Word: borodine
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...late great Russian school of composition. Born in St. Petersburg 64 years ago, the son of a bookseller, he was taught music by Mily Balakirev and Nicolai Rimsky-Korsakov, both members of the famed Russian "Five."* He himself won early notice with his startling memory. When Alexander Borodin died, the overture to Prince Igor was nowhere to be found, but Glazounov had once heard Borodin play it on the piano and was able to reconstruct it entirely from memory. Aged 16, Glazounov had finished his own first symphony. Liszt liked it, played it at Weimar. Glazounov's career...
...same time, Professor A. N. Holcombe '06 of the Government Department will deliver a course of six lectures on the spirit of the Chinese Revolution. Sun-Yat-Sen and the spirit of democracy, Borodin and Bolshevism, Chiang Kai-sek and militarism, Feng Yu-hsiang and religion, T. V. Soong and capitalism, and C. T. Wang and modern science will be among the characters discussed...
Under the auspices of the Bussey Institution, Professor Nikolsi A. Borodin, formerly Dean of the Department of Fish Culture and Fisheries, Petrograd Agricultural College, begins a series of lectures on "Biology as Applied to Fisheries and Fish Culture" today at 4 o'clock, in Room 402 of the Museum of Comparative Zoology on Oxford Street...
Professor Nikolai A. Borodin, formerly of the Petrograd Agricultural College, will give an illustrated lecture, today, at 4 o'clock, in room 402, of the Museum of Comparative Zoology. The lecture, presented under the auspices of the Bussey Institution, will be on two subjects: "Biology as Applied to Fisheries and Fish Culture" and "Fisheries...
...little is known of it, so little of the man himself, that to many the new biography by Oskar von Riesemann will be news entirely. The story is of a young aristocrat who left military service to become a government clerk that he might have more time for music. Borodin remembered him in the early days as a foppish fellow who played bits from Trovatore and Traviata but that pretty stage passed swiftly. A peasant streak came out. Moussorgsky loved Russia and its history. He loved the people and the soil whence they came. He would put them...