Word: scriabine
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...Conversion. "Molotov" is an underground pseudonym (Molot means hammer). Molotov was born Scriabin, the son of a store clerk in the village of Kukarka. At a sacrifice, the family sent him to gymnasia (high school) in nearby Kazan, to college in distant Petrograd. There the backwash of the bloody revolution of 1905 hit and converted him. At 1 6 he was a full-fledged, poster-writing, bomb-making revolutionary. At 19 he had been jailed, exiled...
...Kalmann Novak '45, plane recital, from the Winthrop House Common Room: works by Rachmanioff, Chopin and Scriabin...
Album of Fantasias (Grace Castagnetta, pianist; Timely*: 8 sides). An anthology including works by Haydn, Beethoven, Schumann, Brahms, Scriabin and Shostakovich, some of them previously unrecorded. Capably performed, magnificently recorded, with an explanatory pamphlet by Author Hendrik Van Loon...
...unfamiliar compositions in their programs, critics praised them but insisted that that kind of thing would not go down with the untutored public. Wood ignored their advice, continued to give his audiences small doses of modern music, gradually increasing them with the years. That the works of Scriabin, Sibelius, Bela Bartók and such English composers as Vaughan Williams, Gustav Hoist, Arnold Bax and William Walton are now popular pieces in the repertory of all British symphonic orchestras is largely due to his efforts...
...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...