CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. Background on elements of traditional Russian music, with a focus on the balalaika and accordion. Students perform their own adaptations of ...

The largest Russian folk instrument orchestra outside the former Soviet Union is based in D.C., and has performed for more than 25 years The sound of the balalaika is evocative, mysterious and deeply ...

To this day there is no well-defined version regarding the origins of the balalaika. According to one version, it was conceived in Russia; a different version insists it was borrowed from neighboring ...

Like many of their compatriots, musicians Zhenya Kolykhanov and Sergey Vaschenko emigrated from Russia after the fall of the Soviet Union in the early 1990s. They have since established themselves in ...

The Arizona Balalaika Orchestra celebrates its 30th anniversary this weekend in concerts that include appearances by the Rusyny Dancers, Sons of Orpheus and celebrated Russian domrist Alexander ...

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