Saturday, June 1, 2024

June 1 - Mikhail Glinka (The Musical Birthday Series, 6th Annual Cycle)

Previous posts for June 1st will be found here: Mikhail Glinka (2019), Carl Bechstein (2020), Nelson Riddle (2021)Georg Muffat; Ferdinando PaĆ«r (2022), and Joseph Elsner (2023)

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Mikhail Glinka (1 June [O.S. 20 May] 1804 – 15 February  [O.S. 3 February] 1857) is often regarded as the father of the distinctively Russian style of composition.

 

 


 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

On Mikhail Glinka; or, OMG

Glinka's orchestral composition Kamarinskaya (1848) was said by Tchaikovsky to be "the acorn from which the oak" of later Russian symphonic music grew. -- Wikipedia

The overture to Ruslan and Ludmila is a favorite curtain-raiser, the kind of bonbon  that tends to begin seasons or serve as [an] encore after a splendid evening. — arts.ucdavis.edu/post/glinka-overture-ruslan-and-ludmila



Join with me today and drink a

Vodka toast to Mikhail Glinka!

The man of whom Tchaikovsky spoke,

And said, “from him the mighty oak

Of Russian symphonies had grown,”

Yet, in the West, he is unknown

Excepting for a piece or two

Which orchestras will sometimes do

To get the evening’s concert started

With something lively and light-hearted,

 

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