Word: borodin
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TODAY IC Captain, MarchSousa Sicillian Vespers, Overture Verdi Liobestraum Liszt-Herbert Borodin, Ballet N. Tcherepnin Largo Handel Dio Fiedermaus, Overture Strauss TOMORROW Carmen, Prelude Bizet A Midsummer Night's Dream, Scherzo Mendelssohn The Doluge, Prelude Saint-Saens Ballet of the Hours, Cloconda Ponchielli Artists' Life, Waltz Strauss Bolero Ravel
...aristocratic Venice and of Venice, roistering and plebeian. The audience applauded it cordially and Pizzetti, a little, worried-looking man, took bows from the stage. But on the same program Toscanini had placed Mozart's D Major Symphony. Wagner's Tannhauser overture and the skirling Bacchanale music, Borodin's Prince Igor dances. Because these things had greater substance, Toscanini attained with them effects which, ironically, set the worthy efforts of the guest of honor sadly in the background...
...that time his thoughts were on music-on the sort that a small Jewish band had played on his father's estate when he was a child, on Russian folk themes which were forming the basis of the output of Balakvirev, Cui, Moussorgsky and Borodin, whose group he later joined. He even wrote music during his maritime period (he had always studied as much as his limited opportunities allowed) but it was uneven, unpolished. When he finally abandoned the navy, he studied unceasingly until he became an adept craftsman. It is related that he procured all kinds of instruments...
...complete schedule of the lectures of these two professors is as follows: by Holcombe; "Sun Yat-Sen and The Spirit of Democracy", tonight; "Borodin and the Spirit of Bolshevism", Friday; "Feng YuHsiang and the Religious Spirit", next Tuesday: "Chiang Kai-Shek and the Military Spirit", Friday, January 17; "T. V. Soong and the Spirit of Modern Capitalism", Tuesday, January 21; "C.T. Wang and the Spirit of Modern Science", Friday, January...
...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...