(A’-ram Kha-cha-toor’-yan) 1903–78 Armenian composer Khachaturian’s music is conservative, winning popularity with its ample tunefulness, sometimes with local colour derived from Armenian folk music. His ballets Gayane (1942) and Spartacus (1954) were very successful in the Soviet Union, and extracts from them (the ‘Sabre Dance’ from Gayane, the pas-de-deux from Spartacus) became world-famous. His concertos, concerto-rhapsodies ...
A range of metal percussion instruments are found in the western orchestra, many of which have ancient and global origins. Triangle The triangle comprises a slim steel bar, circular in cross-section, bent into an equilateral triangle (18 cm/7 in each side) with one corner open. It is played with a metal rod, and is suspended from a ...
Man River’ and ‘All The Things You Are’. Recommended Recording: Show Boat, soloists, London Sinfonietta (cond) John McGlinn (EMI/Warner) Introduction | Modern Era | Classical Personalities | Aram Khachaturian | Modern Era | Classical ...
also turned on the supposed enemy within. In 1948, resolutions were passed by the Communist party condemning, among others, Dmitri Shostakovich (1906–75), Sergei Prokofiev (1891–1953) and Aram Khachaturian (1903–78) for maintaining a ‘formalism … alien to the people and leading to the destruction of music’. These pronouncements had repercussions throughout the Eastern bloc. A few composers, such ...
struggle’ or the new Soviet industrial development. After the mid-1930s Stalin’s government grew strongly hostile to avant-garde music, and composers such as Shostakovich, Sergei Prokofiev (1891–1953) and Aram Khachaturian (1903–78) were forced to find innovative ways of using tonal harmonies and lyrical melodies in, for the most part, nineteenth-century structures. Internationalism In the nineteenth century, composers ...
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