Aram Khachaturian’s music was dismissed by many in the 1950s and 60s as being lightweight. But this year – the year he would have been 100 years old, “the pendulum of serious music has swung to the other extreme. The realities of Soviet life and politics are better known, and the personal histories of artists are understood as having been more complex. The time may be ripe to take another look at Khachaturian’s music.”