Can a musical be a sexy beast? Especially if it’s infused with the yearning and even melancholy of the pre-revolutionary Russian sort? If the goings on at the Arvada Center are any measure, the answer ...

If the Bolshevik Revolution never happened, the world would be better off in countless ways, but the American songbook would be missing a few of its most elegant tunes. That’s because “April in Paris, ...

In this first programme, Valery Gergiev takes us into the heart of the Russian countryside. Over the centuries, the traditions of folk culture have been an assertion of the Russian identity and the ...

The entire sweep of Russian musical history is explored in this four-part series, beginning with its origins in ancient chants and folk music, stretching through to radical contemporary composers like ...

KEENE, N.H. Russian Music -- It is not often that four of my favorite symphonic pieces are played in the same concert, as on a recent Medici Arts DVD: Borodin's "Polovtsian Dances" and Symphony No. 2, ...

MOSCOW -- The lights in the hall dimmed, and the musicians walked in, taking their seats. Eight music stands stood empty to honor their dead colleagues. The actors followed and, without a word of ...

MOSCOW, 24 February (BelTA - TV BRICS) - TV BRICS International Media Network presents a new documentary film "Partitura. Young Music of Russia". The project is aimed at popularising internationally ...

A romantic Russian musical closed nearly a year ahead of schedule Saturday, unable to win back audiences after a hostage-taking raid last fall that left 129 people dead. Chechen gunmen seized the ...