The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-12-26
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made known. ON Thursday II
according to the present
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Borodin's prince
Igor" will he produced ut the Metro
politan Opera House. 1t is a work Of
later origin than Moussorgsky's Boris
Godunov" and Of a different type. Tue
was one OF the famous
Five" OF whom Balaklrev. Cesar Cui,
Moussorgsky and Rimsky-korsal'ov
were the other four. They ~propounded
certain doctrines Of dramatic music.
to which certainly Moussorgsky. and
according to all accounts Borodin. did
not adhere.
But this II n matter which may
~properly be set aside for discussion
after the production OF the opera. At
present We may briefly concern our
selves with Borodin's work. his ma
terials and his story. Before proceed
ing to consider them we may bestow
n moments attention upon h man.
lie was one Of several Russians who
have unjustly been deprecated as mere
amateurs or di%lettantcs because they
were not exclusively musicians. hut
these mon in the course of n quite
natural development became masters
a, callinrs
They were indeed neither Leonardo
a, vincis NOR Goctbcs. but possibly
they could claim intellectual kinshlp
with our own Arthur Sherburne Hardy.
wh. 4, q, m,thcm,tici.u and n novel
,,,. AR Johu Alden C%arpeuter. who IL
h,.;,.ss man and , MIR.
ILL.,, a.. NOT, m amateur non in the
- =, alton r,, vii tho writer of
Adventures in "A P~erambulator' he
N..,., -, ,,,sic,l d,le,tante. So.
49,, I,ar,di, u,s n nhvsician. an
W.. .N" ~, osa,,,,r, m ardent ad-
a.. ~
.au,., and r,u,der of a melical
49, o., ,,,,, IL NO, irconsisten,
-, ,;., ,,.in, IN . MAGE among we'll
-, a,I ,,,,,o5 c,,n posers of music.
b,,o heep praised
,aI ,,,.ic;,ns pnuhtless
sa, .ra, H. JiJ moi finish ..I'rince
-, -. H., ,,h,rs had IN complcte
49, ciyer some ground for
tho nation that he vas incompetent to
,na n",t rho truth is that the
~" - .,u,tsh.d hy reason of
80 1T u.r. is what Rimsky-
,,a,o ,h,ut tho matter:
..,i, ,,,,niu- of February
a., ,So- u,,s ,i,,,cJ hy Mr.. Stassow.
vim a strange expression
bic ,,co ~, Won know he said.
y" ne, i, 5c,d" Trc thought
~. mno,Isrcj .priucc Igor mt once
W r.. ,ha
go, a., tho GRAVEYARD of Ncwsky
Monastery took hold of the manu-
.,rin, Win Glazounoff and We decided
a.. nonnlo,o II
..S.ycr,l partS. such as the first
.norus ,hc dance of Polorctsy, the
tp,l ,horus. the part Of Vladimir,
the ,irs of kouchuL. ko~nChdLorh"
uore alreoly finished and or
n,os,r,,,d othcr numbers were
~orol, in the form of n piano score,
,na many nar,s did not exist. For the
..,opd and third acts there was MOI,
oron +. lphretto-merely some unfin-
,.hed s,nrs and sketches. But | knew
-,ou tho design of these acts. ha' irg
discussed II so often with the COM
nnser
.Jeast finished If all was the thlid
ar, We decided that GiaZounoff
.h,rId finish the third act and the
o,sr,ure which the had
c,ovod so often. while | did the rest
Tbo story ,f "prince Igor belongs
,o tho eleventh century and was made
tho subject of n great Russian epic-a
go, ~ III. ancient chronicle type.
The historical period is that OF the
~rincin.litio The Russians at this
,,me we're moi favorable Ia the ByZan .
,,pe convention of political unity. but
,.anad tn the scandinavian idea Of par
ti,iop Smolensk Kiev Tcheringov
and . dozcu other municipalities CON
.,i,r,od Prussia The Grand Prince
80 Eior Of tho purik family was lord
naramo,,nt of Russia.
Igo, was one of the Subordinate
nrinces and tho poloysti were a Turk
~ ,riha movinp westward with the
wrsn.p, vuyo of that great migration
,,,m central Asia which had intro
dncod tho ~ermunizatio of modern
U,rono and suent the Jregs of the Ro-
80 L,r,nire T., tho victorious feet Of
49, .cna,rro Of cad Atti,a the IIIn.
-, -. .nr Vladimir who made
c., e., "a ,,a,, tho. dva NO..
Y.,,.,,i ard ,ho,,t his exnloits
..,,a.,n aa,horoa tho usuaI halo
""u =, T., ni,b ,hose mat.
VI '"., =" 80" 5oaI, ,,a f,,,p
'ers NAT 'he Wv" 'P'
tnem poroo'' eo".", L.