Word: scriabine
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...senior began with Bach's French Suite No. 3. She played the seven sections as they deserve to be played--not as finger exercises but as lively, subtle dances. In fact, each piece on the program seemed to receive exactly the performance it was created for. Miss Drooker played Scriabin's quietly expressive Nocturne for Left Hand (op. 9, no. 2) without falling into the usual traps of excessively free rhythm and over-pedaling. Her graceful, well-paced renditions of Debussy's Passepied, from the Suite Bergamasque, and Minstrels showed how effective these can be when they are played "straight...
...keyboard and a battery of 88 felt-padded mechanical fingers fitted over the keys, playing the music back with all the expression and personality of the original performer. There was Debussy playing some of his Preludes and his Children's Corner Suite; Saint-Saëns, Faure, Grieg, Scriabin, Falla, Granados, Richard Strauss and Mahler performing their own compositions on the piano. There were kings of the keyboard-DePachmann, Leschetizky, Busoni, D'Albert and famed Conductor-Pianist Arthur Nikisch -playing Chopin, Brahms, Liszt, and their own works...
Unlike Stalin (né Dyugashvili), Trotsky (né Bronstein) and Molotov (né Scriabin), Zhdanov still has the name he was born with. Sharing a common root with the Russian verb zhdat, to wait or to expect, it is a good name for a man who was to ride quietly up the party escalator until he could expect (or at least hope for) succession to the biggest political job on earth. His father was a school inspector in Tver (now Kalinin), about 100 miles northwest of Moscow. Zhdanov had a better education (including German and French) than any present member...
Boston Symphony--first 1946-47 performances Friday afternoon and Saturday night, featuring Koussevitzky, the Shostakovitch Ninth, a Scriabin tone poem, and Brahms' First...
Life in a Cellar. Vyacheslav Mikhailovitch Scriabin was born 56 years ago, the son of a store clerk in Nolinsk, 480 miles northeast of Moscow. At 16, by adopting the Russian word Molot (for hammer), he became Molotov the Communist-in whose vigorous, resilient carcass was buried Scriabin...