Word: rodion
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...proof, consider "Making Music Together," an ambitious three-week festival currently thriving in Boston. Conceived jointly by Sarah Caldwell, the visionary leader of the Opera Company of Boston, and Russian Composer Rodion Shchedrin, the $4.6 million event features some 500 Soviet and American musicians, composers and dancers in an exhaustive survey of contemporary Soviet musical thinking. (Next year Caldwell & Co. will journey to Moscow for a reciprocal visit.) Despite an improvisatory, hey-kids-let's-put-on-a-show atmosphere, the festival offers an unparalleled opportunity to hear and assess the state of new Soviet music and performance...
...this Friday's Sanders performance, chief conductor of the Bolshoi Theatre, Alexander Lazarez, will lead the Instrumental Soloists of the Bolshoi Theatre. Soviet composer, Rodion Shchedrin, will come to the theater for the American premiere of his two pieces, "Geometry of Sound" and "Frescoes of Dyonisios." Shchedrin's presence is the "special highlight" of the performance, Morgan said...
...committed Communist since joining the party in 1927, Ustinov gained power in the bureaucracy as he rose in the armaments industry. When Defense Minister Marshal Rodion Malinovsky died in 1967, there was widespread speculation that the post would pass to Ustinov. Instead, the Kremlin chose another military man, Marshal Andrei Grechko. Ustinov finally got the Defense portfolio in 1976. Along with it, he gained full membership in the Politburo and the title of marshal...
...voice could be heard, whispering hunting tales: of his courage when a boar once attacked his jeep; of the bison that stuffed itself with the bait laid out for other animals and then fell contentedly asleep on the steps of the hunting stand, trapping Soviet Defense Minister Marshal Rodion Malinovski in the tower above until a search party rescued...
...intermission, actors, dancers and musicians sought out the opinion of Rodion Shchedrin, the U.S.S.R.'s best known composer of modern music. He declared that he had tried to talk his friend Voznesensky out of getting involved with something as vulgar as a rock opera. Shchedrin, who is chairman of the powerful Russian Composers Union, then explained he had listened to a tape of the music. His verdict: "I fell in love with it." Soviet cultural bureaucrats were not as enthusiastic. They excised musical numbers that they regarded as too religious before giving permission for last week's performance...