Russian composers

Community Intervention: Ukrainian Village The Ukrainian community in the Chicagoland area is “scattered” but its core neighborhood is located within Chicago’s “Ukrainian Village.” Ukrainian Village in Chicago has been the focus of the lives of the Ukrainian people for a vast majority of the 20th and 21st century. This central area continues with: “three major Ukrainian churches, two Ukrainian banks, a Ukrainian grammar school, the Ukrainian National Museum, a Ukrainian Cultural Center, two Ukrainian

or nation. It is solely used in hopes to achieve a more positive and willing working class, through posters, information and street speeches, Stalin eventually and skillfully over his people. Josef Stalin used propaganda as a tool to brainwash the Russian people to think he was a man of character, integrity and power. People of different ages/ranges of age were manipulated by Stalin’s propaganda every day of their lives. Anywhere anyone went; it was inevitable that there would be a picture or

Depiction of the post-historical time in the Tolstaya’s novel represents a perfect morally corrupt world in need of a saviour. This degraded setting echoes the failed utopianism thinking of the early-post Soviet period, as according to Agren: “it [The Slynx] is a reflection of the postmodern and late Soviet disbelief in the utopian idea of state-promoted progress as a grand narrative.” Even though Agren argues that the anti-utopianism of the novel was inspired by the Soviet collapse, the “Blast”

Nina Petrova was born in Basmanny Russia in 1997. Daughter of Orlov and Anna Petrova, young reckless revolutionary insurgents, she grew unloved and uncared for. She lived her first years surrounded by the most inadequate environment, always traveling from here to there with both her parents too involved in a coup d'etat, always seeking new ways to attack the government of Russia. Her parents never allowed her to go to school since they despised Russia’s educational system like proper anarchists.

Russian culture is its history and people, which date back 1200 years’ beginning has a small empire in Eastern Europe. Why now when it comes to Russia, are Americans "stuck" in concepts of the communist Soviet Union (6). A period of history of just seventy years that ended twenty five years ago. To understand Russia’s culture, we will look back on Russian history and current circumstances. Russia is the largest country the world at over 17,000,000 sq. km, twice the extent of the United States

2008 Poll: The Greatest Russians of All Time For many, the most disturbing aspect of this list compiled years ago in Russia, is that Stalin was able to make it on to the list at all, given the regime of terror that Stalin was responsible for, and the millions upon millions of lives that perished in the gulags under his reign. One journalist attributes this to the fact that Russians love their tsars and often believe their leaders to be extensions of themselves (Savodnik, 2006). As one journalist

Macmillian is a modern Scottish composer who tends to write in a minimalist style. This piece was composed in 1994 as part of a commission from British Telecommunications and was premiered in the same year. Macmillian’s works tend to be based off of his Scottish heritage, his Christian faith, or other political motivations. Britannia is one of Macmillian’s more well-known pieces that has gotten him to become one of the United Kingdom’s most prestigious composers that is currently alive. This piece

Igor Stravinsky’s ballet The Rite of Spring is a representation of his Russian roots and everything that he and his culture celebrated. Stravinsky managed to bring an earthy and wild tone to an orchestra that audiences were used to being so elegant and high class. The symbol of spring to the Russian culture represents their new year with the revival of the crops and unity that was crucial to living. Embodying the gathering of people with their relationship with the Earth, Stravinsky brought music

Throughout this course, the composers we studied all had different approached to creating music, and that is why many of them are well known today. The three most notable composers who combine unusual elements in their music were Frank Zappa, John Cage, and Pamela Z. Frank Zappa was an American artist who had no desire to fit into a single style of music, and he had no interest in creating music for cultural conventions. He created music in the manners he saw fit. His music has influence from rock

Russian Negotiation Report (Director of the Archives) 1. What, in general, did you learn about negotiation from the simulation? What surprised you? What would you do differently? The pub was chosen to be the place to meet. It was meant to be a friendly place with drinks so that barriers would be broken. Of course, given it was just a simulation and we actually knew each other as friends, I’m guessing the real world scenario would be slightly different, or at least the effect of