Word: russian
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Pakistan army and its former chief of staff. Familiar with battle scenes, he was twice captured while serving with the British Indian army in World War II-and escaped both times. He is a four-goal international polo player, and a formidable linguist, fluent in English, French, German, Italian, Russian and Urdu...
...hear, I've been hearing for 40 years." But he also feels that, as in the U.S. South, accommodation is possible. Similarly, he finds a parallel between dissidence in Russia today and the U.S. black activism of the early '60s. Says he: "In a sense, the Russian dissidents are a normal outgrowth of increasing education and affluence among the Russian elite. As Russian society begins to develop a greater consumer orientation, they're going to have a human rights explosion, just as we had in this country...
...orchestrated. Thanks to the inquisitive Sarah Caldwell, we now know what follows the overture-an equally delightful opera. With Caldwell on the podium and in charge of stagecraft, the Opera Company of Boston opened its 19th season last week with the first known staging in the U.S. of this Russian classic...
...pouf of smoke, Ludmilla is abducted by the wicked dwarf Tchernomor. The rest of the opera concerns Russlan's travails in trying to find her ahead of two other suitors; the prince has promised Ludmilla to the first man who can rescue her. A kind of Russian Siegfried, Russlan receives a magic sword from that singing head but in the end requires a magic ring to wake his sleeping beauty from an evil spell...
Glinka (1804-57) was the father of Russian nationalistic music. To listen to Russlan, composed in 1842, is to hear much that followed in the work of Tchaikovsky, Borodin, Mussorgsky, Rimsky-Korsakov, the young Stravinsky, even the Prokofiev of Love for Three Oranges. Russlan is a delicious fairy tale scored with lightness and quick invention. The orchestration confirms accounts of Glinka's thorough knowledge of Mozart and Rossini. His inclusion of Russian folk music, Turkish airs, even the whole-tone scale from the Orient (more than half a century before Debussy) suggests that he was exceptionally curious and open...