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Alexandre Constantinovitch Glazounov is the last survivor of the late great Russian school of composition. Born in St. Petersburg 64 years ago, the son of a bookseller, he was taught music by Mily Balakirev and Nicolai Rimsky-Korsakov, both members of the famed Russian "Five."* He himself won early notice with his startling memory. When Alexander Borodin died, the overture to Prince Igor was nowhere to be found, but Glazounov had once heard Borodin play it on the piano and was able to reconstruct it entirely from memory. Aged 16, Glazounov had finished his own first symphony. Liszt liked...
...Balakirev, Rimsky-Korsakov, Borodin, Moussorgsky and César Cui-five famed followers of Michail Glinka, who first turned his back on Western music, took inspiration from Russian legends, folk tunes...
Great Russian writers are Gogol, Tolstoy, Turgeniev, Dostoievsky-products all of the first days when Russia dared declare herself artistically, when French frippery first seemed foolish and the longings of the Slavic soul important. Great Russian composers are Rimsky-Korsakov, Borodin, Moussorgsky. They too with Glinka. Balakirev and Cui were pioneers in the school of realism. Yet compared with the less Russian Tchaikovsky their fame has spread so slowly that even today outside Russia Moussorgsky is known for his Boris Godounov alone and that in the refined version of Rimsky-Korsakov made popular by Basso Feodor Chaliapin...
...Mignon" Thomas Intermezzo from "Goyescas" Grandados Ballet Suite, "Sylvia" Delibes a Les Chasseresses b Intermezzo et Valse lente c Pizzicati d Cortege de Bacchus Suite from "A Midsummer Night's Dream" Mendelssohn a Overture b Scherzo c Wedding March Symphonic Poem, "Dause Macabre" Saint-Saens Oriental Fantasy, "Islamey" Balakirev Waltz, "By the Beautiful Blue Danube" Strauss Marche Slave Tchaikovsky
...Pops Concert at Symphony Hall tonight is as follows: Overture to "Semiramide" Rossini Minuet Boccherini Three Dances from "Cephalus and Procris" Gretry Mottl Islamey, Oriental Fantasy (Orchestrated by Casella) Balakirev Introduction and Processional from "Le Con d'Or" Rimsky-Korsakov Intermezzo from "Khovantchina," Moussorgsky "La Valse," Choregraphic Poem Ravel Ballot Suite, "Sylvia" Delibes Fifth Hungarian Dance Brahms Magic Fire Music from "The Valkyrie" Wagner