The famous Sabre Dance is the one piece by Aram Khatchaturian everybody has heard. But there's a lot of other good music that comes from the same place, Khatchaturian's ballet Gayane. We hear Andre ...

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 ...

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 ...

Like other audience members, I bet, I was waiting for the “Sabre Dance.” It came at 9:30 or so, two hours after curtain. We were attending Of Love and Rage, a new ballet, performed by the American ...

Live at the BBC Proms from the Royal Albert Hall, the organist of Paris’s Notre-Dame Cathedral roams through 250 years of music in a wide-ranging recital programme that stretches from Bach to Falla.

Those leaving a Washburn University concert Thursday night at White Concert Hall likely likely will do so with an earworm deep in their brains. The last music slated to be played at the 7:30 p.m.

Katie Derham looks at the influence of Arabic traditions on Western dance, in light of the forthcoming Shubbak Festival in London, which offers a window into contemporary Arab culture. From the ...