Word: ilyitch
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...whistle of the flute called me to the edge of the stage. I slid between a girl cladin a plaid dress with a big bow at the neck and a young couple dressed in formal wear. The yellowed, dried-out score lay open on the conductor's podium--"Peter Ilyitch Tchaikovsky" it read in spidery-flowing script...
...ILYITCH SLEPT HERE by Henry Carlisle. 224 pages. Lippincott...
...Ilyitch in this cold war burlesque was Vladimir Ilyitch Ulyanov, latterly known as Lenin, and where he slept (during the summer of 1916) was a palatial Swiss chalet outside Bern. Or at least that is the sales story of the villa's canny proprietress, who has long tried to sell it to the Soviet embassy. But the Kremlin professes disinterest-until suddenly the historic site is bought by one Parker Atherton III and his wife Bliss, "a severely elegant, strong-minded girl with auburn hair and a trust fund." Atherton is a vice consul at the U.S. embassy...
Arturo Toscanini (Sat. 10 p. m. NBC-Blue) conducts the NBC Symphony Orchestra in his first U. S. performance of Peter Ilyitch Tchaikovsky's Pathétique Symphony. Also Johann Sebastian Bach's Brandenburg Concerto No. 2, Franz Joseph Haydn's D Major (Horn Call) Symphony...
...when Piotr Ilyitch Tchaikovsky returned to St. Petersburg to rest after conducting his own moody music during a tour of Europe, he was requested to write something for the Imperial Theatres. With his brother Modeste as librettist, weary Piotr Ilyitch sat down and produced his last opera, lolanthe, a little idyll about a princess of Naples who did not know she was blind because she had been so from birth. Cured by Ibn Hakia, who strokes the long white beard appropriate to a Moorish sage, she marries the noble whose love made her cure possible. Tchaikovsky speedily became engrossed...