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During the week of May 8, 2006, composer Gary Belshaw’s ninth commission, Victory Day [День Победы] Overture for Symphonic Wind Ensemble, received three performances in Russia. The composer toured with the Wayland Baptist University Pioneer Band during Victory Day celebrations by invitation of the International Fine Arts Institute and the Russian Ministry of Culture. The Russian premiere of the work was presented in the Grand Hall of the Moscow (State) Conservatory, where Tchaikovsky, Glazunov, Khachaturian, and Shostakovich taught composition, and on the same stage where Van Cliburn won the first Tchaikovsky Piano Competition in 1958.
The view from the stage of the Grand Hall of the Moscow State Conservatory, May 9, 2006, taken during rehearsals just prior to the Russian premiere of Victory Day [День Победы] Overture
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