ÜBER DIESEN PODCAST 🔗

Aktualisierungshäufigkeit:
every 8 days
Durchschnittliche Audiolänge:
18 minutes
Englisch
Vereinigte Staaten
14 Folgen
seit 21. November 2025
serial

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Dmitry Sitkovetsky is a Soviet-born violinist, transcriber, and conductor. In this series, he revisits his journey from a privileged musical upbringing within an oppressive society to the new life he forged as an émigré. Through his reflections — and the music that shaped him — his story unfolds ag…

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FRÜHERE EPISODEN

This chapter takes a behind-the-scenes look at a system that produced countless talents. Dmitry recalls his experiences with Soviet musical training.  Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/dsitkovetsky/YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@dmitrysitkovetskyThreads: https://www.threads.com/@dsitkovetskyF…

Chapter I: The Son Of

In this episode, Dmitry revisits his childhood – the first sounds of music in his mother’s womb, the early loss of his father and an audition with a prominent violin teacher.   Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/dsitkovetsky/YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@dmitrysitkovetskyThreads: https://www.…
Dmitry paints a portrait of a Brezhnev-era child’s double life: acting the part of model pioneer in front of teachers and rebelling the moment authority’s back turned — seeking out forbidden writers, music, and ideas.   This episode asks: How do you navigate a society where authority controls every…

Chapter IV: The Guru

A determined search for alternative lifestyles and opinions in the Soviet Union led the almost-18-year-old Dima to meet a man who presented himself as a spiritual guru, and  became a kind of father figure to him. What followed was an 8-year-long, deeply twisted relationship. Instagram: https://www.…

Chapter V: The Escape

A first-hand account of escaping Soviet Russia — complete with diversion, persuasion, and a whole lot of chutzpah. This episode was produced by Libo/Libo: https://libolibo.me/  Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/dsitkovetsky/YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@dmitrysitkovetskyThreads: https://www.…
Dmitry arrives at JFK International Airport and is immediately swept up in the whirlwind of artistic New York: Juilliard, auditions, and scraping together enough money to survive in the city. Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/dsitkovetsky/YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@dmitrysitkovetskyThread…
Dmitry remembers his firsts — first car, first movie, first concert. This episode is a reflection on the events that reshaped one refugee’s Soviet mindset. Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/dsitkovetsky/YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@dmitrysitkovetskyThreads: https://www.threads.com/@dsitkove…
Once there were two cousins. They were like salt and pepper. One had dark hair; the other was blond. One practiced the violin, while the other preferred the guitar. One left the country and started from scratch in the West; the other stayed in the USSR and pioneered Soviet art rock. They hadn’t spo…

Chapter IX: Bach

Dmitry explores the structure and content of this extraordinary work. Bonus story: how he spent the best two months of his musical life in the virtual company of Glenn Gould and J.S. Bach. Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/dsitkovetsky/YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@dmitrysitkovetskyThreads: …
Rechtliche Hinweise: Der auf dieser Seite eingebettete Podcast und das Bildmaterial stammen von Dmitry Sitkovetsky, das Eigentum seines Eigentümers ist und nicht mit Listen Notes, Inc. verbunden ist oder von diesen unterstützt wird.