Music Review: Poetry and Song to Plumb the Russian Soulâs Depths
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Misha Rachlevsky, the Chamber Orchestra Kremlin 's music director, elicited warm, full-blooded and virtuosic playing with colorfully shaped, gleaming phrases at Weill Recital Hall on Tuesday.
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Once the Olympiad of classical music, Russia's top international music prize the Tchaikovsky competition opened this week hoping to restore its lost glory after more than a decade in the doldrums.
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PIMCHAKH, Russia  - Listening to enigmatic Koryak-language songs and eating traditional salmon soup and cutlets in this village, it is easy to imagine indigenous cultures still thrive on Russia's Kamchatka peninsula.
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Officials in a Russian city are to force discos to play folk music and close early in a bid to improve public morality.
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The headless body of a Ukrainian poet, night-time raids on railway depots and the theft of priceless works of art. The ingredients of a Cold War thriller?
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The recent death of poet Czeslaw Milosz robs the world of one of its most prophetic and powerful voices.
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The New York City Balletâs âAmerican Songs and Dancesâ is an odd collection of dances.
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Truly a compelling contemporary musical feast by Rajhesh Vaidhya.
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âJerry Springer: The Operaâ  uncovers something grand within the small, squalid lives it portrays.
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James Rodgers in Moscow examines the ups and downs of Russian-style capitalism.
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Once the Olympiad of classical music,  Russia&#39;s top international music prize the Tchaikovsky  competition opened this week hoping to restore its lost glory  after more than a decade in the doldrums.
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The theatrical vision of "K. I. From 'Crime,' " performed in Russian by the Foundry Theater on west 37th Street, turns a foreign language into a form of music.
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Pavol Liska's pared-down adaptation of Anton Chekhov's "Three Sisters" exposes the play's absurdist humor and howling sadness.
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A mysterious death in London brings back bad memories--and disturbs the new dissidents who defend Russia's freedoms
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Thereâs a lot going on under the surface of âFeel the Noise,â far more than its indefensibly generic title suggests.
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ItÂs a book called Talking Songs written by Nasreen Munni Kabeer.
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An eclectic array of collaborators has given new life to the lyrics a folk trailblazer left behind. A rare concert recording has surfaced too.