Word: nekrasov
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Inside Lights. Subbing for the first-string music critic, Cardus once heard a Russian tenor sing Nekrasov's The Wanderer. Wrote Cardus: "At the passage where we hear the piteous lamentation of the starving peasant, [his] face was as though a light had been turned down inside; at the cry 'Cold! Cold!' the cheeks . . . became sunken; the body contracted as though intensely chilled, the hands clenched, and, surely, the voice itself was pinched ... An eloquent animation, almost sculptural...
...prologue of Nekrasov's well known epic, "Who Lives Happily in Russia," is translated into a striking form of blank verse by Leo Wiener. The work has been revised by Dr. A. C. Coolidge and is notable as being the first complete translation of the Prologue...