Word: tarasova
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...became that warrior, sounded his battle cry heroically. Next minute you could have believed her to be a whole band of Cossacks restlessly awaiting the approaching Tartars. Then she prayed, as a Siberian tribe long-vanished prayed to Kalaidos, its God. These were the stout, earthy beginnings of Nina Tarasova's first U. S. recital in five years...
Five years ago Nina Tarasova sang nothing but Russian peasant songs, songs she heard as a child on her grandmother's estate in the Crimea. Since then she has widened her scope, ferreted out more of the Old Russian songs fast dying under the new regime, explored the folk-music of France, Germany, England. All her songs tell stories. There was one last week in which a French husband glowered and raged at his simpering, deceitful wife. There was an arrangement of the Erlkonig which Goethe and the Kapellmeister Reichardt made for Goethe's cook. Tarasova sang...