New York's Musical Courier was not so far from the mark when it reported in 1897: "Rimsky-Korsakov – what a name! It suggests fierce whiskers stained with vodka". Life and Music Rimsky began his ...

The music they dance to includes Debussy’s Syrinx, Bach’s 5th Brandenburg Concerto and Rimsky-Korsakov’s The Flight of the Bumblebee. Designed and choreographed to actively engage children ...

Nikolay Rimsky-Korsakov and Pyotr Tchaikovsky TOKYO, April 22./TASS/. The annual Festival of Russian Culture in Japan has opened with a concert of soloists from St. Petersburg’s House of Music ...

Despite the meagre amount of his music heard regularly today, Rimsky-Korsakov’s place in Russian music cannot be overstated. Compared with the music of Tchaikovsky and Rachmaninov, a meagre amount of ...