Word: borodino
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...program due to Mr. Mickiewicz's illness) seemed at times to be pulling the music out of them. They responded superbly, singing with much power and involvement, and covering a range of emotions from deep melancholy to fierce patriotism. Songs of the steppes, the Volga, and the Battle of Borodino were for them as charged with emotion as they are for most Russians. The audience was infected with their spirit, and literally stomped them back on stage for the second encore...
...public world reverberates with social reforms, patriotism, the trumpeted, and trumped-up, goals of nations and of wars. In Tolstoy's view, these are vampires of abstraction that suck real blood. The pinnacle of abstraction, as he sees it, is the great hero Napoleon. While the battle of Borodino is clumsily enacted onstage like a mock-up war game with wooden soldiers and generals, Tolstoy pursues the point that Napoleon did not have the foggiest idea how the battle would come out, and only a fumbling control over its course...
...praising The Fox in the Attic. No one has caviled that Hughes, who was too young for combat in World War I and too old for combat in World War II, should have chosen to write about both. After all, Tolstoy wrote War and Peace a half-century after Borodino. Hughes himself sets his sights even higher; it occurred to him in the middle of World War II, he explains, that "if I turned my back on it, it was rather as if Homer had turned his back on the siege of Troy...