Rodion Konstantinovich Shchedrin (Russian: Родион Константинович Щедрин, IPA: [rədʲɪˈon kənstɐnʲˈtʲinəvʲɪtɕ ɕːɪˈdrʲin]; born 16 December 1932) is a Soviet and Russian composer and pianist, winner of ...

If there’s one thing Valery Gergiev and the Mariinsky Orchestra do superbly well, it’s playing the music of Russian composers. Not just the familiar marquee names, either — on top of Shostakovich, ...

The Mariinsky Theater will be hosting on December 22 and 23 two concerts as a tribute to the outstanding contemporary composer Rodion Shchedrin, who celebrates his 80th birthday in December, the ...

Russian composer Rodion Shchedrin, whose work included famed ballets such as "Anna Karenina" and "Carmen Suite", has died at the age of 92, Moscow's Bolshoi Theatre said Friday, calling his passing an ...

Shchedrin was one of the most high-profile Russian composers of the late Soviet era and continued to lead the Russian new music scene in the following decades The Russian composer and pianist Rodion ...

On December 16 Russian composer Rodion Shchedrin turned 80 years old. Shchedrin was born in 1932 in Moscow into a musical family: his father was a composer and a teacher of music theory. He studied at ...

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Maya Plisetskaya as Carmen and Nikolai Fadeyechev in Shchedrin's 1967 ballet for her Recently, however, Shchedrin - now 78 and long hardly heard in Russian and European concert halls coming to terms ...

Is the artist’s life really more free in the Soviet Union since the arrival of glasnost? To Rodion Shchedrin, one of the country’s most important composers, the answer is obvious from his very ...

Russian composer Rodion Shchedrin points at boxes containing his archives as his wife, Russian ballet legend Maya Plisetskaya, watches Russian ballet dancer Maya Plisetskaya with her husband Rodion ...