Word: borodin
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Teacher's Pet. Giving up the soft life of a Moscow student, with its "party spouses" and anticapitalist polemics, Ho set out for China under the name of Nguyen Ai Quoc (roughly, "Smith the Patriot"), as agitator and translator for Stalin's agent Mikhail Borodin. Their mission: to penetrate the Kuomintang and train Communist can bo (cadres) to infiltrate French Indo-China. At Canton's Whampoa Military Academy, Ho demonstrated his skills as a disciplinarian. Any student-agitator who failed to show sufficient diligence was promptly betrayed to the French when he infiltrated Viet Nam. Most...
...MESLAY (June 28-July 4), near Tours, uses as an auditorium a massive barn built by monks in 1220. The excellent acoustics of the barn's oak and chestnut structure will set off performances by Russian Pianist Sviatoslav Richter, Moscow's Borodin Quartet, and London's Royal Opera singing Britten's Curlew River...
...Fascism, was written in 1960 and is daringly monochromatic: three of the five movements are largo, and the often-repeated main theme changes only from a moan into a sigh. Even the joyful sections seem to shift into a remembrance of gaiety long past. A subtle performance by the Borodin String Quartet, which the U.S.S.R. will send on a first visit to the U.S. in October...
...last week seemed miles away. But once he began conducting, Seiji Ozawa caught every eye. As exhilarating as the final accelerando of Tchaikovsky's Fourth Symphony were the dancelike body movements with which Ozawa conducted it. His expressive left hand seemed everywhere, searching out the lyrical underpinnings of Borodin's Second. He found them, and New York critics unanimously agreed that musically little Seiji was a giant in the making...
...coffee be will served. The recorded music schedule for Saturday afternoon is: Thompson...Suit for Oboe, clarinet, viola, Jongen...Concerto, op. 24 Beethoven...Sonate No. 15 in Major (pastorals) Op. 28. Bizet Symphon No.1 in C Major. ...Concerto for Oboe and in D Minor and F. Borodin Quartet No. 2 in D Major. The recorded music schedule Sunday afternoon is as is follows: Rangstrom...King Eric's Divertimento Elegia co for Holst...The Perfect Fool, Suite...