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Musical Tales

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Musical Tales is a series of weekly programs for classical music lovers who want to know more about world musical culture and history.

A wealth of eye-opening information - unknown facts and new versions, forgotten names, unexpected revelations and surprise comparisons, a veritable constellation of celebrities - these and other topics will be featured in the MUSICAL TALES series contributed by Olga Fyodorova. 

 

Previous editions
6.02.2012
14:20
Our story is about two bosom friends, both born in April, though exactly a decade apart. Both conservatory graduates in St. Petersburg and both touted as classics already during their lifetime - Nikolai Myaskovsky and Sergei Prokofiev you are talking about! →
23.01.2012
15:15
I’m in a bragging mood today – our violinist par excellence Vladimir Spivakov has given me his latest CD as a gift! Getting such a  celebrity is no shabby deal! What makes the CD so special is that it features something Spivakov recorded almost four decades ago! →
16.01.2012
12:33
Dance is believed to have appeared at the dawn of the human era. Back in those days, people expressed their joy and sorrow with the help of moves. As time wore on, this eventually took the form of dances – folk, ritual, ball and, ultimately, ballet… With time, composers started writing dance tunes where music existed without actual dancing. →
27.12.2011
17:52
A New Year tree, all alight and bristling with fancy decorations… We just can’t imagine New Year’s coming and Christmas without it, can we? Any idea about when exactly they started setting up these spruce trees on the squares and in our homes? Where did the "Christmas tree" really come from? →
12.12.2011
16:33
We've been around for quite a number of years now! Yes, it's the 333 edition! Quite a significant event... Number 3 has traditionally been seen as a sort of a magical figure. Just like in an old fairy tale, where an important action is always done in three takes with the last one, resulting in a miracle. →
5.12.2011
10:38
People everywhere tend to give their kids similar names no matter how different they may sound to one's ear. →
15.11.2011
16:11
You may have noticed the abundance of Armenian names among Russia’s musical celebrities, didn’t you?.. Spread all across the globe, the Armenian nation has spawned a flurry of  great names. →

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Olga Fyodorova

Olga Fyodorova was born in Moscow in 1947. During her eventful and successful career she passed all the stages of musical education, from music school to conservatory.

Olga Fyodorova worked as a conductor for the Leningrad (St.Petersburg) Court Capella and was the founder of the Moscow Philharmonic Society’s press service.

She started to work for The Voice of Russia (then Radio Moscow) in 1976, as editor. Over the years, she has advanced to the post of radio observer. She is currently running a number of the Voice of Russia’s high-profile programs, including MUSIC AND MUSICIANS, MUSICAL TALES and MUSIC CALENDAR.

Olga Fyodorova has interviewed nearly all of Russia’s celebrity musicians, including M.Rostropovich, Y.Svetlanov, V.Gergiev, Y.Temirkanov, R.Shchedrin, V.Spivakov, Y.Bashmet, D.Bashkirov, E.Virsaladze, N.Gutman, G.Vishnevskaya, I.Arkhipova, Y.Nesterenko, V.Atlantov, Y.Obraztsova, D.Matsuyev, A.Gindin, Y.Mechetina and B.Andrianov.

Olga Fyodorova writes a lot for newspapers and magazines and teaches History of Music and History of Music Theatre at the Boris Shchukin Institute of Theatrical Arts.
 
 
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