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Sat 05 May 2010Bringing the divine to Drogheda
For Sofia Gubaidulina, music and spirituality are inseparable, with one informing her passion for the other. MICHAEL DERVANmeets the leading Russian composer as she prepares for her first performance in Ireland
SOFIA GUBAIDULINA was born in 1931 in Chistopol in what was then the Tatar Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic, now the Republic of Tatarstan. She grew up in the republic’s capital, Kazan, which is situated is some 800km east of Moscow, where the Volga and Kazanka rivers meet. Kazan provided her with the sort of music education you might expect in the capital city of any country.
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