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SOLOVAI ITALY – TOTO KUTUNHO
No matter how strange it looked, but this singer and composer, the world fame to which came thanks to the song “L’italiano”, is more popular and loved abroad than in its homeland. Of course, in Italy, everyone knows Toto Cutugno, they sing his songs, but it was in the Apennines that the performer’s critics were constantly smashed to pieces, not finding anything original in Kutunyo’s compositions. But the paradox is that the audience never agreed with their opinion – Toto was and remains the favorite of the public, who became the face of the Sanremo festival, almost every year presenting a new hit on it, and then disappearing from the native stage until next season . Continue reading
Conductor Igor Blazhkov – about Stravinsky, about modern music, about Shostakovich and about yourself
A student of the Mravinsky Kyiv resident Igor Blazhkov, who recently celebrated his eightieth birthday, is known to a whole generation of Soviet music lovers as one of the main propagandists of the “new music” in the USSR. He conducted the first performances of Schoenberg, Webern, Ives, Varese, Volkonsky, and corresponded with contemporary composers from all over the world, from Boulez to Stockhausen. As a student, he entered into correspondence with Igor Stravinsky and the first in the Soviet Union after a long break, performed his music, and later participated in the preparation of his arrival in 1962. Continue reading
