libretto by Michael Shemjakin, 2005, premiere May 14, 2005, Mariinsky Theatre Selected filmography The Republic of ShKID (1966) The Mysterious Wall (1967) Summer Impressions of Planet Z (1986) Tomorrow Was the War (1987) References Further reading Grove Music Online, Slonimsky, Sergey Mikhaylovich, article by Larisa Danko. G. Abramovsky: ‘Simfoniya Sergeya Slonimskogo’, Sovetskaya simfon iya za 50 let, ed. G. Tigranov (Leningrad, 1967), 336–43 D. Pabinovich and others: ‘Na obsuzhdenii “Virinei” S. Slonimskogo’ [In discussion of Slonimsky’s ‘Vireniya’], SovM (1968), no.4, pp. 31–46 [incl. contribution by Slonimsky, 43–4] V. Smirnov: ‘“Virineya” S. Slonimskogo’, Voprosï teorii i ėstetiki muzïki, ed. L. Raaben, xi (Leningrad, 1972), 50–67 A. Stratiyevsky: ‘Kantata S. Slonimskogo “Golos iz khora”’, Blok i muzïka, ed. M.A. Elik (Leningrad and Moscow, 1972), 229–45 L. Rappoport: ‘Nekotorïye stilevïye osobennosti muzïki S. Slonimskogo i yego baleta “Ikar”’ [Certain particular stylistic features of the music of Slonimsky and of his ballet ‘Icarus’], Muzïka i zhizn′, ii (1973), 80–97 Ye. Ruch′yevskaya: ‘O metodakh pretvoreniya i vïrazitel′nom znachenii rechevoy intonatsii, na primere tvorchestva S. Slonimskogo’ [On the methods of realization and the expressive significance of speech intonation, with examples from the work of Slonimsky], Poėziya i muzïka, ed. V. Frumkin (Moscow, 1973), 137–85 A. Milka: Sergey Slonimsky, monograficheskiy ocherk [Slonimsky, a monographic sketch] (Leningrad and Moscow, 1976) A. Klimovitsky: ‘Opernoye tvorchestvo Sergeya Slonimskogo’ [The operatic work of Slonimsky], Sovremennaya sovetskaya opera, ed. A.L. Porfir′yeva (Leningrad, 1985), 24–59 M. Rïtsareva: Kompozitor Sergey Slonimsky, monografiya (Leningrad, 1991) L.N. Raaben: O dukhovnom renessanse v russkoy muzïke 1960–80kh godov [About the spiritual renaissance of Russian music during the 1960s–80s] (St Petersburg, 1998) External links Official Site of composer Sergei Slonimsky | Saint Petersburg Contemporary Music Center reMusik.org Interview with Sergei Slonimsky | reMusik.org Journal Composer's home page Ovar's Russian collection 1932 births 2020 deaths Russian Jews Jewish classical composers Russian male classical composers Soviet classical composers Soviet male classical composers Russian opera composers Male opera composers Academic staff of Saint Petersburg Conservatory Saint Petersburg Conservatory alumni 20th-century Russian male musicians