Last week a few lark-notes of new-style Russian music were heard in the U. S.: the overture to an opera, Gulsara, by Reinhold Moritzovich Gliere, veteran Soviet composer and professor at the ...

Back in 1957, jazz icon Louis Armstrong was asked by the US State Department to travel to the Soviet Union preaching "US values", but the trumpeter refused.

The ban will not apply to Russian composers who died before the collapse of the Soviet Union Ukraine's parliament has voted in favour of banning some Russian music in media and public spaces.

This second anthology of Russian writing on Russian music begins in 1880 (where the first volume concluded) and ends in 1917. It brings the thoughts of leading Russian music critics to an ...