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 ...

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 - ...

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 ...

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 ...

Soviet-era composer Nikita Bogoslovsky, who wrote more than 300 musical scores, has died, according to Russian news reports. He was 90. By Billboard Staff Soviet-era composer Nikita Bogoslovsky, who ...

Acts like Little Big have fled the country to restart their careers, even as some records labels continue to release music inside Russia. On the day that Russia invaded Ukraine, Feb. 24, Russian ...

Today is all about the stage. However, all three share the commonality of being vessels created by the Soviet Union between ...

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 ...

The theremin was invented as a Soviet science experiment, and later used as a tool for industrial espionage. Despite its origins, Hollywood embraced the electronic instrument in the 1950s. The ...

The day singer-songwriter Manizha Sangin was supposed to headline a June music festival in St. Petersburg, Russia, she went instead to a shelter housing Ukrainian refugees. A week earlier, the ...

Audiences are not drawn to Shakespeare’s characters for their “Englishness,” or Raphael’s paintings for their Italian characteristics, or Beethoven’s music for its native German qualities. Artists are ...

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 ...