subway story
The kids and I walked into a subway car earlier this week, and a...
Plume - Tenth Anniversary
Ten years ago today, I composed and recorded “Plume”, which has become perhaps my...
Coming Clean on Creative Collaborations — Things I Didn’t Know
UPDATE: This was an April Fools' Day post. To the hundreds of you who...
Ljova's Barbes Residency - Sundays at 5
Dear Friends, I am supremely excited to let you know that for the next...
I Am The Warehouse (in praise of Bandcamp, part 2)
(originally written as a guest post on Norman Lebrecht's blog Slipped Disc, under the...
Music for Mother's Day
Dear Friends -- and welcome readers of the New York Times, If your experience...
An Invitation!
This post has been updated - take me to the updated post Dear Friends,...
January 2014 update
Dear Friends, Happy New Year! My apologies for not writing sooner - the...
a long overdue Ljova and the Kontraband post-tour update
Several months ago, my ensemble Ljova and the Kontraband ran a Kickstarter campaign to...
Reverse genrectomy
About a year and a half ago, I wrote a post suggesting that genre labels...
Joy & Madness: Three Weeks in the Life of Lev 'Ljova' Zhurbin (a diary for the Journal of the American Viola Society)
Earlier this spring, I was asked by the Journal of the American Viola Society...
midsummer update
Dear Friends, First off, an invite to a singular show you don't want to...
What we're doing to the "Rite of Spring"
What is this thing called Rite? Do you know your Rites? Rite on, spring...
Ljova and the Kontraband are going to WOMEX
Ljova and the Kontraband at Joe's Pub - photo by Pete Matthews / FeastofMusic.com...
Interview about Lullaby and Memory
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bJsd9j9pChs Ljova as interviewed by Jeffrey James, originally published on InternationalComposers.com in 2013. Republished...
Quitting Facebook - one month later
Ljova quitting Facebook If you ever try to quit Facebook, you'll head to...