Word: patriarchate
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...along on a swelling surge of music flavored by the Russian folk songs which Nationalist Mussorgsky loved so dearly. Mussorgsky mined the rich vein of Russian liturgical themes to back up the somber, icon-bearing Old Believers. Led by the young zealot Marfa (Rise Stevens) and the fervent patriarch Dossife (Jerome Hines), they sang the opera's most exciting music...