As the curtain was all set to fall on the 22nd Russian Dance Festival, the audience heard a popular tune. One that most of ...

Musicians in the Time of Stalin by Michel Krielaars emphasises the challenges artists faces during the Soviet era.

Revisiting 'Back in the USSR', a forgotten solo album by former Beatles member Paul McCartney which was released exclusively in the Soviet Union back in 1988.

In one of the most remarkable non-violent revolutions in history, the people of Estonia used music as their greatest weapon. For decades under Soviet rule, Estonians gathered to sing folk songs that ...

Russian musician Vadim Stroykin, known for his contributions to the bard music genre, died after falling from his 10th-floor ...

FORT WORTH — Both the Fort Worth and Dallas symphony orchestras paired related works on concerts this week. Following the DSO’s Austro-German program, reviewed separately, the FWSO on Friday presented ...

For years, various musicians have been credited with coining a familiar quip about the inadequacies of music criticism: ...

The revived contest, planned to take place in Moscow later this year, is Russia's way of directly challenging Eurovision ...

The Russian singer, shunned over her past support of Vladimir V. Putin, made her first American appearance since 2019 at a ...

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spiced up with world music and some rap, with the stated aim of aiding the struggle against cultural “assimilation” of their country by its neighbour Russia. Ukraine’s DakhaBrakha ensemble starts the ...