tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3991721412361909265.post5820506062111771635..comments2024-03-27T14:01:25.896-04:00Comments on Daniel Stephen Johnson: Nothing Is Better than Prince IgorDan Johnsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02379073869436839786noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3991721412361909265.post-61475245795819360682010-08-13T12:59:11.106-04:002010-08-13T12:59:11.106-04:00Daniel, does this DVD include the ending Gergiev b...Daniel, does this DVD include the ending Gergiev brought to the US in 1998 in which the formula happy ending is dropped to make place for a lovely, etherial transformation of Igor and all his people who have been slaughtered by the Polovetsi from the dead on earth to the blessed in the afterworld? It was a strikingly beautiful finale.Willhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14279473113628377106noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3991721412361909265.post-81152630028760264592010-01-06T12:34:10.023-05:002010-01-06T12:34:10.023-05:00Brutus to "Just Another Greg":
The answ...Brutus to "Just Another Greg":<br /><br />The answer to the question of PuzzlePage is:<br /><br />Ígorj Fjódorovich StravínskiyAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3991721412361909265.post-30545025440815316352009-03-18T16:11:00.000-04:002009-03-18T16:11:00.000-04:00There's a perfect adaptation of Prince Igorhttp://...There's a perfect adaptation of Prince Igor<BR/><BR/>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ChoRfYn5qP4<BR/><BR/>I thinks its by a japanese ballet (not sure)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3991721412361909265.post-3261500925207991722007-09-11T12:25:00.000-04:002007-09-11T12:25:00.000-04:00PuzzlePage: What famous twentieth-century composer...PuzzlePage: What famous twentieth-century composer was named after Prince Igor's title character by his opera-singer father?<BR/><BR/>For Further Reading: If you'd like to see what opera looks like from the other side of the colonial divide, check out the Mugam operas of Azeri composer Uzeir Hadjibeyov, such as 1908's pathbreaking Leyla i Majnun...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3991721412361909265.post-11875489368329939092007-09-04T00:07:00.000-04:002007-09-04T00:07:00.000-04:00The Igor Tale (alternately, what do they call it.....The Igor Tale (alternately, what do they call it...The Lay of Igor's Campaign, though that's not literal either) is the source of some volume of stultifying academic bickering, though it seems to me the people who dispute its authenticity or indeed find the question compelling may well be all retired now, or in the grave.Maury D'annatohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14136129943169313348noreply@blogger.com