Month: July 2019

wo outstanding films, two outstanding musicals: Andrew Lloyd Webber’s “Evita” (after Mary Main’s “The Woman with the Whip”) and Frederick Loewe’s “My Fair Lady” (after Bernard Shaw’s “Pygmalion”). One…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wWVq79zz_VA12:57“Petersburg, the Black Dog” (“Чёрный пёс Петербург”, 1993) is arguably the best concert album in the history of 1990s Russian post-Soviet rock. Jurij Ševčuk is at the peak…

Read SerhijŽadan’s “Vorošilovgrad” today. A young man, Gera, leads a strange lazy life in Kharkiv (Ukraine), right after the collapse of the Soviet Union. He works as an “independent expert”…

You had this LP when a kid, hadn’t you? Or maybe your parents still keep it in their vinyl collection? “Zodiaks” is the legendary Soviet Latvian…

Andrew Lloyd Webber has always been offended that no one treated him as a “serious” composer. Only later did everyone understand that musicals are among the…

These two books have forever changed and reshaped my world, and I am positive everyone who thinks of themselves as of an intellectual should read…

For W.L. This is what my long-sought love sounds like. I am on my way between Moscow and Dzerzhinsk, and here is what I have…