The dark side of music is where Salt Lake-based violinist Katya Murafa's heart resides. The classically trained musician began playing the violin — and later piano — in Russia at age 7. At 18, she ...

After a period of eclipse following the revolution, the characteristic music of the Russian Gypsies has been revived on lines, it is claimed, more in accordance with its distinctive racial ...

The band ended with a jazz version of the Russian gypsy love ballad “Ochi Chernye” (“Dark Eyes”), finishing the night on a high note. Sagi, the virtuoso of the group, began the emotionally turbulent ...

Before the advent of the European Union and its open borders, long before Germany had been invaded by the Turks and France by the North Africans, two groups vied for the distinction of being the most ...

There’s something romantic about gypsies, more than just the steeped-in-tradition history and culture that’s lasted through the centuries. Sure, they plan boffo weddings with meringued-to-the-max ...

Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. Alexander Fursenko, who is an alumnus of Moscow Theatre and Music University, is ...

In Philadelphia, in Manhattan and over the radio, Conductor Leopold Stokowski had his Philadelphia Orchestra play all-Russian programs last week. Stravinsky, Skriabin, Prokohev and Moussorgsky are ...

“Building on the success of the first New York Gypsy Festival in 2005, the 2-week joyful and passionate Fiesta Romani is returning for its second installment between September 24 and October 8, 2006.

If you had told 12-year-old me that one day I would be able to listen to pretty much any song I wanted to on demand and also pull up the lyrics as fast as I could type the artist’s name and part of ...