Word: nicolai
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Alexandre Constantinovitch Glazounov is the last survivor of the late great Russian school of composition. Born in St. Petersburg 64 years ago, the son of a bookseller, he was taught music by Mily Balakirev and Nicolai Rimsky-Korsakov, both members of the famed Russian "Five."* He himself won early notice with his startling memory. When Alexander Borodin died, the overture to Prince Igor was nowhere to be found, but Glazounov had once heard Borodin play it on the piano and was able to reconstruct it entirely from memory. Aged 16, Glazounov had finished his own first symphony. Liszt liked...
...night was Jan. 14, 1917. The husband and wife were Mr. & Mrs. Lev Davidovich Trotsky. Exiles from Tsardom, they had crossed on the little Spanish steamer Montserrat to live with relatives in The Bronx, were anxious to get to bed. To The Bronx their friend Nicolai Ivanovich Bukharin took them, after showing off his precious Library. It was his gold mine, the dingy Golconda from which he was digging material for tome after ponderous tome, his monumental works on Capitalism and Communism...
...moist smacking kisses are as Russian as vodka or borscht. A kiss is the festive greeting of peasant to peasant, irrespective of sex. And no Moscow merchant or lawyer would think of wishing his partner "Merry Christmas" without a buss on both cheeks. Soviet Commissar for Post and Telegraph Nicolai Antipov has lately been brooding darkly, intellectually on Russian kisses...
...following program will be presented at the Pops Concert in Symphony Hall tonight, starting at 8.15 o'clock: Overture to "The Merry Wives of Windsor" Nicolai Ave Maria Shubert-Wilhelmj Bacchanale, "Samson and Delilah" Saint-Shens College Songs Algerian Suite Saint-Saena Spring Grieg "Pacific 2 3 1" Honegger Overture to "Rienzi" Wagney "Espana," Rhapsody Chabrier Waltz, "Artist's Life" Strauss Ride of the Valkyries Wagner
Overture to "The Merry Wives of Windsor" Nicolai Lyric Suite Grieg Roumanian Rhapsody Enesco L'Arlesienne Suite Bizet Danse Macabre Saint-Saens Espana, Rhapsody Chabrier Slavonic Dance Dvorak Largo Handel Overture to "Taunhauser" Waguer