Adam Behan, Author at VAN Magazine https://van-magazine.com An independent online classical music magazine Tue, 31 May 2022 18:59:35 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://van-magazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/cropped-van-logo-square-32x32.png Adam Behan, Author at VAN Magazine https://van-magazine.com 32 32 192294250 The Pianist who Killed Stalin https://van-magazine.com/mag/maria-yudina/ Thu, 19 Nov 2020 03:39:00 +0000 http://maria-yudina Russian pianist Maria Yudina with a skull

In his 2017 film “The Death of Stalin,” Armando Iannucci links the titular event to a letter penned by pianist Maria Yudina: “Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin, you have betrayed our nation and destroyed its people. I pray for your end and ask the Lord to forgive you. Tyrant.” In Iannucci’s history-as-farce, the dictator reads this note […]

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