"Frankly, from the avant -garde era, there will be a few essays"
A student of the Mravinsky Kyivian Igor Blazhkov, who recently celebrated his eightieth anniversary, is known for the whole generation of Soviet music lovers as one of the main propagandists of “new music” in the USSR. He conducted the first performances of Schenberg, Weberne, Ives, Vraser, Volkonsky, corresponded with modern composers around the world, from Boulez to Stokhausen.