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...View. But Leeds has had its troubles. Last February, two U.S. companies released identical recordings by the National Philharmonic and Bolshoi Theater choruses and orchestras of Shostakovich's Song of the Forests: only one of them was Leeds-licensed. A few months later, two companies brought out Violinist David Oistrakh's expert performance of the Brahms Double Concerto...
...famed Mariinsky Theater, began training her as a child. She made her first public appearance when she was eight. At 18, she completed her formal training, began as a soloist, and over the years danced her supple way to stardom in Leningrad and at Moscow's Bolshoi Theater, where she has been a top-ranking ballerina for six years. She has become famous for her roles in Swan Lake, Sleeping Beauty, Giselle, Romeo and Juliet. For her poetic warmth based on flawless technique, critics lucky enough to have seen her dance rank her with Pavlova...
Symphonic Selections, played by the Bolshoi Theater Orchestra. The selections include pieces by Balakirev, Mussorgsky, Liadov, Rimsky-Korsakov. Although the recording is not first-rate (it sounds a little like the sound track of a Russian film), the Bolshoi orchestra itself sounds hard to beat...
...within a month. Occasion: the opening session of the Supreme Soviet of the Russian Soviet Federated Socialist Republic, where the Vozhd listened for an hour and a half to the 1951 budget speech. His other sorties: two meetings of the All-Union Supreme Soviet, and a trip to the Bolshoi Theater to see a new opera, based on Novelist Elizar Maltsev's From the Depths of the Heart...
...Vigilantly guard the peace, the borders of our country and the creative work of our people [against] . . . the bandit interventionists in Korea!" The evening before, in the Bolshoi Theater, a select audience of top-level comrades & commissars heard Politburocrat Nikolai Bulganin compare the war in Korea with the civil war in Russia when the Allies unsuccessfully intervened against the Bolsheviks. Accusing the U.S. of instigating World War III with the aim of destroying the Soviet Union, Bulganin keynoted: "The Soviet people are able to defend . . . their homeland . . . with guns in hand...