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In the mid-’80s, the experimental rock and roll group Vezhlivy Otkaz (which results in British as Polite Refusal) performed a hefty part in the forming of a music counterculture, artfully opposing not merely the state-sanctioned mainstream, but ubiquitous “underground” rock and roll that defined itself primarily with what it was …

Sviatoslav Knushevitsky was a Russian cellist from the Soviet period, regarded as the first choice from the Russian cello college and most widely known internationally as an associate from the so-called Oistrakh Trio. In his years as a child, Knushevitsky got cello lessons from his dad, Nikolai Knushevitsky. In 1922, …