Sketches Found For Sibelius’s Lost Eighth Symphony

“This was not supposed to be possible. Sibelius’s Seventh Symphony was completed in 1924. He worked on an Eighth, for quite some time in fact, without anything material appearing (in spite of considerable public expectation, on both sides of the Atlantic), and then in the 1940s, something happened that should have put a full stop to the matter” – a bonfire.

Neo-Academicism, Russia’s Last 20th-Century Avant-Garde Art Movement

“Fearing modern art’s encroachment on artistic traditions,” Leningrad avant-garde leader Timur Novikov, during the 1990s, “called for a return to ancient Greco-Roman ideals of beauty and harmony. But rather than simply reproducing classical motifs, Novikov [and his fellows] … adapted them to the 20th century with new media and irreverent interpretations.”