Monthly Archives: January 2019
MADONNA – QUEEN POP MUSIC
In a musical culture, individuals of this magnitude appear extremely rarely, the more valuable their contribution to world history. It may sound rather pathetic, but we are lucky to live at the same time with such people, because not everyone has the opportunity to touch the work of those whom they recognize as cult in life. Undoubtedly, one of these favorites is the magnificent Madonna. Her merits are appreciated. The Guinness Book of Records noted her as the most commercially successful performer of all time, and the authoritative magazine Time included Madonna in the list of the most influential women of the last century. Journalists have long called her the queen of pop music, but the path to this title was not easy for the singer. 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
