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Coarse & Crude. No composer's work suffers more than Musorgsky's from the conviction of his contemporaries that they could write his music better. Only in recent years have U.S. conductors stripped away the lacy ornamentation that Rimsky-Korsakov wrapped around some of his music.* Boris has never been produced at Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera the way Musorgsky wrote it; the piano pieces, Pictures at an Exhibition, are usually heard only in latter-day orchestrations by Ravel, Stokowski and others...
...Balkirev, Borodin, Cui, Rimsky-Korasav. *Musorgsky's letters do much to clear Rimsky-Korsakov, whom Musorgsky often asked for help, while they were rooming together...
...appeared at a Moscow music school when he was 19, with little more to offer than a conviction that he was a musician. In three years he learned to scrub passably on the cello, studied composition at the Moscow Conservatory with Miaskovsky, who had been a pupil of Rimsky-Korsakov. When Aram graduated in 1933, his name was carved on a marble panel, an honor reserved for star pupils. Khachaturian still draws heavily on his native Armenian and Georgian folk themes and rhythms for his symphonies and concertos, and on Ravel and Stravinsky, among others, for his handling of them...
...Isolde and called it Time Stands Still. He converted Prokofiev's Peter and the Wolf into Dingbat the Singing Cat and is now waiting for When I Write My Song (from Saint-Saens' aria My Heart at Thy Sweet Voice) to make the Hit Parade. Rimsky-Korsakov's Hymn to the Sun became Mossman's To Love a Dream...
...people"). What did he think of U.S. Composer Aaron Copland's Third Symphony, which he also heard for the first time? Said he: "I like his other works, but I was not impressed with this symphony. ... I had a feeling that ... it was influenced too much by Rimsky-Korsakov, Tchaikovsky, Mahler, Stravinsky...