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“Prokofiev’s Alexander Nevsky and Its Afterlives”: U-M Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies
MSU musicology professor Kevin Bartig discusses Prokofiev’s score (see 22 Saturday UMS listing) to the 1938 Sergei Eisenstein film that casts a 13th-century Russian victory over invading Teutonic knights as an allegory of contemporary Soviet strength in the face of Nazi warmongering. Noon–1:20 p.m., 555 Weiser Hall, 500 Church. Free. (734) 764–0351.
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