Messages In Time – a new ballet 

Innovative Music Programs is collaborating with Choreographer Alison Cook Beatty in creating Messages In Time, a new ballet with music from Dmitri Shostakovich’s Preludes, Op 34.  The ballet’s story reveals some of the “secret messages” long believed to be embedded in Shostakovich’s music. The work is musically framed by three passionate Preludes from Russian-American composer Lera Auerbach’s Op 46. Shostakovich and Auerbach’s Preludes are intense musical miniatures of roughly one to two minutes duration.  With brevity they express an astonishing emotional depth and variety of sound. This new work is generously commissioned by Charles and Deborah Adelman. 

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A multi-disciplinary performance work in which Art itself tells the story, a story that describes Artists’ pursuit of personal, social, and political freedom.  The work features the life and work of Russian/American Artist Grisha Bruskin and Irish/American Painter Timothy Hawkesworth and is set amidst the sweeping social chronicle of the 1950‘s, 60’s and 70’s.