Modest Mussorgsky was a Russian composer and a member of “the Mighty Handful” (Mussorgsky, Mily Balakirev, César Cui, Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, and Alexander Borodin), a group of composers who sought to create a specifically Russian style of music. As part of this goal, much of Mussorgsky’s wor
Jean Sibelius was a Finnish composer, best known for his seven Symphonies, his Violin Concerto, and his tone poems Finlandia and The Swan of Tuonela. Although many critics decried Sibelius’s work as too conservative, he still created a unique style with economical, logical construction and sparse o
Alberto Savinio, born Andrea Francesco Alberto de Chirico, was an Italian writer, painter and composer, brother of the more widely known Giorgio De Chirico.
FILM. VIDEO. THEATER. Vivian Giourousis (VIV G) is a Filmmaker and Performing Arts educator. She works with traditional narrative cinema as well as experimental genres. VIV G is highly attuned to the visual grammar of filmmaking, and acutely aware of gesture and movement inherent in the human aspe