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PBS to Air Program on the Benedictines of Mary Album ‘Lent at Ephesus' (De Montfort Music/Decca), No. 1 on Billboard Classical Chart
George Takei Beams Up with the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra for "Sci-Fi Spectacular" Program at Strathmore and Meyerhoff
Takei and the BSO are presenting "Sci-Fi Spectacular" from February 20-23, where the former will narrate over the latter's musical selections from Star Trek and the best of John Williams: E.T., Somewhere in Time, Star Wars and more. Ukrainian Unrest...or What the Late Nationalist Composer Mykola Vitaliyovych Lysenko Would Do to President Putin
Mykola Vitaliyovych Lysenko, the late Ukrainian composer, pianist and scholar, was lauded for his nationalism. He refused to write his operas in Russian, which were eventually banned by the czars in 1876.