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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...
...Petersburg from Paris he wanted to found a school. He hobnobbed with intellectuals; joined societies, shouted out his art theories, got an audience. He became first president of the first Russian art review Mir Iskusstva (Artistic World), which Serge Diaghilev edited. He designed the scenery for Alexander Borodin's Prince Igor, for Stanislavsky's production of Peer Gynt, for Stravinsky's Le Sacre du Printemps. For this last one he also wrote the libretto. Then came the Russian revolutions. His St. Petersburg became Petrograd, Leningrad. He hustled to New York (1920). In Manhattan he founded the Master...
...following program will be given at the Zionists Night concert at the Pops this evening at 8.15 o'clock: Coronation March from "The Prophet" Meyerbeer Suite from "Carmen" Bizet Polovisian Dances from "Prince Igor" Borodin Invitation to the Dance Weber Beriloz "Kol Nidrel" Bruch "Italin," Rhapsody Casella Overture to "Sakuntala" Goldmark Kammenoi Ostrow Ouverture Solennelle, "1812" Tehaikovsky
...clock, tonight: Overture to "H Matrimonio Segreto" Cimarosa Ballet Suite Gluck-Mottl Overture to "Matilde de Shabran" Rossini Overture to "Benvenuto Cellini" Berlioz "A Night on Bald Mountain" Moussorgsky Salome's Dance, from "Salome" Strauss Prelude to "Carmen" Bizet Entr'acte from "Messidor" Bruneau Polortsian Dances from "Prince Igor" Borodin...
...following program will be played at the Pops concert tonight, starting at 8.15 o'clock: French Military March Saint-Saens Ballet Suite, "Nutcracker" Tchaikovsky Overture to "Rienzi" Wagner Excerpts from "The Damnation of Faust" Berlioz On the Steppes of Central Asia Borodin "Fountains of Rome," symphonic poem Respigli Overture to "Le Maschere" Mascagni Dance of the Waves Catalani Overture to Silican Vespers Verdi