Word: borodine
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Trotsky (see cut). Even for a "coco" (as French politicians call the Stalinists), Ho has had a colorful history. Onetime photographer, cabin boy and socialist, he took the cure in Moscow, subsequently turned up (1924) at the Soviet Consulate in Boston, and later (1927) as an aide to Michael Borodin, who, during the Chinese Nationalist Revolution, was Russia's Grey Eminence advising the Kuomintang. Ho has a War Minister named Vo Nguyen-giap, who hates the French, because, he says, his wife perished in a French jail...
Russia's musica, tradition is still less than a century old: the "father" of Russian music, Michael Ivanovitch Glinka, died in 1857. Yet it already boasts some of music's most famous names-such pre-Soviet romantics as Tchaikovsky, Mussorgsky, Borodin, Rimsky-Korsakov. The younger Soviet composers are generally more gifted and expert than those of the U.S., less jaded than those of Western Europe. Western Europe's only living first-raters, Germany's Richard Strauss and Finland's Jan Sibelius, are aged men whose best work is already a generation...
...Borodin: Prince Igor (artists and orchestra of the Bolshoi State Theater, U.S.S.R.; Asch, 10 sides). A top-drawer company, featuring communal teamwork instead of star soloists, distinguishes this streamlined Moscow recording of a pre-Soviet opera. Well recorded on unbreakable vynalite. Performance: good...
...comrades and the army's political commissars. From Canton the three men marched together on the famed Northern Expedition (1926-27), which gave republican China its first taste of unity. They split when Chiang broke with the Kuomintang's Communist wing and its Russian boss, shrewd Michael Borodin...
WTAG was Russian virtually all day, all week. Its 37 musical programs concentrated on Tchaikovsky, Rimsky-Korsakov, Borodin, Moussorgsky, Shostakovich and Prokofiev. Women listening to the Modern Kitchen program jotted down new recipes for beef a la Strogonov, flounder grecheski, pickled herring, borsch, and honey beet jam.* Speakers on WTAG's weekly Forum broadcast from Clark University were Russian Vice-Consul Stepan Z. Apresian and Cornell University's Professor of Russian Literature Ernest J. Simmons. The one radio stunt of the week that didn't come off was an address by Moscow Novelist S. Sergeyev-Tsensky...