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Rimsky-Korsakov and His World

The 29th Bard Music Festival examines Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov (1844–1908), and sets out to solve the Rimsky-Korsakov riddle: Why does the composer remain so woefully underappreciated outside his homeland, despite the paramount part he played in defining the style we now recognize as Russian?

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