Like many of Russia's great composers, Alexander Borodin was renown in other fields beyond music. Although composer Alexander Borodin (1833-1887) is best known for writing one of the best Russian ...
Pianist Junhui Chen from Fuzhou, China graduated from the Curtis Institute of Music in 2019 and is currently pursuing a master’s degree at the Juilliard School. In his graduation recital, Junhui paid ...
Alexander Borodin has written 2 shows including Kismet (Composer), Timbuktu! (Composer). What awards has Alexander Borodin been nominated for? Alexander Borodin has been nominated for the Best Musical ...
The man who wrote the opera 'Prince Igor' was a renowned scientist and chemist, besides being a great composer. Although composer Alexander Borodin (1833-1887) is best known for writing one of the ...
Musically speaking, the time of the String Quartet No. 2 was the beginning of the end for Borodin. It was written when he was in his late forties and at exactly the period when finding time for music ...
Many musical historians regard Prince Igor as Borodin’s magnum opus. But, strictly speaking, it should really be considered as his ‘magnum opus infectus’ – his great unfinished work. Despite spending ...
Russian composer Alexander Borodin had a hard time finishing anything. His friends had to finish his operas and get them performed, and they've never become part of the standard repertory. But some of ...
Four string players and a funeral: such a shorthand summary of perhaps the most stressful event in the extraordinary 70-year history of the Borodin Quartet tells only half the story. One of the ...
IT is unusual for a man to be able to follow with equal activity two such exacting and diversified fields of endeavor as science and music, without eventually foregoing one for the other. Alexander ...
Even though composer Alexander Borodin spent most of his life pursuing science and medicine, he managed to contribute a number of musical works that were every bit as professional as those by ...
For a full-time professional scientist to compose works of such originality and beauty as the Polovtsian Dances (from Prince Igor) and the String Quartet No 2 is a minor miracle. Borodin’s first ...