Word: borodin
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Chief function of the Pops concerts is to provide music for the fun of it, and last evening's Harvard night was an outstanding success from that point of view. The program was for the most part clever, rhythmical music entirely pleasant to listen to. The Borodin "Polevetskian Dances," the Cimarossa and the Gilbert and Sullivan choruses were especially effective. There was a strikingly small amount of froth on the program, in fact, the finale from Piston's "Suite for Orchestra," a vigorous movement, full of strongly dissonant counterpoint, was a little meaty, perhaps, for such a casual audience. This...
Monday Evening, May 15 Malcom Holmes, '28 Guest Conductor-- *"Pomp and Circumstance," MarchElgar *Polovetzkian Dances from "Prince Igor" Borodin Rumba Clair Leonard, '22 *Academic Festival Overture Brahms G. Wallace Woodworth '24. Guest Conductor Two Choruses from "Il Matrimonio Segreto" Cimarosa 1. Oh che gioja, che piacere 2. Per imbrogliar la testa Martinslied Hindemith Choruses from "The Birds" of Aristophanes John Knowles Paine (Written for the Harvard Classical Club, 1901) (1839-1906) Finale, from Suite for Orchestra Piston *Choruses from "Iolanthe" Sulivan The Harvard Glee Club Leroy Anderson, '29, Guest Cond. *Overture to "Die Fledermaus Strauss Harvard Sketches Leroy Anderson Lowell...
...Belief. The real and the imaginary have always been mixed in Malraux's novels. His first, The Conquerors, pictured revolution in Canton, followed the course of actual events, included real characters like Revolutionist Michael Borodin, Mao Tse-tung, head of the Chinese Soviets...
...Borodin: Dances of the Polovetzki Maidens, from Prince Igor (Philadelphia Orchestra, Leopold Stokowski conducting; Victor: 4 sides). Stokowski at his brilliant best...
...little-known expatriate life of Mexico City. By comparison with the post-War Bohemianism of Mexico City he describes, Greenwich Village during the same period seems as innocent as a kindergarten. Mexico City swarmed with shady refugees from Europe, was headquarters for big plotters like the fabulous Russian Borodin (alias Ginzberg), with whom Beals used to quarrel over Realpolitik and eugenics. Borodin, claims Beals, invited him to participate in a plot to recover a million dollars worth of Tsarist jewels which he had lost to a double-crossing German revolutionist in Haiti. Pugilist Jack Johnson, a favorite of the carousing...