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2021-04-10 08:18:02
Go, not knowing where: I chat to pianist Elan Sicroff about Russian composer Thomas de Hartmann and the Thomas de Hartmann project
[…] who had assisted conductor Hans Richter in preparing Richard Wagner's first complete Ring Cycle at Bayreuth in 1876, and himself conducted Tristan und Isolde at Bayreuth in 1886. But in Munich, De Hartmann found the music scene was very rigid, and he was drawn to other artists. He became a friend of the painter Vassily Kandinsky (1866-1944) and the artists of Der Blaue Reiter school. De Hartmann created works with Kandinsky and the dancer Alexander Sakharov (1886-1963) which became all the rage. This period culminated in De Hartmann's unfinished work Der Gelbe Klang (which was reconstructed in 1972 and premiered at the Guggenheim Museum). But World War I meant he had to return to Russia for military service. Thomas de Hartmann and his wife Olga at around the time of their wedding in 1906,the year of the premiere of his ballet La Fleurette Rouge In […]
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ArtsJournal: music
2018-08-02 12:16:12
Vladimir Voinovich, Satirical Author And Pre- And Post-Soviet Dissident, Dead At 85
“[In the 1970s, he] had been blacklisted after criticizing state censorship and defending dissidents such as novelist Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn and physicist Andrei Sakharov. … Through his subsequent exile in West Germany and the United States, his return to the Soviet Union under Mikhail Gorbachev’s liberalization policy of glasnost, and the rise of President Vladi¬mir Putin, […]
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ArtsJournal: music
2018-07-22 13:30:09
The Essay That Helped Bring Down The Soviet Union
It had a mild title, the essay that The New York Times published in 1968, but its intent was broad and strong. “‘Freedom of thought is the only guarantee against an infection of mankind by mass myths, which, in the hands of treacherous hypocrites and demagogues, can be transformed into bloody dictatorships,’ [Andrei Sakharov] wrote. […]
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ArtsJournal: music
2016-10-07 14:31:32
Dressed As Cossacks, Russian Nationalists Vandalize Moscow Photography Shows
“Another photography exhibition in Moscow was raided by protesters dressed as Cossacks, others in camouflage and a municipal legislator – the third such attack in the Russian capital this week. The back-to-back attacks centred on images of Ukrainian soldiers who fought against pro-Russian rebels that are part of a photojournalism show at the Sakharov Center.”
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