Lecture on Swiss composer Klaus Huber (1924–2017) and his opera Schwarzerde (2001, Basel). Speaker: Levon Hakobyan, Doctor of Arts, Head of the Music Theory Department at the State Institute for Art Studies (Moscow). Huber's body of work can be seen as an ecumenical, social, and cosmopolitan utopia rooted in the thought of thinkers, mystics, and poets across eras and traditions, expressed through a strictly avant-garde, dissonant musical language. From 1989 onward, Osip Mandelstam's prose, poetry, and biography became central to his work, culminating in Schwarzerde. Drawing on Mandelstam's Journey to Armenia, Huber depicts Armenia as an embodiment of this utopian world, with its spirit voiced by a countertenor singing passages quoted by Mandelstam from Pavstos Buzand's History of Armenia in Armenian. Free admission. Questions: 011 570 570