Word: borodine
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Typical numbers were the Tchaikovsky Romance, Vassilenko Oriental Dance, Borodin Chorus from Prince Igor, Liadov Russian Folk Songs and Rimsky-Korsakov's Flight of the Bumblebee (with Ivanov playing the part of the Queen Bee). Liadov's simple Russian songs were melancholy and lovely even on these unsimple Russian machines...
Simons will be soloist in the performance of Beethoven's First Piano Concerto. In addition, George Brown will conduct the combined orchestras in Mozart's Symphony Number 35 (the Haffner Symphony) and in works of Rimsky-Korsakov and Borodin...
...make Russian music Russian-genial, bush-bearded Nikolai Andreievich Rimsky-Korsakov. The occasion was the 100th anniversary of his birth. The composer of Scheherazade and 15 operas (Coq d'Or, the Snow Maiden, etc.) was the most scholarly member of the famed "Five" (the others: Mussorgsky, Balakireff, Borodin, Cui) who in the '60s weaned Russian music from the influence of German Romanticism and Italian opera. He was also the author of important treatises on harmony and orchestration, the teacher of a whole generation of other Russian composers, the tireless performer of countless editorial and ghostwriting jobs...
...Borodin: Symphony No. 2 (Minneapolis Symphony, Dimitri Mitropoulos conducting; Columbia; 8 sides). The most popular of Borodin's exhilarating, lightweight Slavic symphonies handsomely played but harshly recorded...
...following evening, Symphony Hall heard one of the most varied and successful programs of the year, which included everything from Bach to Brahms, Strauss, Wolf and Borodin. If the before mentioned concert proved that unknown works can be a success, this proved that known quantities can be even more so. The Third Brandenburg Concerto in G Major is a tried and trusted quantity, although one might have wished for a few less strings than the Boston Symphony can throw into the fray at any time. Previously this year, more than competent performances of Thus Spake Zarathustra and Don Quixote were...