Serge Prokofieff, famed Russian modernist composer, has a scunner against Boston. Seven years ago, when his Fourth Symphony was premièred there, supercilious Bostonians pooh-poohed it, critics even ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Shchedrin (1997): serene, subtle and quietly witty - Jack Mitchell/Getty Rodion Shchedrin, the composer who has died aged 92, was ...

The discovery of one old record is breathing new life into a genre of Soviet-era music that hasn't been widely heard overseas for decades. About a decade ago, music producer Vik Sohonie was in New ...

Russia has revived Intervision, a Soviet-era song contest, with 22 countries participating. Critics argue the event serves as a geopolitical tool, reflecting Moscow's anti-Western outlook and rivaling ...

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 ...

Inevitably one furrows a brow (or two) at a jumped-up subtitle promising an “incredible true story,” but David Junk delivers the goods in “Rockin’ the Kremlin,” a jaunty, picaresque memoir by the man ...

Russia will hold its "Intervision" music competition in September, organisers announced on Wednesday, after authorities revived the Soviet-era competition that was meant to rival Eurovision. The ...

Snopes reached out to Alexei Yurchak, a Russian-born American anthropologist and professor of anthropology at the University of California, Berkeley, for clarification on this alleged ban on Western ...