CALENDAR OF EVENTS

at the Russian Composers Meadow, Washington, D.C.

to honor

                                                                                            Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky   1840-1893

                                                                                            Sergei Rachmaninoff        1873-1943

                                                                                            Igor Stravinsky                  1882-1971

                                                                                            Dmitri Shostakovich          1906-1975

                                                                                            Sergei Prokofiev            1891-1953

The Meadow is located at the Guy Mason Center,

 3600 Calvert St., NW, Washington, D.C.  20007

(Glover Park neighborhood, Calvert and Wisconsin, near the Naval Observatory. Parking to the left of the red brick Guy Mason Center building)

Memorial Days at the “ Russian Composers Meadow”

            Placement of Flowers

March 5 …………Death of Sergei Prokofiev (1953)

March 28 ………..Death of Sergei Rachmaninoff (1943)

April 1 ……..........Birth of Sergei Rachmaninoff (1873)

April 6...................Death of Igor Stravinsky (1971)

April 27………….Birth of Sergei Prokofiev (1891)

May 7 …………...Birth of Piotr Tchaikovsky (1840)

June 17  …………Birth of  Igor Stravinsky (1882)

August 9 …………Death of Dmitri Shostakovich (1975)

September 25 ……Birth of Dmitri Shostakovich (1906)

November 6 ……...Death of Piotr Tchaikovsky (1893)

More information in Washington Museum of Russian Poetry ( Uli Zislin, Curator  ):

       Phone: 301/942-2728, e-mail: museum@zislin.com