Re: CRIT awards code of conduct

On 7/4/24 10:22 AM, Evelyn C. Leeper wrote:

On 7/4/24 8:58 AM, Scott Dorsey wrote:

[Hal Heydt]
I've been wondering if organizations were doing that.  Pretty
much all of the classical Russian composers pre-date Putin, and
many pre-date the Soviet Union.  I'd rather hate to see Borodin's
"In the Steppes of Central Asia" or any number of
Rimsky-Korasakhov's works dropped from being played (just to cite
a couple of examples).

>
In the Steppes of Central Asia is interesting in modern times because it
celbrates a land that isn't part of Russia but which Russia desperately
wants.  Same goes for the Gayane Ballet Suite.
>
Hope they are playing Berezovsky's Ukranian suites again, though.
--scott

 Or Mussorgsky's "Great Gates of Kiev".
 

I just heard that on WCRB yesterday, as part of the complete "Pictures at an Exhibition." I wonder if it helps to change the spelling to "Great Gate of Kyiv."
Then there's Tchaikovsky's "Little Russian" symphony. "Little Russia" meant Ukraine, a term which I'm sure they don't like these days.
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Gary McGath    http://www.mcgath.com