January 2014 update

january 2014 update from Ljova

Protected: a long overdue Ljova and the Kontraband post-tour update

Reverse genrectomy

Revisiting an older post about genre, finding out that Genre in music employs people, creates niche markets and gives us something to talk about.

Joy & Madness: Three Weeks in the Life of Lev ‘Ljova’ Zhurbin (a diary for the Journal of the American Viola Society)

for several uniquely varied weeks in April-May 2013, Ljova kept a diary at the request of the Journal of the American Viola Society. Read the article

midsummer update

What we’re doing to the “Rite of Spring”

a preview of "The First Rite", Ljova's arrangement of the folk sources from Stravinsky's "Rite of Spring"

Ljova and the Kontraband are going to WOMEX

a special announcement about Ljova and the Kontraband going to

Quitting Facebook – one month later

Ljova writes about his experience quitting Facebook, and the associated guilt trip

The Gift of Music — a case for physical media

musings about the gift of music

in memoriam Ada Zhurbin

a few words about my grandmother, Ada, who passed today