Vassar Orchestra: Polovetsian Dances (Borodin) part 1/2 Video Clips. Duration : 6.97 Mins.
This is the Vassar College Orchestra and Choir performing one dance from Borodin's Polovestsian Dances on April 29, 2006. A friend was taking this video for me and you can tell her arm gets a little tired of holding the camera up. But at least you can see the trombones that whole time! (Part 1 of 2)
Borodin- Polovtsian dance Video Clips. Duration : 2.55 Mins.
Borodin was born in Saint Petersburg, the illegitimate son of a Georgian noble, Luka Gedevanishvili (Georgian: ლუკა სიმონის ძე გედევანიშვილი) and a 24-year-old Russian woman, Evdokia Konstantinovna Antonova (Евдокия Константиновна Антонова). The nobleman had him registered as the son of one of his serfs, Porfiry Borodin. As a boy he received a good education, including piano lessons.He entered the Medico--Surgical Academy in 1850, which was later home to Ivan Pavlov, and pursued a career in chemistry. On graduation he spent a year as surgeon in a military hospital, followed by three years of advanced scientific study in western Europe.Borodin met Mily Balakirev in 1862. While under Balakirev's tutelage in composition he began his Symphony No. 1 in E flat major; it was first performed in 1869, with Balakirev conducting. In that same year Borodin started on his Symphony No. 2 in B minor, which was not particularly successful at its premiere in 1877 under Eduard Nápravník, but with some minor re-orchestration received a successful performance in 1879 by the Free Music School under Rimsky-Korsakov's direction. In 1880 he composed the popular symphonic poem In the Steppes of Central Asia. Two years later he began composing a third symphony, but left it unfinished at his death; two movements of it were later completed and orchestrated by Glazunov.In 1869 Borodin became distracted from initial work on the second symphony by preoccupation with the opera ...
Tags: Music, Borodin, Prince Igor, The Five, Classical music
