Word: ilich
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...field, at least, the Russians were still ace-high with Americans last week. Billboard magazine reported that their classical composers led the U.S. hit parade in 1947. And the most popular of them all was Peter Ilich Tchaikovsky. Victor listed his Nutcracker Suite, Piano Concerto No. 1 and Violin Concerto among its top best-selling classical albums of the year, and Nutcracker was one of Columbia's big sellers...
Wrote Peter Ilich Tchaikovsky: "Musorgsky you are quite right in characterizing as hopeless, [but] his talent is perhaps the most remarkable of all [the Five]. . . . He has some sort of low nature which loves all that is coarse, crude and rough . . . coquets with his illiteracy and takes pride in his ignorance, rolling along, blindly believing in the infallibility of his own genius. But he has a real, and even original, talent which flashes out now and then. . . . Musorgsky, for all his ugliness, speaks a new language. Beautiful it may not be, but it is fresh...
...recent survey along the assigned reading shelves of Widener showed literary works preserving pristine white margins. But Economic writings from Adam Smith to Vladimir Ilich Ulianov (Lenin) are salted with such witticisms as "you're crazy," and "tell it to Uncle...
...Peter Ilich Tchaikovsky, as interpreted by Artur Rodzinski and the New York Philharmonic, gladdened Herald Tribune Critic Virgil Thomson, who observed: "I suspect there may be some protests from adolescents about the removal of all traces of imminent sexuality from the work of a man who has been for so long their especial comfort. But I am sure that many musicians of my age will be glad to welcome [the composer] back to the adult fold...
...countless oft-performed songs and piano pieces, was probably best known for his ubiquitous Prelude in C Sharp Minor (the "Flatbush" Prelude). Son of a captain in the Russian Imperial Guards, gaunt, towering Sergei Rachmaninoff was a close friend and protégé of the late great Peter Ilich Tchaikovsky, made his first reputation as a conductor of the London Philharmonic and of the Imperial Grand Theater of Moscow, in 1909 toured the applauding U.S. in the dual role of pianist and composer. An unbending foe of the Soviet revolution, Rachmaninoff left Russia in 1917 to spend most...