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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Sofia Gubaidulina: her music was labelled 'irresponsible' by the Soviet authorities for its exploration of unorthodox tunings - ...

In 1985, saxophonist Merryl Goldberg found herself on a plane to Moscow with three fellow musicians from the Boston Klezmer Conservatory Band. She had carefully packed sheet music, reeds, and other ...

On the morning of August 21, 1968, Warsaw Pact tanks rolled into Wenceslas Square, in Prague, completing an overnight Soviet-led invasion of Czechoslovakia. Alexander Dubček, the liberal-minded leader ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In the Soviet Union, some clever people realized that X-ray film was just soft enough to be etched by a sound recording device.

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 ...

Like American music, Russian music is the product of a bubbling melting pot — one that combines influences and traditions from far beyond Putin’s so-called ‘Russian World.’ One of Vladimir Putin’s ...

When Western Electric invented electrical sound recording 100 years ago, it completely transformed the public’s relationship to music. Before then, recording was done mechanically, scratching sound ...