Compact Discoveries 43: From Borodin to Broadway
Series: Compact Discoveries
From: Fred Flaxman
Length: 00:57:56
The Broadway musical "Kismet" was based on themes of the Russian composer Alexandr Borodin. In this hour Fred Flaxman presents songs from the musical paired with the Borodin originals. The complete script is available here or at www.compactdiscoveries.com.
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The Broadway musical "Kismet" was based on themes of the Russian composer Alexandr Borodin. In this hour Fred Flaxman presents songs from the musical paired with the Borodin originals. The complete script is available here or at www.compactdiscoveries.com.
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Thank You, Fred Flaxman. !!This is a lovelly program ! Congratulations ! When I was younger I used to sang in a Symphonic Corus and was very intrigued by the fact that somebody had stoled the themes of the Prince Igor, from the Polvectician Dances, particularly "Stranger in Paradise". Today I prefer to think that Rigth and Forrest just "borrowed" all the themes, because they transformed them in something also beautiful and certainly helped the western world to know better the great Borodin. I do not know what the composer would say, perhaps he never heard about the Broadway musicals.... |
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- promo (43fromborodintobroadwaypromo.mp3)
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Posted on February 14, 2010 at 03:17 PM | Permalink
20th Century Fox exposed the "loan" back in the fifties
Together with "The Robe", as far as I know the first cinemascope movie to be produced by Fox, back in the fifties , an orchestral presentation of the Polovetzian Dances, duly identified as being of Borodin's authorship was given. Perhaps some mudical director in that movie company decided to embarass the Broadway copycats by exposing the original score