Valery Gergiev

The Maestro and The Butchers

Ivan Katz | Posted 09.04.2008 | Entertainment

Read More: Sudetenland, South Ossetia, Valery Gergiev, Oswald Kabasta, Music, Georgia, Rostropovich, Entertainment News
Ivan Katz

Too often musicians entering the political arena manage to stub their toes - or worse, as any musician affiliated with the Nazi Party would have told you after 1945.

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Visitors in Russia

Pablo Ganguli | Posted 07.21.2008 | Entertainment

Read More: Saint Petersburg, Thomas Ades, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Stephen Frears, Orlando Figes, Russia, Royal Academy, Valery Gergiev, The Queen, Mariinsky, Entertainment News
Pablo Ganguli

This year, we have chosen Moscow for our annual festival of art, film and media. Saint Petersburg was our magical playground in 2007, and I still cherish that very first Russian experience.

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CULTURE ZOHN: Erotic Art and Music Change Preconceptions

Patricia Zohn | Posted 03.06.2008 | Entertainment

Read More: Edouard Manet, Vienna Philharmonic, Gustave Courbet, Yefim Bronfman, Whitney Biennial, Valery Gergiev, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Carnegie Hall, Entertainment News
Patricia Zohn

2008-03-07-centerfrIn fact if you take your date (or mate) to Courbet and then to Carnegie Hall, I don't see how it's not possible to score. They are both the very epitome of enticing foreplay.

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