Word: sergei
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...years have passed since the late Major Henry Lee Higginson undertook to provide Bostonians with a permanent orchestra, brought over German George Henschel to take first command. Despite his 80 years, Henschel came back last week to inaugurate the jubilee season with a repetition of his original program. Conductor Sergei Alexandrovitch Koussevitzky anticipated the opening with a superb radio concert, planned his actual return for the season's second week. Scheduled for the winter are the premieres of many contemporary works, a Beethoven Festival to be given in Washington through the first week in December, a Bach Festival in Boston...
When that other devastating Soviet poet, Sergei Yessenin, onetime husband of the late tempestuous Isadora Duncan, committed suicide (TiME, Jan. n, 1926). Poet Vladimir Mayakovsky savagely criticized his "cowardice," displayed the almost hysterical resentment of a man who fears he, too, may some day take his own life...
...Martha Graham did the sacrificial dance in accordance with the spirit of the whole production-jerking, stamping, lunging in the manner which seems to some beholders insane, to others sublime. Many seeing and hearing understood for the first time why the Paris production, put on by the late great Sergei Pavlovitch Diaghilev in 1913, was greeted by a riot, the audience shouting so that the dancers, unable to hear the music, continued only by watching the master's beat in the wings. Some even reacted like the Londoner who said it was a "threat against the foundations...
...Manhattan socialite and mother of a second Stokowski daughter, Luba. From a simple, naive person he has changed to one who is autocratic, imperiously sure of his countless opinions on acoustics, lighting, radio, printing, painting, the habit of applause (TIME, Nov. 18). At a recent rehearsal he and Pianist Sergei Rachmaninoff almost came to blows over the tempo of a Rachmaninoff concerto concerning which Stokowski felt he knew better than the composer. Indicative, too, is the feeling of his men, changed now from one of adoration to respect. The Philadelphia Orchestra has no baseball team...
Schumann's Carnaval by Sergei Rachmaninoff (Victor, $6.50)?Miniature portraits of people and situations at a costume ball. Lightly and charmingly played by Pianist Rachmaninoff...