Pre Concert Talk by cultural historian Rosamund Bartlett

5:30pm, Fri, 18 Jun 2027

Type of event:	Workshop
Start time:	5:30pm
External website related to this event:	buytickets.at/roselandmusicsociety
Venue:	Gerrans Parish Memorial Hall, Gerrans Hill, Portscatho, Cornwall TR2 5EE
	See map below
Ticket pricing/options:	Free to All
Tickets:	phone 01209 312505 10 - 4 Mon- Friday only
Description:	Rosamund Bartlett is a writer, translator and lecturer. A cultural historian with a background in Russian literature, music and art, her books include Wagner and Russia and Tolstoy: A Russian Life. She has also written a biography of Chekhov, and published translations of his short stories and letters. Her new translation of Anna Karenina was published in 2014. Her current interests focus on Russian and European Modernism, opera, and the intersection between politics, history and the arts. She has lectured on these and other topics, including Tchaikovsky, Chekhov and Levitan, Matisse in Moscow, Kandinsky and The Blue Rider, and Modernist women artists, both in the UK and abroad. She has also appeared in the BBC Radio 3 Proms coverage in recent years as a commentator on music. Rosamund gave an inspiring pre-concert talk for the Society at the Brodsky Quartet's concert of Shostakovich Quartets in 2024 and returns to talk about. She will be talking beofre each of the three performances the Davidoff Trio will be giving in Cornwall - introducing the Russian works and how they fit into the programmes offered by the Davidoff Trio