Navigating Soviet Waters: The Life and Works of Aram Khachaturian

🎶 Support the channel: 🎼 https://lentovivace.bandcamp.com 🎼   / classicalnerd   This was requested by Saltarello, Quicksilverfan69, James King, Samuel Couto Flute, Dario Cotti-Gregoriadi, Anna King, Marlon Sullivan, and Karl Seminaro. See all requests at http://lentovivace.com/classicalnerd.... 📚 Sources/further reading: “Aram Khachaturian and Socialist Realism: A Reconsideration” by Joseph Schultz: http://www.doiserbia.nb.rs/img/doi/14... “Aram Khachaturian (1903-1978): A Retrospective” by David Z. Kushner (Professor Emeritus of Musicology, University of Florida), Athens Journal of Humanities & Arts, Volume 5, Issue 4: https://www.athensjournals.gr/humanit... “National Identity Construction in Music: A Case Study of Aram Khachaturian” by Brigitta Davidjants: https://resmusica.ee/wp-content/uploa... “Chamber Music in the Early Twentieth Century: Features of Aram Khachaturian’s ‘Trio for Clarinet, Violin, and Piano in G Minor’ and Béla Bartók’s ‘Contrasts for Violin, Clarinet, and Piano’” by Man Wang (DMA Dissertation, University of Kansas, 2018): https://kuscholarworks.ku.edu/bitstre... “The Significance of Aram Khachaturian and His Piano Concerto” by Sarah M. Dardarian (DMA Dissertation, University of Western Ontario, 2018): https://ir.lib.uwo.ca/cgi/viewcontent... “The Music That Shaped a Nation: The Role of Folk Music, the Duduk, and Clarinet in the Works of Contemporary Armenian Composers Aram Khachaturian and Vache Sharafyan” by Anastasia Christofakis (DM Dissertation, Florida State University, 2005) “Politics of Ethnogenesis in the USSR and After” by Victor A. Shnirelman (Bulletin of the National Museum of Ethnology, Vol. 30 No. 1, 2005) https://www.oxfordmusiconline.com/gro... http://www.khachaturian.am/eng/biogra... https://www.britannica.com/biography/... ---------- Classical Nerd is a video series covering music history, theoretical concepts, and techniques, hosted by composer, pianist, and music history aficionado Thomas Little. ---------- Music: Aram Khachaturian: Poem (1927) [original upload: x11pazHbB6g] Thomas Little: Dance! #2 in E minor, performed by Rachel Fellows, Michael King, and Bruce Tippette Aram Khachaturian: Trio for Violin, Clarinet and Piano (1932) [original upload: ys1W_Yhygvg] Aram Khachaturian: Album for Children, Volume I (1947), performed by Sahan Arzruni [original upload: ZTg1jwGKkyk] Aram Khachaturian: Adagio of Spartacus and Phrygia from Spartacus Suite No. 2 (1955), performed by the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Albrecht Mayer [original upload: mH13v2yy_6A] ---------- Contact Information: Questions and comments can be directed to: nerdofclassical [at] gmail.com Tumblr:   / classical-nerd   Facebook:   / classicalnerd   Instagram:   / the_classical_nerd   ---------- All images and audio in this video are for educational purposes only and are not intended as copyright infringement. If you have a copyright concern, please contact me using the above information.