Most Russian composers of the past century have been politically engaged, whether they wanted to be or not. Aaron Copland may have been gay and dangerously left-wing at a time when neither orientation ...
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In 1985, saxophonist Merryl Goldberg found herself on a plane to Moscow with three fellow musicians from the Boston Klezmer Conservatory Band. She had carefully packed sheet music, reeds, and other ...
On the morning of August 21, 1968, Warsaw Pact tanks rolled into Wenceslas Square, in Prague, completing an overnight Soviet-led invasion of Czechoslovakia. Alexander Dubček, the liberal-minded leader ...
Like American music, Russian music is the product of a bubbling melting pot — one that combines influences and traditions from far beyond Putin’s so-called ‘Russian World.’ One of Vladimir Putin’s ...
Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by Interest is building in Galina Ustvolskaya, the reclusive Russian composer born 100 years ago whose nickname was “the lady with the hammer.” By ...
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The day singer-songwriter Manizha Sangin was supposed to headline a June music festival in St. Petersburg, Russia, she went instead to a shelter housing Ukrainian refugees. A week earlier, the ...
The Ukrainian Parliament voted to ban some Russian media and sent two bills to President Zelensky to sign. By Carly Olson Ukraine’s Parliament voted to ban the distribution of Russian books and the ...