1.   The orchestra will be at the Festival Hall tonight, performing a selection of works by Russian composers.

2.   Among the waterlogged furniture and empty liquor bottles are portraits of Soviet war heroes and workbooks in which pupils painstakingly copied scores written by Russian composers.

3.   But Russian composer Dmitri Shostakovich, by virtue of the number of recordings and the consistent way his works are programmed for concerts, must always be considered.

4.   It is interesting that his vocabulary here resembles theoretical writings of the Russian composer Alfred Schnittke.

5.   Next season, the New York Philharmonic will devote a week to the Russian composer Sofia Gubaidulina.

6.   One clue came from the case of Russian composer Dmitri Shebalian, who suffered a stroke.

7.   One can believe that such a synthesis would have occurred only to a Russian composer without buying into the biology-is-destiny mystique of nationalism.

8.   Scrupulous care and rationality from a great French conductor have made clear the sensual if somewhat mad beauties of a Russian composer in a recording from Deutsche Grammophon.

9.   Sofia Gubaidulina would figure on any short list of important present-day Russian composers.

10.   This one is to music by the Russian composer Alfred Schnittke.