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 ...

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.

The Music: Khachaturian’s two best-known ballets are almost too full of dazzling folk melodies from his native Armenia. Yet for all his music’s fecundity and the immediate appeal of Adagio from ...

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They were discovered playing in a subway, and since then, they've hit the big time. The members of the Russian group Trio Voronezh bring their conservatory training to three classic Russian folk ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...