The best-known piece by Armenian composer Aram Khachaturian is the high-tension, catchy and rhythmically insistent Sabre Dance from his ballet, Gayane. It was first produced in Perm in 1942 and ...

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“gold portfolio”, and his “Sabre Dance” of the well-known ballet “Gayane” takes one of the first places in the list of the most popular compositions of our age. Sciences. Remaining a devoted Armenian, ...

of music. He was insanely popular in the Soviet Union, like the [George] Gershwin of the Soviet Union.” Next week, Kassakhian, who works for the Armenian National Committee, will get the chance to see ...

The "Sabre Dance," albeit his most famous work, is the tip of Khachaturian's repertoire-iceberg. The composer has a number of notable pieces to his name, including this piece. Paavo Jarvi conducts the ...

Subscribe to The New Criterion’s podcast series via Apple or Google. Jay presents a program of music by Aram Khachaturian. You get the “Sabre Dance,” sure, from the ballet Gayane. But plenty more, too ...

IT'S ironic that Georgia's greatest tunesmith, Aram Khachaturian, wrote two of the best-known pieces on the planet - the Sabre Dance and the dreamy, luscious Grand Adagio from Spartacus - yet the ...

Aram Khachaturian (June 6 1903 – May 1, 1978) was a Soviet Armenian composer. Alongside Sergei Prokofiev and Dmitri Shostakovich, Khachaturian is sometimes called one of the three "titans" of Soviet ...

On Saturday night, the Bolshoi Ballet presented Spartacus at the Koch Theater. This was another evening in the Lincoln Center Festival. Spartacus was composed in the mid-1950s by Aram ...

Beethoven had his 65-minute Ninth Symphony, Bach his two-hour B Minor Mass. But for Soviet Composer Aram Khachaturian, a three-minute piece of tuneless orchestral blooey has been enough to establish a ...