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...lanyard. Boom went a 17-in. cannon. Boom, Boom, Boom it went again, each time almost knocking the little cannoneer off his feet. Sixteen rifles in the hands of 16 U. S. Coast Guardsmen and infantry fired a volley of 16 blank cartridges and the 1812 Overture of Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky crashed to its close with the familiar progressions of the old Imperial Russian anthem...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: 1812, with Guns | 8/10/1936 | See Source »

...when Piotr Ilyitch Tchaikovsky returned to St. Petersburg to rest after conducting his own moody music during a tour of Europe, he was requested to write something for the Imperial Theatres. With his brother Modeste as librettist, weary Piotr Ilyitch sat down and produced his last opera, lolanthe, a little idyll about a princess of Naples who did not know she was blind because she had been so from birth. Cured by Ibn Hakia, who strokes the long white beard appropriate to a Moorish sage, she marries the noble whose love made her cure possible. Tchaikovsky speedily became engrossed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Tchaikovsky Premiere | 9/18/1933 | See Source »

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