Word: borodine
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...some 80 years Russian music had been strongly influenced by "The Five"- César Cui, an engineer; Modest Mussorgsky (Boris Godunov), a government clerk and famed tosspot; Alexander Borodin (Prince Igor), a doctor; Nicolas Rimsky-Korsakov, a naval officer; Mily Balakirev, a professional musician. In opposition to the international style of Tchaikovsky, "The Five" believed that the source of Russian music should be Russian-folk songs and church music. Igor Stravinsky (Petrouchka, The Fire Bird) continued this nationalist tradition, though he later abandoned it for severe and arid abstractions...
Alexander Hertz, conductor, composer, and critic will speak at a meeting of the Symphony Club tonight at 8 o'clock in the Music Building. The subject of his talk will be "The Music of Gliere and Borodin...
Once they were just 25 amateurs, sawing and whuffing under the baton of a music-store proprietor. Last week they were still partly amateur. But with near-professional gusto, in the final concert of its season, the El Paso Symphony bounced through a professional program: Delius, Tchaikovsky, Borodin, the Beethoven first symphony and-with an imported professional soloist, Violinist Henry Temianka -the Lalo Symphonic Espagnole...
...Some others: Beethoven, Debussy, Borodin, Charpentier, Leoncavallo, Mascagni...
Friday Evening 7:30"Concert Master": Borodin: Poloveisian Dances from Prince Igor. Rimsky-Korsakov: Capriceto Espagnol. Tehaikovsky: Nutcracker Suite. 8:30 Musical Quiz Show, with Bill Ernst '41, Newbold Landon '42, Ben Hazard '42, and Lyman Snow '42. 9:00 Nine O'Clock Jump. 9:30 A Case for Non-Intervention: Jordan M. Whitelaw '42. 9:45 "Crimson Concert Hall": Gluck: Alcest Overture and "Divinites du Styx." Wagner: Tanuhauser, "Dick Teure Balle." Brahma: Symphony No. 4. 10:45 News...