Speaker 2: Carnegie Hall, please. We're going to hear the closing scenes of his 1910 ballet, L’oiseau de feu – The Firebird, the story of Prince Ivan and his victory over Koshei the Deathless, with ...

The first concert was held on Tuesday at the Wonderland Hong Kong open-air concert venue holding about 1,000 spectators HONG KONG, December 17. /TASS/. The Chinese people love Russian music, so it is ...

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 ...

It’s possible that more people might have come to great music through Chopin than from any other composer. It’s equally likely they came to Chopin through his 24 piano preludes, the ultimate in ...

Ballet classic "Swan Lake" performed by the Stanislavsky and Nemirovich-Danchenko Moscow Music Theater has begun its China ...

The final San Antonio Symphony classical series program of the 2018-19 season on Friday night featured splashy, vivid Russian music, helping the orchestra reach the end of its eighth decade in ...

With the death of composer Rodion Shchedrin, Russian classical music ended. This was announced on August 29 by Sergey Bezrukov, People's Artist of Russia and artistic director of the Moscow Provincial ...

Mr. Mauceri is the author of “The War on Music — Reclaiming the Twentieth Century.” There is a trope often heard in discussions about culture that classical music is irrelevant — an elite and moribund ...

MOSCOW, December 20. /TASS/. Russian President Vladimir Putin said that he prefers classical music to heavy metal in an interview taken on the outcomes of his annual press conference. "Heavy metal is ...