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...program at Tuesday's sight reading rehearsal will include Berlioz's Roman Carnival Overture, Haydn's "London" Symphony, Dvorak's Sinflonietta, Borodin's Polovetsian Dances from Prince Igor, and a Suite by Bach...
Foppish & Fussed-Over. Musorgsky was, wrote Composer Alexander Borodin on first meeting him, "quite boyish, very elegant, the very picture of an officer: brand-new, close-fitting uniform . . . sleek pomaded hair, nails as if carved . . . refined, aristocratic manners, conversation . . . sprinkled with French phrases, rath er affected . . . some traces of foppishness. . . . The ladies made a fuss over him. He sat at the piano and, coquettishly throwing up his hands, played . . . very sweetly and gracefully, while the circle around him buzzed . . . 'charmant, delicieux...
...Balkirev, Borodin, Cui, Rimsky-Korasav. *Musorgsky's letters do much to clear Rimsky-Korsakov, whom Musorgsky often asked for help, while they were rooming together...
...Summer Symphony (Sun. 5 p.m., NBC). Menotti Salta's Nostalgic Serenade, Goldmark's Overture to In Springtime, Debussy's Nuages and Fêtes, Borodin's Polovtsian Dances from Prince Igor, Fritz Kreisler's Sicilienne et Rigaudon, Prelude and Allegro. Conductor: Frank Black...
...this period, Sun Yat-sen had welcomed Russian help for his revolution. Russia sent help-and organizers. One of the Kremlin's Far Eastern experts, with the romantic name of Michael Borodin (he had formerly been a Chicago dentist with the less romantic name of Mike Gruzenberg), brought Moscow organization charts, showed the Chinese Nationalists how to reorganize the Kuomintang on the pattern of the Communist Party in Russia, and even how to set up a party secret police. Sun Yat-sen's Communist helpers were all set to take over from within, while Chiang Kai-shek...