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
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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Isnard Penha Brasil
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
Elim Dutra
Posted on February 13, 2010 at 08:18 PM | Permalink
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....