“In the 19th and early 20th centuries we had mostly male composers, especially in the Russian Orthodox Church, but I did research and was surprised to find so many beautiful, contemporary ...

This year, the awardees are composer Eduard Artemyev and film ... one of the biggest authorities in contemporary Russian music. Eduard Artemyev, 79, has won international acclaim for composing ...

His first work was nothing less than a full-scale symphony - the first by a modern Russian composer - written when he was still largely ignorant of basic harmonic and contrapuntal principles. So great ...

They wrote on the first two generations of Russian composers from Glinka to Musorgsky, Tchaikovsky and Rimsky-Korsakov. The volume reveals through contemporary Russian eyes how the foundations of the ...

Dmitri Shostakovich and four other outstanding Russian composers will visit the University Saturday afternoon as part of a month-long tour of the United States, under the cultural exchange program ...