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On 7/4/24 10:22 AM, Evelyn C. Leeper wrote:
> On 7/4/24 8:58 AM, Scott Dorsey wrote:
>>> [Hal Heydt]
>>> I've been wondering if organizations were doing that.  Pretty
>>> much all of the classical Russian composers pre-date Putin, and
>>> many pre-date the Soviet Union.  I'd rather hate to see Borodin's
>>> "In the Steppes of Central Asia" or any number of
>>> Rimsky-Korasakhov's works dropped from being played (just to cite
>>> a couple of examples).
>>
>> In the Steppes of Central Asia is interesting in modern times because it
>> celbrates a land that isn't part of Russia but which Russia desperately
>> wants.  Same goes for the Gayane Ballet Suite.
>>
>> Hope they are playing Berezovsky's Ukranian suites again, though.
>> --scott
> 
> Or Mussorgsky's "Great Gates of Kiev".
> 

I just heard that on WCRB yesterday, as part of the complete "Pictures 
at an Exhibition." I wonder if it helps to change the spelling to "Great 
Gate of Kyiv."

Then there's Tchaikovsky's "Little Russian" symphony. "Little Russia" 
meant Ukraine, a term which I'm sure they don't like these days.
-- 
Gary McGath    http://www.mcgath.com