Visit: Leonid Pasternak: A Family Connection
16 October 2022
Park Town, 3.30-4.30pm and 4.30-5.30pm
Tickets £5-£15: Book tickets here for 3.30-4.30pm and here for 4.30-5.30pm.
The artist Leonid Pasternak, a leading Russian impressionist and the father of writer Boris Pasternak, was born in Odessa, travelled extensively in Europe, and died in 1945 in Oxford. Numerous paintings and sketches of his close friend Leo Tolstoy, as well as Rachmaninov and the singer Feodor Chaliapin, are still in the family home, opened for an exclusive visit today.
NB: as this is a private home, the address will be sent to ticket holders closer to the time. Visits will last one hour.
For full details please visit the festival website
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This event is part of the 21st Oxford Lieder Festival, Friendship in Song: An Intimate Art. The series invites audiences to explore song as an art form that grew up among friends, often at special and sociable gatherings, and inspired many composers’ most personal and profound works. For more details and to view the full programme of events in the series please visit the Festival website.
