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OTD in Music History: Important Russian “Nationalist” composer Modest Mussorgsky (1839 - 1881) is born into a wealthy land-owning Russian family. Mussorgsky began receiving piano lessons from his mother (a trained pianist) at the age of six. He progressed rapidly, and at the age of ten he and his brother were taken to Saint Petersburg to continue their studies (which included music) at an elite school. Mussorgsky's parents had also planned the move to Saint Petersburg so that both their sons would renew a longstanding family tradition of military service, and Mussorgsky was thus duly enrolled in the Cadet School Of The Guards at the age of 13. Unfortunately, this proved to be a brutal environment – indeed, it probably instilled in young Mussorgsky the drinking habits which would ultimately lead him down to the path to terminal alcoholism. (According to another former student, the Head of the Academy at that time "was proud when a cadet returned from leave drunk with champagne.”) Mussorgsky’s considerable skills as a pianist made him popular with his fellow-cadets, however, and he spent many evenings playing popular dances for his new friends. Then, in October 1856, the 17-year-old Mussorgsky met the 22-year-old physician Alexander Borodin (1833 - 1887) while both men were serving at a military hospital. Even more portentous was Mussorgsky’s introduction, just a few months later, to Alexander Dargomyzhsky (1813 - 1869), who was then the most important Russian composer after Mikhail Glinka (1804 - 1857). Dargomyzhsky was so impressed with Mussorgsky's pianism that he invited Mussorgsky to begin attending his soirees, and it was there that Mussorgsky also met Cesar Cui (1835 - 1918) and Mily Balakirev (1837 - 1910), and, through Balakirev, Nicolai Rimsky-Korsakov (1844 - 1908). Thus was formed the core constituency of the historically important Russian “Nationalist” school of composers known as “The Mighty Five”… PICTURED: A c. 1920s real photo postcard showing the middle-aged Mussorgsky sporting a very solid mullet.

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jasonweinbergerconcerts · 7 years

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Nicolai Rimsky-Korsakov Russian Easter Overture

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Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky Symphony no. 6

March 30, 2024 7:00pm GBPAC Great Hall, Cedar Falls

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oconnormusicstudio · 3 years

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Leonard Bernstein: What Does Music Mean?

On January 18, 1958 Leonard Bernstein began presenting his television series What does music mean? The series ran for 53 programs. Some of the episodes can be found below: Part 1 What is Classical Music? Plot: Bernstein conducts Handel’s Water Music and cites it as an indisputable example of classical music. “Exact” is the word that best defines classical music, Bernstein says and he…

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mrdirtybear · 4 years

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‘Portrait of the Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov’ painted in 1893 by Russian painter Ilya Repin (1844-1930).

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jelzorz · 2 years

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For the songs ask! #s 9, 29, and 30 please, if you don’t mind!

And if you feel like answering only one, i hope you can please do 9 :) since my ulterior motive is to get you into the mood for a christmas special 😬

9. three songs that get you in the Christmas Mood

I play for the Qld Medical Orchestra (which is exactly what it sounds like—an orchestra made of medical professionals who get together in their spare time to make music) and every year we have a Christmas concert and in our household, it's not Christmas unless Leroy Anderson's Sleight Ride is playing non-stop for two months for rehearsal. This our version from a little while ago! I'm even in this video!

I also consider Summer Wonderland by Ronan Keating and Baby it's cold outside by Chris Colfer and Darren Cris Christmas classics but only for me.

29. three songs that influenced you most (some songs change or save lives)

She used to be mine by Sara Bareilles

All too well (10 minute version) by Taylor Swift

Scheherazade by Nicolai Rimsky-Korsakov

30. three songs I want my followers to know

Run boy run by woodkid

Summertime by the Mowgli's

What about me by Shannon Noll (a True Australian Classic)

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riffsstrides · 3 years

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"Rimsky-Korsakov: Scheherazade - op.35" no YouTube

Scheherazade, also spelled Sheherazade, orchestral suite by Russian composer Nicolay Rimsky-Korsakov that was inspired by the collection of largely Middle Eastern and Indian tales known as The Thousand and One Nights (or The Arabian Nights). Exemplary of the late 19th-century taste for program music—or, music with a story to tell—the piece evokes an image of Scheherazade (Shahrazad), the young wife of the sultan Schahriar (Shahryar), telling tales to her husband to forestall his plan to kill her. Colourful and highly varied in mood, the work has a recurring violin solo that represents Scheherazade herself and a deep, ponderous theme that corresponds to the sultan. The composition was completed in 1888, and it premiered on November 3 of that year, in Saint Petersburg, with the composer himself conducting.

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yama-bato · 4 years

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Ballet Le Coq d’or, music by Nicolai Rimsky-Korsakov, scenes and costumes by Natalia Goncharova, Ballets Russes du Colonel de Bazil. London, Covent-Garden,1937 Moscow, Tretyakov State Gallery, Department of Manuscript.

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opera-ghosts · 1 year

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OTD in Music History: Composer, conductor, pedagogue, and master orchestrator Nicolai Rimsky-Korsakov (1844 - 1908) leads the world premiere of his newly-composed tone poem “Scheherazade” in 1888; it will prove to be his most enduring work. Rimsky-Korsakov first came to prominence as a member of "The Five" or "The Mighty Handful," a historically important group of self-taught Russian nationalist composers who studied and worked (and sometimes even lived) together from ~1856 - 1870. Rimsky-Korsakov was a discipline of Mily Balakirev (1837 - 1910), the leader of "The Five" and a powerful (and highly despotic) figure within the Russian nationalist "classical" music movement. In 1871, however, Rimsky-Korsakov accepted a position as Professor of Practical Composition and Instrumentation (orchestration) at the Saint Petersburg Conservatory. (He still retained his position as a naval officer, and he actually taught his early classes in uniform as required by Russian law.) Balakirev was strongly opposed to any form of academic training, but he encouraged Rimsky-Korsakov to accept the post in order to help convince students to defect and come to Balakirev. When it became clear that Rimsky-Korsakov had instead "gone over to the enemy", however, relations with Balakirev soured. For his part, Rimsky-Korsakov soon realized how much formal training he lacked -- in his memoirs, he reported spending the first year struggling to remain "one lesson ahead" of his students. He eventually became a master teacher whose students included Igor Stravinsky (1882 - 1971). PICTURED: A photo postcard showing Rimsky-Korsakov, which he signed in the turbulent year of 1905 -- when the "Revolution of 1905" rocked Russia, and Rimsky-Korsakov publicly supported a student walkout at the Conservatory. He was fired, sparking an even greater of wave of student and faculty protests until his reinstatement in December. (He retired just a few months later.)

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oconnormusicstudio · 3 years

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March 18: Today’s Music History

. 1842 ~ Stephane Mallarme, French Symbolist poet, born. His “L’Apres-midi d’un Faune” inspired composer Claude Debussy to write an orchestral prelude of the same name. . 1844 ~ Nicolai Rimsky-Korsakov, Russian composer More information about Rimsky-Korsakov . 1882 ~ Gian Francesco Malipiero, Italian composer and musicologist . 1902 ~ Enrico Caruso recorded 10 arias for the Gramophone Company.…

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#Claude Debussy #composer #Metropolitan Opera #musicologist #Nicolai Rimsky-Korsakov #opera #Queen Latifa #singer #songwriter #The Met #Today in Music History #video

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mrdirtybear · 4 years

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‘Portrait of Nicolai Rimsky Korsakov’ painted in 1898 by Valentin Serov (1865-1911). Rimsky Korsakov(1844-1906)

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tom-etseg · 4 years

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101 Strings - Songs of the Seasons in Japan

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Adrian Belew - Lone Rhino

Adrian Belew - Twang Bar King

Adrian Belew - Mr. Music Head

Adrian Belew - Young Lions

The Best of Alfred Apaka

Allan Holdsworth - Velvet Darkness

A. Summers & R. Fripp - I Advance Masked

Anything Goes

Ayalew Mesfin - Hasabe/My Worries

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Black Sabbath - Heaven and Hell

Black Sabbath - Mob Rules

The Black Watch - Highland Pageantry

Bruford - One of a Kind

Bud Tutmarc - Simply Beautiful

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Cpt. Beefheart - Unconditionally Guranteed

Cpt. Beefheart - Bluejeans and Moonbeams

The Cars - Candy-O

Chet Atkins - Music From Nashville

Chet Atkins - Lover's Guitar

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David Bowie - Ziggy Stardust

David Fanshawe - African Sanctus

Death Grips - Government Plates

Death Grips - The Powers That B

Dio - Dream Evil

Dean Martin - You Can't Love 'em All

The Dungills - Africa Calling

D. Zappa - My Guitar Wants to Kill Your Mama

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Music of Edgard Varèse

Music of Edgard Varèse vol. 2

Edward Macdowell - Indian Suite

ELP - ELP

ELP - Tarkus

ELP - Trilogy

ELP - Brain Salad Surgery

ELP - Works

Eric Dolphy - Out There

Erik Satie - Piano Music vol. 3

Erroll Garner - Magician

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Frank Zappa - Freak Out!

Frank Zappa - Absolutely Free

Frank Zappa - Lumpy Gravy

Frank Zappa - WOIIFTM

Frank Zappa - Uncle Meat

Frank Zappa - Hot Rats

Frank Zappa - Burnt Weeny Sandwich

Frank Zappa - 200 Motels

Frank Zappa - One Size Fits All

Frank Zappa - Overnite Sensation

Frank Zappa - Apostrophe

Frank Zappa - Roxy & Elsewhere

Frank Zappa - Zoot Allures

Frank Zappa - Sheik Yerbouti

Frank Zappa - Orchestral Favorites

Frank Zappa - Shut Up 'n Play Yer Guitar

Frank Zappa - Drowning Witch

Frank Zappa - The Man From Utopia

Frank Zappa - LSO Vol.1

Frank Zappa - Them or Us

Frank Zappa - Mothers of Prevention

Frank Zappa - Jazz From Hell

Zappa Movie Soundtrack

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GSOL - Gamelan in the New World

Gentle Giant - Acquiring the Taste

Gentle Giant - Three Friends

Gentle Giant - Octopus

Gentle Giant - The Power and the Glory

Gentle Giant - Free Hand

Gentle Giant - Interview

Gentle Giant - Civilian

George Benson - Weekend in L.A.

George Duke - Don't Let Go

George Duke - Dream On

George Thorogood - Maverick

The Great Country Singers

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Hamilton Face Band

Hank Williams Jr. - Greatest Hits

Harry Enfield - Loadsamoney

Hollow Knight Soundtrack

Hounds - Puttin on the Dog

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Igor Stravinsky - The Firebird

Igor Stravinsky - The Rite of Spring

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Janis Ian

Jean Luc Ponty - King Kong

Jean Luc Ponty - Aurora

Jean Luc Ponty - Imaginary Voyage

Jean Luc Ponty - Enigmatic Ocean

Jerry Byrd - On the Shores of Waikiki

Jerry Reed - When You're Hot, You're Hot

Jerry Reed - Eastbound and Down

Jethro Tull - Aqualung

John Denver - Spirit

John Denver - The Windstar Greatest Hits

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King Crimson - ITCOTKC

King Crimson - Lizard

King Crimson - Larks' Tongues in Aspic

King Crimson - Starless and Bible Black

King Crimson - Red

King Crimson - Discipline

King Crimson - Beat

King Crimson - Three of a Perfect Pair

Kiss - Hotter Than Hell

Kiss - Dressed to Kill

Kiss - Alive

Kiss - Destroyer

Kiss - Kissworld

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Laura Nyro - More Than a New Discovery

Laura Nyro - Eli and the 13th Confessional

Laurie Anderson - Mister Heartbreak

Theme from Lawrence of Arabia

Lynyrd Skynyrd - (?)

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Neneh Cherry - Buffalo Stance

Nicolai Rimsky Korsakov - Scheherazade

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Mantovani - Gypsy Soul

Martin Denny - Hawaii

Marty Robbins - Gunfighter Ballads

Maurice Ravel - Bolero

Max Webster - High Class in Borrowed Shoes

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Mr. Bungle

Music From Many Lands

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Pantera - Metal Magic

Pantera - History of Hostility

Pepe Kalle & Nyomba - Moyibi

Persuasions - We Came to Play

Persuasions - IJWTSWMF

Los Pinguinos - at El Shrimp Bucket

Polynesia

Primus - The Brown Album

Prince - Purple Rain

Psychonauts Soundtrack

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Quena

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Rainbow - Ritchie Blackmore's Rainbow

Rainbow - Long Live Rock 'n' Roll

The Rising of the Moon

Robert Fripp - Exposure

Robert Fripp - The League of Gentlemen

Rush - Hemispheres

Rush - 2112

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Sanford & Son

Simons - Best24

Slint - Spiderland

Soviet Army Chorus & Band

Sparks - No.1 in Heaven

Split Enz - Waiata

Stanley Black - Russia

Steely Dan - Pretzel Logic

Street Fighter III: The Collection

Sun Ra - Jazz in Silhouette

System of a Down - Toxicity

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They Might Be Giants - Flood

Tihati - Savage

Les Troubadours du Roi Baudouin - Missa Luba

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Van Halen - Diver Down

Vib Ribbon Soundtrack

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Weather Report - Heavy Weather

Weather Report - Mr. Gone

Weather Report - 8:30

Weather Report - Sportin Life

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Yes - The Yes Album

Yes - Fragile

Yes - Close to the Edge

Yes - 90125

The Young and the Restless

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jasonweinbergerconcerts · 7 years

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Florence Price Concert Overture no 1

George Gershwin Rhapsody in Blue [1943 edition] with Ignacio ‘Nachito’ Herrera

Nicolai Rimsky-Korsakov Scheherazade

September 21, 2019 7:00 pm GBPAC Great Hall, Cedar Falls

#price #gershwin #rimsky-korsakov #wcfsymphony

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scottbcrowley2 · 5 years

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Concert review: Yuliya Gorenman wins over the audience with a winning ‘Scheherazade’ - Thu, 07 Mar 2019 PST

At her inaugural recital of the 2019 season of the Northwest Bachfest, at which she performed the entire “Well-Tempered Clavier Book 1” of J.S. Bach, Yuliya Gorenman won the admiration of her audience. At her second recital, she won their hearts. Again, the program was a daunting one for the performer: Nicolai Rimsky-Korsakov’s vast symphonic suite, “Scheherazade,” in an original transcription for piano by Gorenman herself. As she explained to us after the performance, her motivation in making the transcription was to be able to play “Scheherazade” for her father, who loves the piece above all others. Consequently, the transcription is scrupulously faithful to the original, lacking any meretricious additions designed to show off the performer’s technical gifts, which in the case of Yuliya Gorenman, are considerable. Concert review: Yuliya Gorenman wins over the audience with a winning ‘Scheherazade’ - Thu, 07 Mar 2019 PST

#Spokesman.com: Latest stories #Concert review: Yuliya Gorenman wins over the audience with a winning

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