Word: russianizing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Carnegie Hall, Manhattan, Vladimir de Pachmann, famed Russian pianist, aged 75 (TIME, Sept. 10), gave a recital on the pianoforte -his first in America in twelve years. Standees packed the parquet five deep...
Father John. S. Kedrovsky, an American citizen (until recently pastor of the Russian Orthodox Church at Hartford), is Russian Orthodox Archbishop of North America. He cabled from Moscow that he had been so consecrated, and will soon return...
...will see Charles Wakefield Codman, a composer, and the Indian princess, Tsianna, a soprano, entertaining. Singing will again fill the program a month later when Miss Grace Kerns, a lyric soprano of St. Bartholomew's Church in New York City sings. She will be assisted by other artists. The Russian Cathedral Sextet will entertain the evening of January 12, the closing entertainment of the series. Season tickets may be obtained at Jordan Hall...
...company which has been so widely advertised and extravagantly praised as the Chauve-Souris is likely to prove disappointing, but it is to the credit of these Russian players that every act is as fresh now as it was on their arrival in New York; even the "Parade of the Wooden Soldiers", which has been played to death by dance orchestras everywhere, seems new and different when accompanying the clockwork manoeuvers of the pipe-clayed actors. Balieff, of course, is inimitable; no one could rob his "apparition on the stage", as he says, of one whit of its originality...
...inexorable polka, but in vigor of execution, in recognition of artistic requirements and in sheer merit, these two most popular scenes scarcely outdo the others. The music throughout is so far above the level of the American vaudeville that one hesitates to apply that classification to the Russian counterpart. The voices are really musical,-except, of course, when they are intentionally harsh for obvious effects,-and the dancing, of which there is regrettably little, is interesting to say the least...