sentences:  He pioneered the first major Broadway production in Russia ("42nd Street", Moscow 2001-2002); and the first Broadway musical in China as a joint production with the China Ministry of Culture ("Rent", 2005-2007 featuring the Broadway cast with Karen Mok); as well as the Blues Brothers International Tour; and several international jazz, music and theatre festivals, including Chuck Berry's international tour of 50 Years of Rock 'N Roll.As artistic director of the Philharmonia Europa, he brought Eastern European (mainly Ukrainian) musicians together with an American cast for a two-year North American tour of Troika/Columbia Artists Management's "The Music of Andrew Lloyd Webber", starring Michael Bolton.He produced "The Gathering" on Broadway, a play about a Holocaust survivor's personal struggle in coming to terms with the next generation of Jews and Germans, starring Hal Linden; and a new musical comedy based on Anton Chekhov's "The Seagull" for the 2005 New York Theater Festival (with the Russian composer Alexander Zurabin, and American director Lewis J. Stadlin); as well as a production of the Peking Opera's "The Monkey King", at the Lincoln Center.