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They plan to perform Beethoven’s Sonata No. 9 in A Major, the so-called “Kreutzer Sonata,” a notoriously tricky piece. One character observes that its piano-violin interplay is like a fervid ...
to-day rendered an elaborate decision holding that Tolstoi's "Kreutzer Sonata" is not an obscene book. Charles Arentzen and other book peddlers were arrested at the instance of the Law and Order ...
Nothing entertains like a great love story with a murderous ending, and that's what you get in "The Kreutzer Sonata" at Renaissance Theaterworks. The one man play starring James Pickering is a ...
The Kreutzer Sonata by Leo Tolstoy is a novella written in 1889. At times this novella seemed like a rant that goes on page after page, but taken as a whole I can certainly see the genius behind it.
Chicago four-piece the Kreutzer Sonata play raw hardcore in clipped, stentorian bursts so that each song exposes new gristle. On the new Cradle to the Grave (No Time/Don’t Panic), hammering ...
As host and violinist Scott Yoo and pianist Anna Polonsky attempt to record Beethoven’s “Kreutzer” Sonata, the increasingly irritated composer reminisces about his own history with the piece.
He is the director of all three of the plays in Soulpepper’s current repertoire: the superb Glass Menagerie, the perennially successful Billy Bishop Goes to War, and now The Kreutzer Sonata ...
The Kreutzer Sonata, published in 1889, doesn’t fit the familiar image of Tolstoy. It is an unsettling vision of one man’s misgivings about sex, and the novella’s attack on the very idea of ...
Leo Tolstoy's story of compulsive jealousy set to the disturbing chords of Ludwig Van Beethoven's "The Kreutzer Sonata" is given a lurid screen treatment by British director Bernard Rose.