How To Use Mussorgsky In A Sentence
- True, the opera can seem talky despite Mussorgsky's eloquent song-speech techniques, but with the right singing actors, a gallery of fascinating characters comes vividly to life.
- Debussy stands with Mussorgsky, Mahler, Reger, and Strauss among the great progenitors of Modernism.
- In his footnote to The Philosophy of Modern Music, which Rosen comments upon, Adorno establishes a relationship — problematic, it has to be admitted — between the supposed "premodern" and "precapitalistic" character of Russian society and some "traits" of a presumed "pre" - subjectivism ‚ in the work of Mussorgsky and Dostoevsky (Adorno admired both). Adoring Adorno
- There followed a new piece by Thomas Larcher "What Becomes" which behaved like a curtain-raiser to Mussorgsky's Pictures being full of Mussorgskian rhetoric and declamation and the odd plucked and scraped piano string to assert its "nowness". The Independent - Frontpage RSS Feed
- The notes say nothing about the orchestration, which to my ears sounds like Shostakovich's 1940 instrumentation rather than Mussorgsky's rougher original.
- But then again, some of these same people will probably mention Sviatoslav Richter's famous recording, a benchmark for the Mussorgsky for years - and that certainly reaches out and grabs you by the scruff of the neck.
- Mussorgsky of the Russian folk music, vocal development of the nation has made important contributions.
- SYMPHONY OF OAK PARK AND RIVER FOREST Jay Friedman, conductor, with tubaist Gene Pokorny and the Momenta Performing Arts Company in a family concert (Kleinsinger, Mussorgsky). Chicago Reader
