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Spotlight: “Troika” from Tchaikovsky’s The Seasons
November may be a climatically unpleasant month, but it did inspire one of my favorite piano pieces: “Troika” from Tchaikovsky’s The Seasons. I turn to Troika for a little uplifting or serenity, which we are all bound to need at some point.
Opera and Ukraine: Soldiers of Music
Even after 32 years as a free nation, the people of Ukraine are still fighting to keep their liberty. A crucial part of the war is Ukraine’s battle to preserve and celebrate the culture that Russia seeks to annihilate.
Spotlight: Rachmaninoff’s “Ne poy, krasavitsa”
‘‘Do not sing, beautiful girl, before me,’ the singer of Rachmaninoff’s poignant ‘Ne poy, krasavitsa, pri mne’ begins, pleading to an unnamed, invisible, and silent…
