Word: oranienbaum
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Born in 1882 in Oranienbaum, Russia, a city southwest of St. Petersburg, Stravinsky was rooted in the nationalistic school that drew inspiration from Russia's beautifully expressive folk music. His father was an opera singer who performed in Kiev and St. Petersburg, but his greatest musical influence was his teacher, Nikolay Rimsky-Korsakov. The colorful, fantastic orchestration that Stravinsky brought to his folk song-inspired melodies was clearly derived from Rimsky-Korsakov. But the primitive, offbeat rhythmic drive he added was entirely his own. The result was a music never before heard in a theater or concert hall...
...born on the feast day of Saint Igor (June 18), at Oranienbaum, on the Gulf of Finland, where his family frequently spent their summers. In his autobiography, he recalls the "sharp resinous tang of fresh cut wood" and an enormous dumb peasant, feared by all the other kids, who sang a song "composed of two syllables, the only ones he could pronounce . . . From beneath [his] red shirt he extracted a succession of sounds [by putting his right hand under his left armpit, then pumping his left arm against it] which were somewhat dubious but very rhythmic ... At home...
Victory's Pattern. The Russians struck from two points at once. One column drove south from the city. Another pushed out from the tiny beachhead at Oranienbaum, 25 miles from Leningrad. Before both columns a broom of TNT swept a clear path...
...Pulkovo Hills and south Oranienbaum, the Germans fought their hardest: their trenches were deep, mine fields vast, artillery plentiful. Now little was left of these defenses, and the snowy road across the hills was blotched with dark, ragged craters. Over the rear German positions, pounded by Russian bombers, black ack-ack puffs spotted the milky...
Strawinsky was born in Oranienbaum, Russia, in 1882, but for more than twenty years lived in Paris. Among his best known works are: "L'Oiseau de Feu," "Potrouchka," "Lo Sacre du Printemps," "L'Histoire du Soldat," "Oedipus Rox," and "Symphonic dos Psaumes...