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...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...
...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...