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...heavily romantic Symphony in B minor by Borodin, whose musical expression is starker and more rough-hewn than Liszt's, but similar in its unrestrained and often pompous emotionality, was sympathetically interpreted by the orchestra. Borodin often employs thick brass and woodwind textures in his scores, and the playing of these sections was particularly good. The objectionable thing here is the music itself, specifically the first movement, which is little more than the reiteration, ad nauseam, of a single motive. The rest of the symphony, although often cumbersome and awkward, is better...
...music for the picture was patched together from themes by Alexander Borodin. Most of it has an annoyingly sugary flavor, even the best song, Stranger in Paradise. Nevertheless, the score remains one of the better parts of a discouraging production. But in the last analysis, there is only one reason why anyone looking for entertainment should go to see Kismet--it is easier to get to than any other movie in town...
...Keel, as the poet who goes from verse to better at the Wazir's court, cuts a tolerable fine figure in Mesopotamian laundry, and he sings like a baritone bulbul. Ann Blyth (see MILESTONES) is the girl and Vic Damone the boy. The music is borrowed din from Borodin, and except for Stranger in Paradise, it sounds like routine Tin Pan Allah. The incidental decorations are eye-filling, though-particularly an albino peacock that holds his end up with more style than most of the chorus girls show...
Soon Malraux was back in Indo-China, seeking fresh testing places for his soul, and "something outside himself" in revolutions. He organized the "Young Annam" movement, then moved on to Canton. There he met Mikhail Borodin, Russian adviser to China's revolutionaries. Malraux in 1925 helped organize the Canton general strike aimed at British Hong Kong and directed propaganda for the Communist wing of the Kuomintang. He lingered on in China, was probably in Shanghai shortly after the Communist uprising in 1927. Between revolutions, he wandered the world, from India to Japan, from Central Asia...
Tossing in short and sometimes amusing sketches of Soviet leaders, from mustachioed old Marshal Budenny to Bulganin and Khrushchev, Soloviev has written the livelier book. But Borodin's roughly phrased and unrepentant witness is the more telling testimonial to the horrors of Soviet life, not the least of which is that it destroys the victim's sense of horror...