Word: sergei
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...partly because he has chosen to spend most of his life quietly at home, Sibelius has been slow to gain a worldwide recognition. This week when the big, bald Finn was 70, that recognition was his in abundance. Orchestras played his music in almost every music capital. In Boston Sergei Koussevitzky conducted Swan-white, Pohjola's Daughter, the tone poem Tapiola. For Philadelphia Leopold Stokowski chose the great Fourth Symphony. The New York Philharmonic played the Second, broadcast part of it to Finland. Sibelius, at 70, lives in a rambling country house in Jarvenpaa, some 30 miles from Helsinki...
...been created alongside the State's Cabinet. The new Cabinet of Yagoda: Commissar Yakov S. Agranov of the so-called Ogpu Secret Section devoted to unmasking and destroying Enemies of the Regime. On his hurry call to Leningrad after a Communist assassinated Joseph Stalin's "Dear Friend Sergei" Kirov (TIME, Dec. 10, 1934), industrious Ogpuer Agranov had 66 men and five women shot in four days of star chamber proceedings, caused some 25,000 Leningraders (according to correspondents' guesses) to be deported to Siberia, this example of zeal being known in Russia as "Stalin's Revenge...
...ballet school flourished in Russia. The Classicist, Petipa, trained all his dancers until they had superlative technique. Isadora Duncan had an influence because of her free approach to music, her dominating personality. Michael Fokine appeared on the Russian scene with his own liberated ideas, introducing the ballets with which Sergei Diaghilev paved his way throughout the Western world...
...Manhattan last week towering Otto Klemperer marched before the Philharmonic Symphony, thrust his baton into the air and drew forth the overture to a new music season. Next day in Philadelphia Leopold Stokowski was back on his spotlit chromium podium. Rehearsals were under way in Boston under Sergei Koussevitzky, in Cleveland under Artur Rodzinski. Soon orchestras all over the U. S. will be in full stride...
...Heyward has converted his play into a libretto of natural and powerful drama, rich in action and skillful in thematic development. Rouben Mamoulian has performed a near-wonder of directorial genius aided by the sets of Sergei Soudeikine and the conducting of Alexander Smallens...