In 1971, while working as the conductor and music director of the military Song and Dance Ensemble of the Moscow Region’s Air Defense Forces, Ion Melnik started to work on the opera “Rada”. However, that same year, he was invited by Admiral G. N. Holostyakov to join the Theater of Front Novels, as it’s music director. This transition interrupted his work to which he never returned again.
The orchestral work named “Sadness” was composed in late 2001 and was dedicated to the victims of the 9/11 tragedy.
Orchestral parts may be ordered from “Compozitor • Saint Petersburg” Publishing House
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