Donald Macleod explores the life and music of Aram Khachaturian, whose famous Sabre Dance was once the most frequently played piece of music in the world. Khachaturian's highly-colourful scores led ...

Pacific Ballet Dance Theatre (PBDT), Natasha Middleton, Artistic Director, will present "THE BEST OF KHACHATURIAN," an evening of ballet and instrumental music written by iconic Armenian composer Aram ...

Aram Khachaturian's ballet, Gayaneh, tells a love story set on an Armenian collective. The Philadelphia Orchestra, under the direction of Eugene Ormandy, plays excerpts from the ballet suite. Here are ...

The best-known piece by Armenian composer Aram Khachaturian is the high-tension, catchy and rhythmically insistent Sabre Dance from his ballet, Gayane. It was first produced in Perm in 1942 and ...

Aram Khachaturian (June 6 1903 – May 1, 1978) was a Soviet Armenian composer. Alongside Sergei Prokofiev and Dmitri Shostakovich, Khachaturian is sometimes called one of the three "titans" of Soviet ...

emerges from the conversation -- Aram Khachaturian. “In the United States, we know his work best through vaudeville acts,” said Kassakhian, referring to Khachaturian’s “Sabre Dance,” a vaudeville ...

Subscribe to The New Criterion’s podcast series via Apple or Google. Jay presents a program of music by Aram Khachaturian. You get the “Sabre Dance,” sure, from the ballet Gayane. But plenty more, too ...

Beethoven had his 65-minute Ninth Symphony, Bach his two-hour B Minor Mass. But for Soviet Composer Aram Khachaturian, a three-minute piece of tuneless orchestral blooey has been enough to establish a ...