The Lidia Productions orchestra on November 2, 2008 was composed of musicians from the Twin Cities Area. Click on any linked name to find out more information about the musician.
 Kikimora |
 Baba Yaga |
A comment from Marina Lantseva, who played both of the characters pictured above.
"Constantin Stanislavski, the great Russian theater director and theoretician believed that an actor needed to take his or her own personality onto the stage when they began to play a character. I searched inside myself in order to find Baba Yaga and Kikimora characteristic features ... And... I have found them right away! What a shock! I thought I was such a nice person!"
Video Clips -Click here
to listen to 13 different video clips of the concert
Review from the North Star - a Russian newspaper in the Twin Cities -Translated from Russian
Comments in Russian | Comments in English
Repertoire:
(Linked program notes are in .pdf files in English and Russian)
- Tchaikovsky. Trepak from Nutcracker and A Song of a Gypsy Girl (Lynne Gardow)
- Glinka. March from Ruslan and Liudmila
- Rimsky-Korsakov. The Filght of the Bumblebee
- Liadov.Kikimora and Two Movements from 8 Russian songs
- Prokofiev. March from The Love for Three Oranges and Menuet from Summer Night Suite
- Shostakovich. Polka (Bureaucrat) from the ballet Bolt
- Schnittke. Bureacrat from Gogol Suite
- Rachmaninoff. Chanson Georgienne (Lynne Gardow, mezzo-soprano)
- Mussorgsky. Hut on Chicken Legs from the Pictures at an Exhibition
- Khachaturian. - Waltz from Masquerade
Marina Liadova, Music Director
Lynne Gardow, Mezzo Soprano
Dr. Dimitri Shapovalov, Author of Program Notes
Deborah Clapp, Orchestra Manager
Masha Petrenko, Emcee
Shana Eisenberg, Emcee