Word: russianize
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Glee Club, an ensemble of 185 men under Dr. A. T. Davison '06, will sing a well-balanced program of songs, which starts with religious pieces, both old and modern, progresses with light modern glees of Russian, French, English, and American vintage, interrupted by an old French love song, and concludes with a Netherlands Folk Song, "Prayers of Thanksgiving...
...messages of Comrade Tchitcherin, two in number, deplored the British Government's action in abrogating the Russian Treaties, negotiated painfully by Premier MacDonald; it tacitly declined, however, to accept any responsibility for the "discontent" that the rejection will cause in Russia and Britain, stating that the Bolshevik Government "has displayed a maximum of good-will and concessions" in connection with the treaties...
...platform of Carnegie Hall, Manhattan, stood a tall Russian. He had sparkling eyes, thin hands, greying hair, a tailor. He was Serge Koussevitzky, new conductor of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, making his Manhattan debut. With uncommon dignity he turned his back on the notable company assembled in that hall, raised his arms. Rank on rank behind him stood, sat, lounged, the many who had come to see whether the Boston Symphony had any chance of regaining the haughty place it held before Dr. Karl Muck went to Fort Oglethorpe under the Espionage act in 1917, whether it were true that...
...Alexandrovitch Koussevitzky was born in 1874 in Vyshny Volotchk, Russia. He gained admission to the Moscow Conservatory by promising to study the double bass, an instrument much needed at the moment in the conservatory orchestra. Out of the belly of that bull fiddle he brought such music as no Russian, perhaps no other man, had ever brought before. When learning to conduct he grouped chairs about him in the positions players would occupy in actual performance, conducted voiceless symphonies, ghosts responding. He made his first appearance in Berlin, conducted with success in London, Paris, other European capitals. He came...
...when he toured the country with his La Scala orchestra, gave a series of concerts which were lavishly heralded, created a sensation with interpretation of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony. Before the War, he conducted for seven years at the Metropolitan Opera House, Manhattan, directing with equal aplomb Russian, French, German, Italian opera. He produced Dukas' Ariane et Barbe-Bleu, Moussorgsky's Boris Godounov; revived Gluck's Orfeo and Armide, Weber's Euryanthe. His feats of memory have become legend. Never has he been seen to use a score. In his head are over 100 operas...