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Anniversaries
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London; 3/21/1994; 102 words
; Births: Johann Sebastian Bach, composer, 1685; Claude-Nicolas Ledoux, architect, 1736; Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky, composer, 1839; Adolf Brodsky, violinist, 1851; Florenz Ziegfeld, stage producer, 1869. Deaths: Thomas Cranmer, Archbishop...
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NO-HEADLINE
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London; 3/28/1997; 152 words
; ...Maximovich Peshkov), novelist, 1868; Dame Flora Robson, actress, 1902; John Langstraw Austin, philosopher, 1911. Deaths: Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky, composer, 1881; Virginia Woolf (Adeline Virginia Stephen), writer, 1941; Sergei Vasilievich Rachmaninov, composer...
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The Face of Russia
Magazine article from: USA Today; 3/1/1999; ; 349 words
; ...observing the revival of religious imagery along with the renaissance of authors Nikolay Gogol and Aleksandr Pushkin, composer Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky, and film director Sergei Eisenstein. Depictions of Gogol and Pushkin's work, enacted live, via movies and animation...
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Brooding, nearly brilliant `Boris'.(Arts)(Opera)
Newspaper article from: The Washington Times; 2/21/1999; ; 700+ words
; ...Boris Godunov, playing at the Kennedy Center's Opera House, is not an evening of light entertainment. Somber and brooding, Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky's operatic masterpiece moves at a stately pace, strongly reminiscent of Feodor Dostoevski's long and gloomy...
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Musical
Newspaper article from: The Topeka Capital-Journal; 11/5/2000; ; 700+ words
; ...Portrait" by Aaron Copland, and "Pictures at an Exhibition" by Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky. Tickets are $24.50, $19.50 and $15.50 ($20...orchestra's conductor and music director, was assembled around Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky's work, "Pictures at an Exhibition." The composition...
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The Face of Russia.(Review)
Magazine article from: USA Today (Magazine); 3/1/1999; ; 360 words
; ...observing the revival of religious imagery along with the renaissance of authors Nikolay Gogol and Aleksandr Pushkin, composer Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky, and film director Sergei Eisenstein. Depictions of Gogol and Pushkin's work, enacted live, via movies and animation...
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Night of Russian fireworks
Newspaper article from: The Malay Mail; 2/28/2006; ; 690 words
; ...much more passionate music than that of Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky. Not to be left out is the energetic and dark music of Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky. That is exactly what awaits you at the Dewan Filharmonik PETRONAS (DFP) on March 14, 2006, when the Malaysian...
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ANNIVERSARIES
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London; 3/28/1995; 197 words
; ...Peshkov), novelist, 1868; Dame Flora Robson, actress, 1902. Deaths: Publius Helvius Pertinax, Roman emperor, murdered 193; Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky, composer, 1881; Virginia Woolf (Adeline Virginia Stephen), author and critic, 1941; Sergei Vasilievich Rachmaninov...
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Cuadros de una Exposicion: Los titeres se van de 'pinta'.(Primera Fila)
Newspaper article from: Reforma (México D.F., México); 1/14/2005; 329 words
; ...Cuentan que allá por 1839, luego de ver una exposición póstuma de su amigo Viktor Hartmann, el músico Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky, uno de los más destacados compositores rusos, realizó una pieza para piano a la que llamó Cuadros...
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KU symphony orchestra to play Mussorgsky work
Newspaper article from: The Topeka Capital-Journal; 11/19/1999; ; 338 words
; ...Maria Alexandra Eiras, Lawrence postgraduate piano student, performing the piano suite "Pictures form an Exhibition" by Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky. Following her solo performance, the KUSO will play Maurice Ravel's orchestration of the 16-part Mussorgsky...
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