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very good, mine liege
would you care to pad that out betimes
Joan Cross – Queen Elizabeth I in the premiere of Britten's Gloriana, 8th June 1953
Isabella Colbran - Queen Elizabeth I in the premiere of Rossini's Elisabetta, Regina d'Inghilterra, 4th October 1815
Adelaide Tosi - Queen Elizabeth I in the premiere of Donizetti's Il Castello di Kenilworth 6 July 1829
Ravel? He composed a piece for piano 'in the manner of Borodin', and I believe there's a body swinging from a gibbet in the second part of 'Gaspard de La Nuit'.....
Ravel? He composed a piece for piano 'in the manner of Borodin', and I believe there's a body swinging from a gibbet in the third part of 'Gaspard de La Nuit'.....
Nice try, Northo, but not what's on the card. The piece I have in mind was actually dedicated to the memory of Borodin.
......so far I have dedicated to Borodin: Stenka Radin by Glazunov and Rimsky-Korsakov's Russian Easter Festival Overture
I'm guessing that Seekers will be Judith Durham & Co. - OK Yar sort of suggests Babi Yar
update Stenka Razin is the hero of a popular Russian folk song, Ponizovaya Volnitsa, better known by the words Volga, Volga mat' rodnaya. The words were written by Dmitri Sadovnikov (Дмитрий Николаевич Садовников) in 1883; the music is folk. The song gave the title to the famous Soviet musical comedy Volga-Volga. The melody was used by Tom Springfield in the song "The Carnival Is Over" that placed The Seekers at #1 in 1965 in Australia and the UK. (wikipedia)
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