Even when it was composed in 1718, Handel’s Acis and Galatea must have seemed a piece of pure escapism. The London ...

Music is a powerful tool of resistance, and has been used this way for centuries. In the late years of USSR music played a big role in supporting dissent and new ideas. More recently, in Russia, which ...

When Russia launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine, in the winter of 2022, the rock group Bi-2 was on a nationwide tour. The group, a stalwart of the Russian music scene for more than two decades ...

We often find ourselves talking about the special place in Knoxville history occupied by Russian composer and pianist Sergei Rachmaninoff. On February 17, 1943, he performed his last recital as a ...

In Philadelphia, in Manhattan and over the radio, Conductor Leopold Stokowski had his Philadelphia Orchestra play all-Russian programs last week. Stravinsky, Skriabin, Prokohev and Moussorgsky are ...

Gianandrea Noseda conducts the National Symphony Orchestra and oboist Alexei Ogrintchouk on Thursday at the Kennedy Center. (Scott Suchman/Kennedy Center) Review by Michael Andor Brodeur “I didn’t ...

ST PETERSBURG, Oct 16 (Reuters) - A teenage Russian street musician was jailed for 13 days on Thursday after she played a banned anti-Kremlin song on St Petersburg's central avenue. Diana Loginova, an ...

Banished from Eurovision, Russia will launch the final of its own international song contest at President Vladimir Putin’s behest on Saturday, with a Soviet-era name and acts intended to promote ...

Authorities in the Russian Republic of Chechnya have announced a ban on music that they consider too fast or slow. Minister of Culture Musa Dadayev announced the decision to limit all musical, vocal ...