The ivory keys have lost their master. Yuri Slesarev, a pianist whose fingers danced like winter sunlight across concert halls, has taken his final bow at 78. A professor at Moscow’s revered conservatory and a national artist, his legacy is etched not just in sheet music, but in the very air of Russian culture—now heavier with his absence.
News of his passing rippled through the music world like a dissonant chord left unresolved. The Central Music School—where future virtuosos are forged—confirmed it quietly, as if whispering to avoid waking the maestro from eternal rest. His life was a sonata: sometimes stormy, often sublime, always resonant.
Elsewhere, grief wears leather and amplifiers. Igor Molchanov, once the thunder behind drums for metal legends "Aria" and "Master," has left the stage in Belgium. Two artists, different rhythms—one symphony of loss.
