http://standpointmag.co.uk Welcome to the Standpoint magazine, the culture and politics monthly en /node/2003 <!--paging_filter--><p>Last week in Verbier I was lucky enough to run into <a href="http://www.shchedrin.de/shchedrin_index_e.htm">Rodion Shchedrin and Maya Plisetskaya</a>. The couple have been at the forefront of their arts in Russia since the 1960s: she was possibly the greatest ballerina of her day (I suspect she could have knocked Fonteyn flat had she wished to) and he remains among the most prolific and dazzling of contemporary Russian composers. Therefore it's perhaps ironic that his most famous work - one that is played somewhere in the world almost every day - is his<em> Carmen Suite</em>, created especially for Maya and based on Bizet. <p><a href="/node/2003"><span>read more</span></a></p> /node/2003#comments Carmen Suite Fri, 07 Aug 2009 16:02:24 +0100 Jessica Duchen 2003 at http://standpointmag.co.uk