhov specialists from around the world, each analyzing an interpretation of Chekhov by one of three Russian thinkers of the Silver Age of Russian culture - Rozanov, Merezhkovskii and Shestov. It therefore focuses specifically on the complex connections between Chekhov's legacy and the Russian culture of that period.
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