Word: sergei
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Sibelius: Symphony No. 5 in E Flat Major (Boston Symphony, Sergei Koussevitzky conducting: Victor: 10 sides). One of the big-domed Finn's more ingratiating symphonies, magnificently played and recorded. The lusty tone poem Pohjola's Daughter fills out the last three sides...
...citizens who stay away from concerts, the best-known high-brow composer now living is probably Russian-born Sergei Vassilievich Rachmaninoff. His crashing Prelude in C-Sharp Minor, first introduced to the U. S. in 1898 by his friend Pianist Alexander Siloti, immediately started to outsell Tin Pan Alley's song hits, has rolled up a total of some 5,000,000 copies. In 1909, when 36-year-old Rachmaninoff made his U. S. debut as a concert pianist, the "Flatbush* Prelude," as it was then known, had made his exotic name familiar to U. S. lips...
Boris Babochkin, who plays the title role, is one of the Russia's outstanding actors and holds the title, "Peoples Artist of the Republic." Especial credit goes to the two brothers who directed the film, Sergei and Georgi Vasilyev...
...London Symphony, the London Philharmonic, the Queen's Hall), London's three crack choirs (BBC's Choral Society, the Royal Choral Society, the Philharmonic Choir), 16 of England's best concert and opera singers, Sir Henry's great & good friend, Sergei Rachmaninoff. Ralph Vaughan Williams composed a special song for the occasion called Serenade to Music. Sixty-nine-year-old Sir Henry planned to turn over the proceeds from his anniversary party to an endowment of hospital beds for orchestral players...
...Volga. By 1910 Koussevitzky was the most widely-known maestro in Tsarist Russia. Meanwhile he had started a publishing house for music by contemporary Slavic composers, published for the first time (thus, incidentally, sparing himself the performance royalties) works by such famed artists as the late Alexander Scriabin, Sergei Prokofieff and Igor Stravinsky...