From: garym@mcgath.com   
      
   On 7/4/24 10:22 AM, Evelyn C. Leeper wrote:   
   > 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".   
   >   
      
   I just heard that on WCRB yesterday, as part of the complete "Pictures   
   at an Exhibition." I wonder if it helps to change the spelling to "Great   
   Gate of Kyiv."   
      
   Then there's Tchaikovsky's "Little Russian" symphony. "Little Russia"   
   meant Ukraine, a term which I'm sure they don't like these days.   
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