From: evelynchimelisleeper@gmail.com   
      
   On 7/4/24 8:58 AM, Scott Dorsey wrote:   
   >> [Hal Heydt]   
   >> I've been wondering if organizations were doing that.  Pretty   
   >> much all of the classical Russian composers pre-date Putin, and   
   >> many pre-date the Soviet Union.  I'd rather hate to see Borodin's   
   >> "In the Steppes of Central Asia" or any number of   
   >> Rimsky-Korasakhov's works dropped from being played (just to cite   
   >> a couple of examples).   
   >   
   > In the Steppes of Central Asia is interesting in modern times because it   
   > celbrates a land that isn't part of Russia but which Russia desperately   
   > wants.  Same goes for the Gayane Ballet Suite.   
   >   
   > Hope they are playing Berezovsky's Ukranian suites again, though.   
   > --scott   
      
   Or Mussorgsky's "Great Gates of Kiev".   
      
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