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News Russia » Music: The Silencing of Russian Art
When Russia launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine, in the winter of 2022, the rock group Bi-2 was on a nationwide tour. The group, a stalwart of the Russian music scene for more than two decades ...
News Russia » Music: Rodion Shchedrin, Composer Who Captured Russia’s Soul, Dies at 92
He drew on Russian literature for his stage works and was an eager experimenter, inspired by folk tales, religious mysticism and melodrama. By Jonathan Kandell Rodion Shchedrin, a leading Russian ...
News Russia » Music: Barred from Eurovision, Russia hosts rival ‘Intervision’ song contest
Banished from Eurovision, Russia will launch the final of its own international song contest at President Vladimir Putin’s behest on Saturday, with a Soviet-era name and acts intended to promote ...
News Russia » Music: At Russia's Intervision Song Contest, A Vietnamese Singer Gets Top Prize
A Vietnamese pop singer won top honors at Russia’ s Intervision Song Contest, a Cold-War era music festival that Moscow revived in response to being kicked out of the global Eurovision spectacle for ...
News Russia » Music: Music: In & Out of Russia
In Philadelphia, in Manhattan and over the radio, Conductor Leopold Stokowski had his Philadelphia Orchestra play all-Russian programs last week. Stravinsky, Skriabin, Prokohev and Moussorgsky are ...
News Russia » Music: Chechnya is banning music that's too fast or slow. These songs wouldn't make the cut
Authorities in the Russian republic of Chechnya are banning music they consider either too fast or too slow, effectively criminalizing many genres. The Chechen Ministry of Culture announced the ban on ...
News Russia » Music: Russia strikes Ukraine's Dnipro organ hall and rare music heritage
Will this legendary establishment be able to resume normal operations? The renowned House of Organ and Chamber Music in Dnipro was damaged during another Russian attack on the night of June 15, ...
News Russia » Music: Music: Young Russia
Serge Prokofieff, famed Russian modernist composer, has a scunner against Boston. Seven years ago, when his Fourth Symphony was premièred there, supercilious Bostonians pooh-poohed it, critics even ...