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Olga Fyodorova
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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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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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Each time we learn that a composer was commissioned by someone to write something it takes some time and effort to make us believe that it really is a masterpiece.
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A choirboy, a village deacon, a choirmaster in a Moscow cathedral, Moscow Conservatory Professor, Soviet Army General, the founder of the first professional military ensemble, the author of the Soviet national anthem – it’s hard to believe that all this is about one and the same person.
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Several days ago a powerful American landing party arrived in the Russian capital, led by a world-famous Italian. I am referring to the Chicago symphony orchestra conducted by celebrated Riccardo Mutti.
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Vibrant, rhythmic sounds are reverberating over the usual din of urban life this week, as churches and monasteries across
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Today we’d like to talk about Alexanders and the prominent people who went under this beautiful name. And you know the meaning of this name, don’t you?
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Today we are taking a look at the noteworthy dates of the month of May, a month traditionally in this country colored in red hues, and resonating with march rhythms. In soviet years, May 1st was broadly marked as the International Workers’ Day, with huge red banners hung on practically every house.
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In April all Christians will be celebrating Easter. This year some confessions mark it on the 8th, some – on the 15th of April. Traditionally, the day of Jesus Christ’s Resurrection shall be accompanied by bell chimes and glorious music that was written especially for this feast.
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Recalling some of the most memorable music dates of the month of March, the first I would like to dwell on is the 85th birth anniversary of Mstislav Rostropovich. The great Russian musician – cellist, conductor, pedagogue - turned everything he set his mind to into a truly outstanding event.
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We are remembering the noteworthy music dates of the month of February. Let me remind you that this is a leap year, so we have a relatively unique opportunity to mark the birthday of great Italian opera Master Gioachino Antonio Rossini . He was born 220 years ago, on February 29th, 1792.
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January 2012: Miliy Balakirev. Alexander Scriabin. Tamara Gverdtsiteli We have entered the new year of 2012 – something I would like to congratulate you all with, yet again! And now its time for us to take a look at the memorable historical dates of the opening month of the year.
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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 |
