Sofia Gubaidulina, Composer Who Provoked Soviet Censors, Dies at 93
Blacklisted at home but finding acclaim abroad, she sought to bridge East and West, the sacred and the secular, in vivid, ...
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A music producer found an old record. It opened up a world of Soviet-era disco
SOHONIE: There was kind of a movement in the Soviet Union to liberalize the arts, in a sense. EISENBERG: This was maybe the first time that music didn't have to be overtly ideological. That was ...
Sofia Gubaidulina, composer whose intensity was spurred by the tyranny of the Soviet regime
Sofia Gubaidulina, who has died aged 93, believed that it was Soviet repression which made her so powerful and distinctive a ...
Sofia Gubaidulina, inventive composer moved by spirituality, dies at 93
Ms. Gubaidulina explored religion and mysticism in avant-garde compositions inspired by poetry, ancient texts and her ...
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Central Asian Soviet-era pop music anthology displays the region's vast diversity
MAYNES: By the early 1990s, the biggest club of them all - the Soviet Union - was set to shutter its doors. Upheaval had gripped Moscow, and it rippled across the USSR. (SOUNDBITE OF MUSIC ...
A Composer Both Fully Modern and Sincerely Spiritual
Sofia Gubaidulina’s work, with its thorniness and religious themes, put her at odds with the Soviet government.
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Central Asian Soviet-era pop music anthology displays the region's vast diversity
A Central Asian Soviet-era pop music anthology shines a light on the region's ethnic diversity and music that transcends genres from Korean Brass Bands to Uyghur garage rock to Crimean jazz.
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Central Asian Soviet-era pop music anthology dislays the region's vast diversity
A Central Asian Soviet-era pop music anthology shines a light on the region's ethnic diversity and music that transcends genres from Korean Brass Bands to Uyghur garage rock to Crimean jazz.