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Olga Shapovalova
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Olga Shapovalova, music expert, music reviewer, radio journalist Olga’s radio features were listed among top ten programs according to Passport to World Band Radio and received a number of awards. Olga’s motto is “My programs are about good music of all genres”. Among her radio features are “Music and Musicians”, “Russia: 1000 years of music”, “Folk Box” and “Russian Hits”. Olga’s colleagues often say “Olga can find anything in her musical treasure trove”. Her collection, indeed, features the best, unique and rare music.
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A 100th jubilee is a date like that is always impressive! Yes, the Glinka museum of Music Culture in Moscow has turned 100. This is Russia’s oldest, largest, richest in priceless treasures, and most… I don’t think I need to continue enumerating. One of Russia’s “most-most” museums!
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Today for the entire hour in our feature we shall be listening to the music of my great compatriot Sergey Pokofiev. Why? Well, for one thing, because Prokofiev was born in Spring.
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Valeri Gergiev’s Moscow Easter Festival always starts and ends with festive bell chimes, or to be more
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Moscow has not seen a festival of such a scope. In the course of a month performing at best concert venues of Moscow a host of renowned musicians have assembled under the name of Mstislav Rostropovich, legendary cellist, conductor, pedagogue and public figure.
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Festive bell chimes can be heard all across the Russian land presently… On April 15th Orthodox Christians celebrate Easter. Moscow on this day traditionally witnesses the opening of the Easter Festival under the leadership of world-famous conductor Valeri Gergiev. The festival offers a grand-scale series of festive music programs – around a hundred of them!
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An excerpt from a famous quote, when on the stage of the Grand Hall of Moscow Conservatory, in
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Today we are in for a noisy intrusion: I can hear him already: all tempestuous and over-excited, noisy, a troublesome prankster - “Petrushka” is perhaps, one of the most celebrated ballets in the world! Could Stravinsky himself have ever predicted that his ballet would be destined to enjoy so fortunate a fate?
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It was Igor Stravinsky who announced to the 20th century: “So be it!” When did he do this? Most likely when the Russian Seasons came into the world. Paris, which reigned in “music politics” of the world, at the start of the 20th century.
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Stravinsky, who, perhaps to a greater extent than anyone else in the art of the 20th century, was a man of the world, once said: “I am Russian. I speak and think in Russian.
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Igor Stravinsky, "Czar Igor" as his contemporaries referred to him, was one of the principal culture personalities of the 20th century. He reigned with dazzling authority almost throughout the entire century – from its very start and up until the 1970s. Could anyone possibly overshadow this tempestuous, paradoxical, overwhelmingly awesome in its unparalleled genius omnipotence?!...
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The Buryats are one of the largest peoples inhabiting Siberia. They number 440.000 people. For many thousands of years the Buryats have populated an almost mystical, sacral region, near a unique lake which is more resembling a sea.
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We are always so anxious as we await this wonderful time of the year. It is so magical! In our part of the world real spring starts only in May. That means that it’s time for the warm weather to set in
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Folk songs sung by people in war years, songs-recollections born after the war, the fate of folk musicians who themselves were participants or witnesses of those events – all this in this edition of Folk Box timed for the anniversary of Great Victory in WWII.
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So, who are we meeting up with today? The Mordva – a people populating the Volga river area. Now, I am really in for it if some linguists-ethnographers are hearing this!.. The fact is, for many decades now there has been a heated debate regarding this very name.
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Orthodox Christians in Russia are celebrating Easter! A remarkable holiday, filled to the brim with a radiant joy and dazzling beauty… The entire week after Easter – is, first and foremost, a remarkable aura of sound – everything around, every ‘atom’ of air, all the surrounding space seems to resonate with bell chimes.
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Dmitry Polikanov Vice-President of the PIR Center, Moscow Ilya Fabrichnikov Expert in communication technologies and managing partner of UnitedCom Consultants Jean Pierre Darnis Deputy Director of the Security and Defense Program at Istituto Affari Internazionali Nandan Unnikrishnan Senior fellow at the Observer Research Foundation Valentina Colombo Senior fellow and expert in the geopolitics of the Islamic world, Rome, Italy Jovan Deretic President of the Free Serbia Movement Gennady Yevstafyev Expert in nonproliferation issues and retired Lieutenant General of the Russian Foreign Intelligence Service Rick Rozoff Manager of the Stop NATO website and mailing list and a contributing writer to GlobalResearch.ca |
