Valery Gergiev orders Russians to embrace Stravinsky
mainThe Mariinsky Theatre chief and Putin confidant has declared 2017 to be Stravinsky Year.
He said more than 90 percent of Stravinsky’s works were unperformed in Russia and now was the time to remedy the omission.
Why now?
Perhaps because a certain local event in 1917 led Stravinsky to be boycotted in his homeland for half a century.
Gergiev made no mention of that event.
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