Russian Life Today

Russian Schools

Russian Music

Russian Politics

7th Grade Workshop in GeographySouth Junior High SchoolLawrence Public Schools (USD 497)March 26 and April 29, 2008

Presented by Jon C. GiullianLibrarian for Slavic & Eurasian Studies

University of Kansas Libraries

RUSSIAN MUSIC

Folk Music

Classical Music

Bards

Legends of Russian Rock

Modern Pop

MUSIC: Russian Folk

The Firebird

Balalaika

Quartet

Russian folk music & dance – “Kalinka”

MUSIC: Russian Classical

Пётр Чайковский(Piotr Chaikovskii) Peter Tchaikovsky

What did he compose?Russian Dance – folk Russian Dance – guitarRussian Dance – percussion Russian Dance – orchestral (5:30-6:37)

MUSIC: Russian Bards

Владимир Высоцкий

(Vladimir Vysotskii)

Songs:

Москва-Одесса (Moskva-Odessa)

Moscow OdessaЯ не люблю (Ya ne liubliu)

I don’t like/love

Машина Времени (Mashina Vremeni) Time Machine

Songs:

Улетай (Uletai)Fly Away

MUSIC: Russian Rock

MUSIC: Russian Pop

Андрей Губин(Andrei Gubin)

Born: Ufa, Russia 1974

Songs:

Мальчик-Бродяга (Mal’chik-Brodyaga)

Boy-Wanderer

Мурат Насыров (Murat Nasyrov)Born: Alma-Ata, Kazakhstan, 1969

Died: Moscow, Russia, 2007

Ethnicity - Uyghur

Songs:

Я Это Ты (Ya Eto Ty)

I -- It is you

MUSIC: Russian Pop

MUSIC: Russian Rock

ДДТ (DDT)Юрий Шевчук

(Yurii Shevchuk)

Songs:

Pождённые в СССP (Rozhdyonnye v SSSR)

Born in the USSR

Пропавший без вестu (Propavshii bez vesti)

Lost without a trace

MUSIC: Russian Rock

ДДТ (continued)

Songs:

DDT in Chechnya 1 “They told us to go, and we went. Nobody needs this war! To this day I cannot understand what we are fighting for. That’s my personal opinion.”

DDT in Chechnya 2 Young soldiers from all over Russia