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 ...

Like other audience members, I bet, I was waiting for the “Sabre Dance.” It came at 9:30 or so, two hours after curtain. We were attending Of Love and Rage, a new ballet, performed by the American ...

Those leaving a Washburn University concert Thursday night at White Concert Hall likely likely will do so with an earworm deep in their brains. The last music slated to be played at the 7:30 p.m.

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 ...

The Music: Khachaturian’s two best-known ballets are almost too full of dazzling folk melodies from his native Armenia. Yet for all his music’s fecundity and the immediate appeal of Adagio from ...

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 ...