Think Russian folk music. Think "Dr. Zhivago." Think all-volunteer, unpaid musicians ages 8-80. That's the Washington Balalaika Society. The 65-member orchestra is celebrating its 20th anniversary ...

Saturday, May 18, the University of Wisconsin Russian Folk Orchestra will present its 26th annual spring concert, ‘The Snowstorm’. The concert will feature several soloists as they perform ...

What types of folk music are there? Folk music exists all around the world. For example there's English folk music, Scottish folk music, American folk music, Russian folk music and so on.

Classics, jazz, Russian folk music and children’s songs all flow as she glides her bow across the strings. It’s not just her repertoire that raises the passengers’ spirits, but her ...

Somehow, over the past half-century and with hardly anyone noticing, the 19th century Russian composer Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky has become as integral to the Fourth of July as George Washington and ...

The upcoming week program will open on May 25 with a concert of the Popov Ryazan Russian Folk Choir. The Ryazanians will show numbers from the choir’s golden collection - Russian folk songs, ...

The University of Wisconsin Russian Folk Orchestra is holding their 25th Anniversary Concert at the First Unitarian Society in Madison May 20. The ensemble’s live performance will be their first since ...

Entertainment Ukraine folk artists harness music to fight Russian ‘assimilation’ A Ukrainian band is treating international audiences to their country’s traditional folk music, spiced up ...

*Balakirev, Rimsky-Korsakov, Borodin, Moussorgsky and César Cui—five famed followers of Michail Glinka, who first turned hisback on Western music, took inspiration from Russian legends, folk tunes.