Sasha Cooke, Eugenia Zukerman, Maria Raducanu, et al. Set for Wall to Wall Behind the Wall at Symphony Space

Symphony Space has that its annual musical marathon will be Wall to Wall Behind the Wall, a twelve-hour celebration of Music from the Soviet era to be held on May 15 from 11am to 11pm. Laura Kaminsky will curate the program that will include world and U.S. premieres along with rare works by world-renowned and little-known composers.

Among those scheduled to appear is Metropolitan Opera star Sasha Cooke who is performing in the U.S. premiere of Dmitri Shostakovitch’s Front Ways Songs, a set of opera arias, lieder and Soviet propaganda songs meant to be performed for soldiers on the front lines dating from 1941. Other artists scheduled to perform are pianist Gilbert Kalish and flutist Eugenia Zukerman, the St. Petersburg Chamber Philharmonic (in their U.S. debut), Silesian String Quartet, Armenian pianist-composer Artur Avanesov, and Romanian jazz artist Maria Raducanu.

Additionally young composers who came of age during the Soviet era will be in attendance to see their works featured including, in addition to Avanesov, Natalya Medvedoskaya and Timofey Buzina, whose Rocking Shadows Overture — a Symphony Space commission — will be premiered by the St. Petersburg Chamber Philharmonic joining forces with New York’s Iktus Percussion Quartet.

For further information, visit: www.symphonyspace.org.